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Dave Massey, P Wesson fished with and as guest of Shaun Watkins. Weather overcast most of day. Shaun caught 13 Grayling and 4 trout, mostly french nymph method. Quite a few Grayling caught on dries pale watery dun klinks and light olives being successful. 4 large grayling caught from bend pool at tail, from opposite bank by Shaun on nymphs 1 in excess of 2 1/2lb Pete and Dave had 10 Grayling and 1 salmon Parr using mainly dries. River quite low and clear. Thanks to Shaun for an enjoyable day

4 Trout, 23 Grayling, 1 Other

Tough going today. We struggled to find the grayling until finally coming across a good shoal of rising fish in the Penlanole Pool later in the afternoon. By then the olive hatch had finished and it looked like they were taking a tiny chironomid which, of course, neither of us could match!
A few fish to dries, a couple NZ style and some to nymphs on a French leader.
As always, it was a pleasure to fish Craig Llyn. Thanks to Shaun the owner for allowing us and others to enjoy this special beat.

4 Trout, 5 Grayling

A lovely day with fish rising in the afternoon to a small but prolonged LDO hatch from 1-3 p.m. Before that, grayling from 14-16" were taken in some of the deeper waters, Czech nymphing with two heavy bugs. During the olive hatch, 10-14" grayling and one 14" BT took small dark olive and pale HE Duck's Duns. A thoroughly enjoyable day albeit totally eclipsed by Saturday's showing, French nymphing by Shaun (great work on improving the beat Shaun) and P from Abercynon (a Welsh International I understand) - I need to get my head around this French Nymphing stuff for sure!! Well done guys.

1 Trout, 10 Grayling

Fished here again on Sunday as a guest of Shaun. Also fished some of Richards beat upriver. Many thanks both to Shaun & Richard ! River quite low and clear. Started with the French leader and nymphs up at Bend pool, 5 oos trout and 1 grayling from here. Worked our way steadily down the beat, taking fish on nymphs, and occasionally dries when some were spotted rising. Did not fish the whole beat, stopped where Shaun has done some work improving the flow on the far side - this has worked well too ! as we took 5 good sized grayling and Shaun had a 2lb + trout here. Moving upriver to Richards beat - very impressed with the mix of water types here too, took more good sized grayling, and a few trout too. Finished off when poor light made detecting takes difficult. Another brilliant day on 2 fantastic beats, many thanks again guys. Total prob around 35 / 40 trout & grayling to 2lbs+.

35 Trout, 40 Grayling

what a lovely beat this is!! as I've never fished this before I did not venture out to deep as my waders are rubber soled and as the write up states felt soles are a must. Smallest grayling 10 inches and the largest which was the first of the day a brute of 20 inches all the rest between 13-18 inches. Half fell for duo tungsten beads fished very deep and the rest to size 16 olive cdc dry patterns. Some of these pools are extremely deep and will most definitely hold some very sizable fish. I hooked and lost one on the dry which was also very big. a stunning and very well kept fishery, a pleasure to fish.

15 Grayling

No surface activity on arrival and nymphs were ignored by all but two out of season brownies. One to hand at about a pound. Another self releasing mid air. From late mid morning there was a steady trickle of flies coming off and occasional rises. Grayling measured to 15 1/2 inches were taken on dries mainly and spiders (3) largely from the middle parts of turbulent pools. Despite the afternoon warmth takes dried up after 4.30 although rises continued on the flat water from tiny fish taking smuts. Another sizeable brown obliged but was lost as he swung downstream.
Another enjoyable day. Greeted by red kites wheeling low over the river, spotting bats on the drive home, not another soul seen all day; just what fishing should be about.

1 Trout, 15 Grayling

Despite good water conditions I fished through the beat once and didn't see or connect with any salmon. A very nice well maintained beat.

Fly fishing, nymph, wet and dry fly, catch and release.

6 Trout, 3 Grayling

First time fishing this beat and was impressed at how well maintained it was. Parking and access to the river was very easy but it rained all day and the river was roaring down at pace. River still rising when I decided to call it a day at about 4pm and met up with another group who again had no
luck. We all decided that the day was a wash-out. We tried but were beaten by the weather conditions. Will be back as this is a very interesting beat.

Fished for 2 hours in the morning from 9 am. Fished 3 hours in evening from 4 pm. All fish caught on North Country Spiders. 1 Grayling of 1.5 lbs. Really enjoyable fishing with great surroundings.

2 Trout, 4 Grayling