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Picturesque setting, lovely area but not many fish apparent. Caught nothing but enjoyed the experience immensely.

A beautiful stretch of river with some lovely pools. Had some some nice trout and grayling up to a pound and also dropped a few nice ones. Fished New Zealand style and had the majority of the fish on the dry fly. Well worth a visit to this beat. You definitely need either felt or studied soles though to get the best out of this stretch. Fished all the named pools twice and had fish from them each time. Finished the day off watching an otter in one of the top pools.

6 Trout, 6 Grayling

Three Grayling to 17" and a nice trout to 15" were the picks of the day. Heavy nymphs in morning then klink & dink around midday and a few on the dries prospecting in the afternoon. Beat in fantastic condition as usual. Love this fishery. Thank you.

6 Trout, 10 Grayling

This is the first time we have fished the Wye and were impressed with the online booking system and detailed map of the beat.
River conditions were good, with clear water dropping from the previous days heavy rain. Saw and cast to a sizable brown trout in Bend Pool, but no luck.
Fished the entire beat with occassional knocks but no fish rising. The long gliding run below Abercymryn Pool didn't fullfil its trouty or grayling potenial, with my one and only trout of the day yielding to a weighted grey shrimp.
Upper Craig Llyn Pool produced the only other trout of the day caught on a gold head pheasant tail nymph.
Look forward to trying other beats in the future.

2 Trout

Sunny, river dropping, perfect conditions. 6 brown trout to 12", 5 grayling to 17". Also had 2 at 15", all on dry flies. Nice day.

6 Trout, 5 Grayling

Trout to 13 inches, grayling to 10 inches.

13 Trout, 2 Grayling

Bright sunshine today and the river had dropped. WAter gin clear. 1 brown trout 10", 1 grayling 14".

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Heavy rain but river clear and rising. 7 brown trout to 11". 4 grayling to 17"

7 Trout, 4 Grayling

Was around 10am on location. Did use a 5wt 9ft and caught beautiful brown trout and grayling (most of good size and healthy). Used several different dry flies during the day. Around 3pm until 7pm it rained and became more difficult to catch. In the evening it was dry again and only in the first hour they where raising once in a while. Beautiful location and easy to move along.

7 Trout, 2 Grayling

This beat certainly lives up to its description: it is an absolutely stunning stretch of upper Wye. The rain that had been threatened for overnight didn't seem to have amounted to much and the river was still pretty low and clear. There was some cloud cover, but most of the day was bright and warm so we, like the fish, were looking for some shade.
It was very much an on-off day. There was a little flurry of activity at around 10.00 and another in the late afternoon. We were unable to stay for what might well have been a much better late evening. Even when they were active, the fish seemed in a very picky mood. They weren't taking flies off the surface and most of our fish came to weighted nymphs. We had six trout and three grayling between us. The best trout was just over a pound and the best fish of the day a beautiful grayling of around a pound and three quarters - worth the drive just for that fish really!

6 Trout, 3 Grayling