Feedback & Reports

After helping to cut back the Crai stream earlier this spring I was keen to see how it fished, and casting access was much improved. The Crai valley was ignoring the warm temperatures around the UK and gave me a cold blast in my face as I pushed upstream. However, there were fish showing to a steady hatch and I did manage to rise a few to my winged olive pattern but I kept nothing on. Looking forward to a big weekend trip later in May when I hope things will warm up both literally and on the fishing front too :-)

No fish caught. River high and coloured

Arrived early at this very nice beat in the beautiful Honddu valley. Fished just a couple of hours and managed three small trout, best was 13", two took a ptn and one to a dry emerger. River had good flow and was very clear.

Would have been better to have started later in the day and fished through. Did not see a hatch or any surface activity part from the one that took my dry!

3 Trout

Still too high and pushing through at a fair pace, but i’m Impatient so tried anyway. One wbt to goldhead.

1 Trout

Good water height and clarity. Saw one fish on beat 6 but not a lot else!

1 Trout

A few hours spent covering spookey trout on a breezy river before the journey home. One broken rod, one broken wading stick , one dunking and one 9/10 inch wbt. Oh it's great to be back ! Lol !

1 Trout

1 trout 10 ins caught on pt nymph.

1 Trout

5 Trout

good hatch at my arrival around 10am, but no sign of a fish raising. Just landed a decent brown trout with heavy nymph, and nothing else. Water still pretty cold.

1 Trout

I found it difficult today, the weather was ok, typical April sunshine and light showers, quite breezy too. The river was as a healthy level and pushing through very strongly.
Spent most of the morning waiting and watching for a hatch as I was confident there’d be one around midday but midday came and went. Then around 1pm a few small grey upwings started to appear, they weren’t big enough or in sufficient numbers to get the trout excited where I was so I moved on until I noticed a small rise in a slower deeper part of the river, a bit of very stealthy wading had me in position and able to present a small dry to the odd rising fish, all of which took my offering but sadly I missed 3 and lost one, then the small hatch was over and no more fish were seen.
A pleasant enough day even with the constant scream and drone of motorbikes with a little bit of action but no fish landed.