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River looked perfect but very difficult and no rising fish or visible hatch except a few BWO.

3 Trout, 3 Grayling, 7 Other

All fish caught on size 16 black or grey dry flies - largest fish 13 inches. Staying at Craig Llyn Estate cottages - comfortable and very convenient for fishing and touring around Wales. Excellent and simple booking service - all completed over the phone and permit sent by email to my mobile.

4 Grayling

8 and 14.5 inches.

2 Trout

An excellent afternoon/early evening's fishing on my favourite beat. River very slightly coloured and the Rhayader Gauge at 9'' , pretty much perfect.
The Sedge hatches were pretty much constant though the time I was there, and at times incredible. However, as is the case on this part of the river, very few fish interested with surface feeding, why I have no idea.
I fished New Zealand Style with an Elk Hair Brown or Yellow Sedge with a small gold head GRHE with a pink thorax (deadly for Grayling and the Trout love them too) fished about a foot and a half deep. This set up works well through the beat, with very little need to change depth, in fact I didn't all day!
Saw 2 trout feeding close to the near side of the channel and took one first cast, which came off close to the net, about a pound and a half. After this the fish kept coming, mainly 8-10 inch grayling but a few bigger ones, the best being a fish of 18 inches, beautiful dark coloured fish which didn't fight much until it saw me and the awaiting net, after which it decided to try and get to Builth Wells!
Moved upstream targeting pocket water and the many features such as single rocks which offer a perfect hiding place, taking grayling and the odd trout.
Then got to a spot, which I feel is one of the best on the whole Wye (I'm not giving that one away!), where I have caught many sizable trout up to 3.5 lb. On this occasion, the resident was a trout of 2lb, actually I little disappointed as I had hoped for much bigger.
All in all, a great days sport, probably more fish than I normally take here, but no real specimens, which was a surprise considering the amount of fish caught. Only 3 fish took the dry, one trout and two grayling.

5 Trout, 25 Grayling

Too much sun, too hot, but great scenery. No fish felt or seen. No rises.

Was hoping the heavy showers the day before would have some effect on the river, but it was not to be. Very low and very hot. So, testing to say the least. Saw a few feeding, which covering was hard work and pretty fruitless until a grayling of about 1lb took my tungsten headed GRHE fished deep. Had another slightly smaller later in the day. Oh, and a trout, a full 2ins!

1 Trout, 2 Grayling

One ten inch brownie within the first few minutes followed quickly by a six inch grayling. Both caught on beaded PTNs. Thought I was in for a good day but hooked nothing else, other than another small grayling that escaped before I could bring it to hand. Water very clear and warm (18 degrees C), very few fish rising. Maybe try here again in the autumn.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

1 brown trout caught on nymph in the faster pocket water upstream. No fish seen rising.

1 Trout

2 Trout

The river was in perfect condition at 8" on the Ddol Farm guage. Warm, little wind, some sun and some cloud. Some small olives around until mid-morning and fish rising. Had trout and grayling on a small HE emerger - best trout about 14" and grayling 13". Then tried nymphs, duo and emergers until early afternoon but could tempt nothing more. Found some more rising fish sporadically from about 3pm until 7pm with two main pulses of rises. The HE emerger tempted further grayling to 15" (1.25lb) and trout, including a lovely fish of 16"(1.5lb). With no evening rise, the vision of a cool beer dictated I return home! A hard but rewarding day with ten trout and three grayling, all off the top. Lovely stuff!

10 Trout, 3 Grayling