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2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Lovely day on the river started at the top croy caught 3 barbel & a chub quite quickly, moved about halfway down had another barbel & 3 chub, finished up at the bottom until dusk had another barbel & a couple of Chub, biggest barbel around 7-8lb mark, all fish caught on robin red pellet fished with a small feeder really is a beautiful stretch of river will be back

5 Barbel, 6 Chub

No fish on the day

First visit to Craig Lyn and indeed the Wye as a whole. Very nice beat with easy parking and access from the car park in the caravan park. The water was clear but slightly up due to overnight rain with plenty of good looking water to fish through. Reasonable number of upwings and stoneflies coming off when the sun was out but only saw a couple of rises all day. Had a brief go with fishing the dry blind but didn't get a response. Most productive method was nymphing with a small shrimp on the dropper and a tungsten beaded nymph on the dropper Euro nymphing style. Didn't catch a huge number of Grayling but half a dozen of those that I did were certainly over a 1lb with the best probably around the 1.75lbs mark. A word of warning though, be very careful when wading as large parts of the riverbed are bedrock can be very slippy! Will certainly return at some point as it was a very enjoyable beat!

3 Trout, 8 Grayling

river in good nick and weather fairly warm/sunny with a few showers. fish not obliging though - just 2 chub up to 1.25 lb

2 Chub

lovely day on the river which looked good. even the weather not too bad. tried most areas but nothing seen and nothing caught.

Very slow afternoon on the Lucky Stones swim. Few bites early on but died a death. One single 3lb chub and some lost tackle as usual to the rocks.

1 Chub

2 Trout, 10 Grayling

Lovely stretch, great access to swims.

All fish taken on either 8mm pellet or 14mm dumbbells with feeder and pellet loose feed

4 Barbel, 15 Chub

Arrived 14:00 to find river level 0.27 M at Hereford Bridge and clear with good flow of water after previous days rain. Upstream wind and plenty of leaves making life interesting.
Fished with 12` rod with floating line and medium sink polyleader and small double cascade courtesy of John Symonds
Fished most of the beat including Lady Alexander`s until rain set in about 17:00 when reluctantly packed in.
One of my favourite beats on the Wye and can’t wait to return