Feedback & Reports

Fished from around 9am until 11.30am, finding two feisty little hungry trout in the lower half of the beat. Dropped in to the top half under the electric fence and played around in the deeper water, watching two chub patrol around whilst tempting one smallish fish (didn’t see what it was....I suspect a small chub) to a nymph twitched back under the trees. An interesting beat, with the lovely backdrop of the old mill and sound of the water wheel in motion. Delightful!

2 Trout

Tried hard in the faster water on both float and feeder but fish not having it, plenty around showing but not feeding.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

More overcast today, but sun kept breaking through at times.
Landed 5 barbel, all around 7lbs but didn't weigh them as wanted to minimise the time spent out of the water and they weren't big enough to warrant weighing anyway. Lost 1 fish.
All returned strongly.
All on pellet feeder.

5 Barbel

Slowly worked up the whole beat with a small para adams, eventually landed 6 at 7" to 11", and of course missed or touched several more. The fish still seem in good condition, though the river is very low. Nice day in the hills.

6 Trout

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

A strong north wind made French nymphing difficult for most of the afternoon but weighted nymphs below an indicator was very effective. Trout were easy to find in the mid section at the end of the Leaning Willow and downstream whilst the grayling were elusive everywhere until early evening. The water is horribly warm but there's plenty of aerated water on the beat and all fish went back well.

12 Trout, 7 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

30 Pike

1 Trout