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4 Trout

First look at this beat - mainly the section downstream of the bridge, where I found one decent pool, containing some large but uncooperative trout, and otherwise rather skinny water, at least in the present drought conditions. A fall of spinners towards evening brought some activity only from par. Like other beats this one is desperately in need of a flush out and a bit of a prune. The algae makes even the shallow wading treacherously slippery.

Blank all day - not a sign of the "finny tribe". There was too much water and the flow was too fast. They had all resorted to their favourite resting places. I couldn't find these. The small pools were also moving (too) fast.
Not possible to fish upstream from the bottom pool as there are a series of impassible sheep/goat wood fences (immovable as they have been jammed - intentionally (branches locked at the top) ??).

Good flow but clear. Good hatch and rises. My first time on dry fly (a couple of hours) - caught two 9 inches on para adams. Nice spot. Stayed at the Tanners' Arms - nice stay/food.
Called in to Fishtec just off the Brecon by-pass. Ceri kindly sorted out my rod problem - shop worth a visit.
Getting on and some waters round here a challenge re. access. They should send local SAS trainees to try these - a few might succeed!

2 Trout

Water extremely low which made things very challenging as very limited water movement. 1 nice trout caught and a number of other large ones disturbed including one of 3 to 4lb which I mistook for a salmon at first!

1 Trout

Nil

Lovely stretch of river but very few fish seen.

Fished two Crai beats today - Danycraig in the morning and Upper Crai after lunch. Both fished on 3WT with dry fly - Adams Para or Klinkhammer. I found the two beats quite different. Not much action below the bridge at Danycraig but hooked into 4 WBT above the bridge in slow pools. The 4 fish were between 10" and 14" but am I allowed to tell you about the one that got away? Bent my 3WT double and made several line stripping runs before it broke the line at the hook just as I was about to land it - it had to be 18"-20" fish and would have been a PB - shame. So Danycraig has some big fish in it. Upper Crai gave up 9 WBT and by contrast these were generally much smaller fish although included 3 or 4 at around 10". Very pleasant day fishing in a lovely valley. Either beat is a great half-day.

4 Trout

Fished this beat and had an hour in the Upper Crai beat. Both lovely stretches of river with plenty of fly life and rising fish; however, I feel most of the rising fish at the Upper Crai beat were salmon parr, of which I caught several. Did see lots of 8-10inch trout but could only tempt one.
Dannycraig beat appeared to have a smaller population of fish, but the ones seen were of a good average size; one was at least 2-3lb! Sadly only seen it as it bolted past my feet but a higher fish for such a stream. Again, a few fish rising, but with the river so clear they were easily spooked by my clumsy casting.
May have to return in search of that trout again.

1 Trout, 5 Other

Not much fishing done due to downpour. When the thunder started it was time to stop for fear of lightning.