Feedback & Reports

4 hours in the morning on Craig Llyn, fishing pocket water with 3 weight brook rods and drys all taken on usual sedges and emergers
Afternoon at Dolgau with many thanks to Richard for fishing his beat. Large hatch of flying red ants carpeted the river with fish rising everywhere in splashy takes. Spent a frustrating hour trying to match the hatch. Yellow Greenwell spider in tan and tupsley indispensable were the only flies that worked. Tried all other patterns with no success. Should have had a lot of fish but still looking for the pattern to match that hatch.

11 Trout, 9 Grayling

First time on this beat and not a very successful day, did get to meet the beat owner however, a very amiable gent who took the time to have a chat and put me right on a few things, wish I had met him earlier in the day. Thank you.

1 Trout, 1 Grayling

Not the days fishing we expected. We were looking forward to a days trout fishing but the river was pushing fairly hard with intermittent rain and wading was hard if not dangerous. I am in the process of learning to spey cast so in the afternoon, I decided it would be a good spot to practice. I tackled up with a size 14 low water salmon fly. I ended the day having hooked a Salmon, caught three lovely Grayling, the largest must have been near three pounds. Not a bad practice session!! All fish safely returned. More work needed on the casting but can't be doing to much wrong. A day to remember. Thank you.

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

Two grayling caught on a wet fly and released, both about 1lb.
River conditions very good and where the bank had been cleared it made access much easier.
It would be helpful to be able to see beat maps before booking the beat, it is only the fact that we know this part of the river that made it relatively easy to decide where to fish.

2 Trout

Dropping quite quickly and quite coloured but fishable. Some of the bankside growth "escaping" especially Signal Pool and below on this extremely pretty piece of water

Good day of fishing, level low and clear, bit windy, little surface activity. Most of fish we had on wet fly in fast water. Very nice grayling, up to 16inch, strong and hard fighting fish.
Access to the river fairly easy, only car park need to be sorted, I would suggest to park at the cafe car park if possible.

8 Trout, 8 Grayling

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

We fished this beat as part of a weekend trip, the weather wasn't particularly kind to us. The beat is a mixture of glides, riffles and pools - some of which are extremely deep. A cold start to the day saw no rises and proceeded with nymph. At lunch we noticed a few olives coming off and the fish responded in the faster water. 2 fish caught both to jingler dry fly.

2 Trout

Weather and water still unseasonably warm, so brown trout still feeding voraciously. Unintentionally caught 2, both released. Despite fishing deep on the bottom (losing many flies in the process) no grayling caught.

2 Trout

What an amazing days fishing on the Dolgau beat on the Wye, me and my friend Shaun fished as guests of the owner who kindly let us on this beautiful part of the Wye, as we were fishing we were lucky enough to see 8 salmon jumping throughout the day and truly spectacular thing when they leap out just a few yards away. This is an amazing river to fish with really good fish stocks and amazing scenery. I had a grayling knocking on 2lbs, a lovely fish caught on a CDC red tag variant fished under a klinkhammer with about 1 1/2 meters between them. I can truly recommend this location if you want to catch nice grayling. I believe the owner rents out accommodation if you fancied making a few days of it.

8 Trout, 26 Grayling