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A short hour and a bit early evening with a bit of activity and a small brown trout to show for my visit. A nice bit of water with a kingfisher to enhance the trip.

1 Trout

Great beat, only had a few hours so fished the runs towards the bottom of the beat and a quick scoot halfway up the beat.

12 Trout

Missed two rises to a Klink and lost one on a pt nymph.

4 Trout,2 on a para adams and 2 on nymph. A good hatch of various upwings from 13:00 including some sizeable flies maybe Turkey brown? The fish showed no interest with only a couple of rises seen.

4 Trout

Social media seems to have been plastered with photos of large Usk, Taff and Teifi trout in the past week so I thought the upper Wye might be worth a try. I've only fished Craig Llyn before in late summer and autumn so it was nice to be there on a lovely spring day. There were only a few fish rising but having struggled in the morning using NZ style, I switched to very small cdc shuttlecock emerger with some success.
The numbers weren't huge but this was made up for by some wild browns of superb quality. The biggest went 2.5lbs (weighed in net) but perhaps the most satisfying was a 2-pounder picked up on a parachute Adams while prospecting in the pocket water below the flats. 5 of the others were around the 1-1.5lb mark.

9 Trout

It was a lovely day to be on the river. Probably could have done with a little cloud cover, but it was a pleasant temperature and a reasonable hatch of flies. There were takers of these flies but not that many. I felt a 'hatch' hadn't quite happened and many fish might not have bothered coming to the surface.

I caught several fish, including grayling up to 1lb, and, as per usual, missed many others. One was a decent trout, perhaps 2lb. No salmon seen.

5 Trout, 3 Grayling

Hot and bright sunshine making fish spooky. Only fished dries and some nice hatches although fish not rising too freely. Good, interesting and challenging fishing.

6 Trout

Dry fly and nymph - lots of feeding going on at the mouth of the river flowing in...could not give it much time, so no fish.

It was a beautiful day on an amazing stretch of river. The fishing was challenging due to the brightness but we found some trout. Most were caught on nymphs with a couple taking dries. A few large fish were spotted and spooked in very thin water. A fair amount of fly life - hawthorns, upwings and large sedge but not many rising fish.

13 Trout