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Sunny all day river in good condition however extremely difficult to get bites in spite of using several methods.

2 Barbel, 3 Chub, 1 Other

Only fished a short evening session from 4- 8-15, only barbel of 8lb 10oz at 7-30 one other hooked straight after but hook pulled out. Groundbait and pellet feeder with 14 mm pellet on hook, excellent fishery with plenty of swim choice and good access but the hill down to start of the fishery is a killer.

1 Barbel

1 Trout

Lovely day though fishing was a struggle In the morning with only two grayling from down at the bottom of the beat. Fished back Up the river with nothing doing until a 15 minute spell had 3 grayling and a trout all above 18 inches. Then carried on up the beat with nothing else except a few half hearted rises.

About 6 I was faffing around trying to catch some tiddlers in the slow water at top of the beat, contemplating whether it was time to call it a day, when I was tipped off about rising fish back down the bottom so headed back down there. What followed was some of the best of fishing I can recall (in my relatively short time fishing the Wye).

In about 20 minutes I’d had 3 trout up to 17 inches and 2 grayling up to 12 inches as well as hooking and losing another 4. Fantastic!

All caught on various pattern of dry flies and returned safely. The beat is brilliant and well worth a visit at this time of year. Hopefully - weather and lockdown dependant - might be able to squeeze in another day before the year is out.

There was no report at the time of writing to find a name but the tip of fish rising came from the chap who fished the beat yesterday. Thank you very much!

4 Trout, 7 Grayling

Enjoyed my first visit to the Crai. It was never going to be easy on this hot blue day with an
east wind. The river was low and clear. Most of this beat is fairly skinny water with long shallow flats that would have been good for the dry fly had they been populated with rising trout, which they were not, though there was an abundance of fry or minnows. I did find some decent trout rising to a hatch early p.m. in the deepest pool on the beat, but they declined my offering. Lots of wildlife to compensate for the lack of fish with dippers, buzzards, kites and heron. Also a dead fox deposited in the river - to go with the dead sheep encountered by JB in the Llynfi Dulas last Monday!

2 anglers

Started midday in glorious weather again.

CL baited a swim to return to later and then had a wander and fished a swim on the feeder for the afternoon. One 8lb plus barbel for him there.

I trotted a swim and had 2 chub and one barbel in the afternoon and then decided to rove around
and do some meat rolling which got me a couple of good barbel from a swim that I made, nobody had been in it this season. Both fish over 8lbs.

CL spent the evening in his prebaited swim and had four nice barbel with three of them over 8lb .

I returned to my original swim and had three more barbel, two of those again over 8lbs.

A very good stamp of fish indeed.

Very enjoyable.

11 Barbel, 2 Chub

Another splendid day watching the river flow by, walked pretty much the whole stretch 2 fish were seen but not caught after numerous casts.

This day was the last of a week fishing on the WUF beats and although all beats were well maintained and beautiful to fish there was distinct lack of fish activity.

One highlight was my fishing buddy Johns new friend the black lab who managed to swim the bridge pool to befriend him for his lunch.

Weather, river and hatches all good but no sign of fish apart from a solitary rise (inaccessible). Plenty of barbed wire!

5 Trout

Quality over quantity today. While the Trout was nothing to write home about, most of the Grayling were in the 12-14 inch bracket. A low river, but still pushing through, and probably just a bit too bright. 2 Grayling from the bottom of the beat on a tungsten nymph. Remaining fish on a Klinkhammer - a mix of casting to rising fish and fishing the stream. Had a chat with the other angler on the beat as I was packing up; a likeable but distracted individual - who had a similar catch to me

1 Trout, 7 Grayling