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River low and clear

6 Trout, 3 Grayling

I invariably come away from Craig Llyn thinking I should have caught more than I did. Today was no exception. An enigma, with pools and runs that scream "fish" at you failing to produce. I covered a lot of water today, and used 3 methods - nymph, duo and dry - but only caught spasmodically. Each method equally successful (or should that be unsuccessful?). Most of the fish came from faster, shallow (and, sometimes, very shallow) water. On the plus side, the Grayling were a good size. Conditions were not ideal - ie a low clear river on a bright day - but other Wye beats have produced for me under these conditions. However, other anglers do well here; so perhaps the problem lies with the thing at the thick end of the rod

1 Trout, 6 Grayling

Both anglers fished top section of beat angler 1 had 1 barbel and lost a another also had 9 chub all caught on lead and pellet angler 2 only had 1 chub on stick float.

1 Barbel, 10 Chub

1 Trout

3 Trout

4 Barbel

Spent most of the day roving and not catching. A few small chub caught on wagglered pellets. 1 Barbel and 2 nice chub caught on rolled meat in the evening. 1st barbel for my fishing buddy!

1 Barbel, 5 Chub

River level still painfully low and bright sunshine, with a severe thunderstorm just as we arrived making some of the wood section unsafe to fish. Extremely difficult conditions!! Fished in the woods near the faster water where we could get access. All fish were caught on the peg near the nearside snag where a small fallen tree has amassed weed and debris down the inside. Caught most of the chub on floating bread. A couple caught on freelined meat / ledgered pellet. Caught an 8lb barbel on ledgered double pellet late on.

1 Barbel, 13 Chub

4 Barbel

2 Trout