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Fish taken on nymph. Despite a warm day, not much surface action!

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Very bright warm day with plenty of fly activity, including Mayfly but nil fish seen or caught.

Great day! sun was out and the river looking great. All fish taken from the surface on dry's. Lots of mayfly still about. Most fish in the 15" range. Farmer in field just before the Bridge Inn campsite (on the pub bank) was not pleased to see me on his land! Thank you W&U.

18 Trout

Bright clear day, crystal clear water, no wind. A few midge hatches but nothing else. Hooked two but did not get them to the net.

The river was not as good as I expected. I didn't like it I'm sorry. 2 fish caught and released, but very hard to find. Downstream was a little better. In general, I didn't like this beat.

2 Trout

Total catch: 6 WBT 6-12" and 1 surprise sea trout smolt 7".
Good hatch of Mayfly and olives during the day, but most action was in the evening when there was a terrific Mayfly spinner fall on one of the upper pools.
This is a long beat, but you don't need to venture more than halfway down to find great fishing. The fish are pretty spooky, and generally you only get one chance – so cast carefully!
Will definitely be back.

6 Trout, 1 Other

A truly stunning area and piece of water – was like being in Slovenia in a couple of places. Horrible conditions but we had some great sport. Actually, Dolgau outfished Craig Llyn by a long shot and we saw some huge fish cruising around. You had to be ultra-stealthy, but when you were you could really get them nearly every time. Pool just above the bridge fished really well and we had 8 out of that one alone; 5 browns, 3 grayling. Biggest grayling would have been just under 50cm! The biggest trout wasn’t far off that too.
We picked up some nice fish in almost every pool with a nice mix of trout and grayling. No hatches to speak of, sadly, but we did get some nice fish on the dries with the rest being on small nymphs fished on long and fine leaders.

14 Trout, 7 Grayling

Started around 10am in bright sunshine, light upstream breeze and water low and clear. One or two fish were rising under the cover of overhanging trees but we decided to target the faster water with nymphs until the evening. We landed several fish to 15" which were all very well conditioned (2 taken). I lost another 15" in a fast run but the one that really got away was from a very deep and very fast gutter - I honestly thought I'd hooked bottom until it gradually moved upstream, a couple of shakes of the head and the line parted. This river breaks my heart everytime I fish it - but it keeps me coming back! Fabulous fishing in a fabulous location. Great company and fond memories too.

8 Trout

Got to Upper Bigsweir at 6pm courtesy of three accidents on the M4. Clearly, should be grateful that I was just stuck in the jams and not the cause of any of them!
Fished from 6pm to 10pm. Saw one fish in the Triangles at 9.45pm and covered it but no takes. Nice little stretch and will give it a go again later in the summer.

Saw a couple of fish move but only caught a lovely 3.5lbs sea trout.

1 Other