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Managed three lovely conditioned Trout and a decent Grayling all on the dry from the top of the beat.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

2 x Brown Trout wiht one nearly one and half pound. Fishing well in afternoon on very small black size 18 F-fly.

2 Trout, 6 Grayling

Dale Parsons and Lee Hoard were guided by myself for the day. River at perfect height and fining down. Spate turned grayling and trout on the feed finding plenty of fish in all runs. Used mainly duo and French leader with a few trout taking the stimmy. Big bugs the order of the day. Red letter Day Fishing, hit the water perfect height and falling with a slight peaty colour finding fish relatively easily. Dale and Lee both had specimen fish fighting well in the extra water. Would recommend wading staff to get to the slower pockets where the fish seem to be sitting. Trout feeding hard on the bug. Pattern of the day is in photo to follow. Good angling by Lee and Dale.

25 Trout, 37 Grayling

Fished same stretch as Sunday on an evening ticket from 5 - 9.00pm
River clear, used same methods as Sunday and again every fly in the box. Scaled down to a weight 2 Cortland line, still no success. Also fished river at Rhayader same day with plenty of small trout but no fish from the Craig Llyn beat

Fished full day, rained all day. Fished floating line with nymphs, dries and wet flies, in fact almost used every fly in my box. Not a single take!!!
River was rising due to rain. Fished from Doldowlod caravan park for about a mile downstream

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Nil caught

Lost a decent grayling, caught 3 small and one medium sized brown trout. Missed about 4 big trout on different flies. Mostly dry flies. Big splashes, no takes. Better luck next time!

4 Trout

River temperature increased from a week ago by 3 degrees to 16 degrees c. Evening rise before on the Saturday night saw prolific sedge hatch with trout and grayling feeding heavily. Morning Fishing very slow possibly due to fish feeding heavily the night before and increase in water temperature. Fish caught were not in the fast glides but dropping back into the runs. Heavy bugs the order of the day on French leader and method. Dry fly switched on late afternoon as previous day with trout rising first followed by grayling an hour later. Dry fly was method required late afternoon - out fished French leader 2:1. Flies required for dry were large CDC olive patterns bigger the better seemed to work. Fish moving into the heads of the pools as the day progressed. Mixed bag of trout and grayling - 2 grayling over 18” with all trout in the half to three quarter pound range. No lumpers today.
Cheers Shaun for another fantastic day on Craig Lyn

16 Trout, 17 Grayling

This may be my favourite beat on the Wye so far. It’s just got such a diversity of water.
Unfortunately I fished like a complete muppet and didn’t do the water any justice. Maybe it was my reptile brain kicking in as wading was...challenging , there was enough colour after recent rains that once past my knees I couldn’t clearly see the bottom and spent most of my energy avoiding falling: I failed there too falling three times. I had one brief 30 min spell where I fished ok and most of the fish came in this small window including two nice trout measuring 14 and 15 inches. With water temps at 15.1 degrees they were in great shape.
With hindsight I’d have fished this beat in the afternoon as the river was fining down quickly. By early afternoon when I left wading was much easier.
The fishing gods did grace me with my best Grayling in 10 years. A fat 16 plus-a-tad incher that took as I was trying not to fall over,again, and not paying the slightest attention to my line.
I’ll definitely be back to this stunning beat.

8 Trout, 3 Grayling