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1 Barbel, 1 Other

Fished the evening from 19.00 to 21.00 with temperature still mid Twenties.
Nothing doing with nymphs or dry flies till the last hundred yards below the road.
I spotted a couple of rises and caught 3 Trout of around 8 inches.
Caught on size 14 Deer hair sedge.

3 Trout

Very disappointed this time. The beat is the smallest beat I ever been on the wye, which wouldn’t be an issue if you could fish on it anywhere, but because the water level was very low and there are rock dams every 10m and between them the water level around 10-20 cm, it made our day so painful.
Fished on the third rock dam in the middle of the flow which was around 2m wide - the only part of the beat where the water level was more than 20 cm! Unfortunately the 400 boats/canoes/kayaks couldn’t pass anywhere else..
Not to mention the ceremony just by us where people poured somebody’s ashes into the river.. actually just by where the baits were.. congratulations

Still managed to catch one chub ~1lb, one barbel ~1lb and two boats ~ 240lb between us.
I wouldn’t recommend this beat at all especially not for £25/day/person.
Thanks

1 Barbel, 1 Chub

NJ & JJ Cwmbran
First time back to Craig-Llyn for a long while, struggled all morning picking up one small brown plus a few takes. Around lunchtime we bumped into a gentleman and his wife who promptly set about giving us a lesson in the art of river fishing. What followed for us was incredible. With a change of setup and the correct flies we were catching fish almost every other cast. Many many thanks to Shaun for his time and expert advise. In an hour after lunch we caught eleven grayling, one of which measured 21inches (photo to follow) great day be back soon.
11 Grayling
1 small brown.

1 Trout

3 Trout

ptn just up from the bridge pool

1 Trout

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Good fishing with nymphs in the morning, but suddenly completely cut off during the afternoon until early evening when mostly grayling start raising in the pocket water left. Missed a lot, but still good fishing. On a dry got also this healthy and coloured WBT, more than a pound in weight

7 Trout, 15 Grayling

Difficulty using the parking at the sawmill on the southern end of the fishery.
There were already 2 vehicles parked and the owner/operator of the sawmill was very unhappy about a third vehicle.
So parked at northern spot instead, no problem for me.