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Only fished for a brief hour in the mid-afternoon. Trout rising everywhere. All caught upstream casting using a size 12 klinkhammer and hares ear gold head on the tail. Floating line used. A 1 1/2 lbs sea trout landed from Bridge Pool earlier.
Lovely beat with easy wading on the whole.

20 Trout, 1 Sea Trout, 4 Grayling

River conditions were excellent, 0.53mtr on the gauge at Ross so wading down the middle of the beat below the island was easy. Fished the fly, 4 patterns, through first thing and again after lunch and cast an FC across the deeper sections too. Only the Trout encountered.
A bit of judicious pruning needed to get rid of last years brambles overgrowing the concrete path section would be appreciated but I'm not sure I'll be back before next season.

2 Trout

We started early and finished late, leaving reluctantly at around 19:00 after a great days sport. All the fish were returned, and whilst we usually manage a decent result on this beat, we were surprised at the size of them, - the best at around 2.5 lbs, and the others all 1 lb+.
An extensive hatch through the middle of the beat at around 14:00, and a drop in the wind, allowed us to catch several good fish on a dry - some to an Adams and some to a small grey Humpy - and they really did hammer the flies !
Access to the water is particularly good, and the wading relatively easy, though would certainly suggest a wading staff through some of the deeper runs.
Another fisherman appeared in the early afternoon, and after fishing 'furtively' at the bottom of the beat disappeared when we got closer.
Thanks again to WUF.

11 Trout

We visited for the weekend fishing Craig Llyn and Dolgau beats. Craig Llyn is a very nice stretch to fish with varied pools, glides and riffles. The morning was slow with rain falling an temperature low. Only one fish caught in the morning in the lower half of the beat but was a cracking 2lb wild brown on a PTN on french leader. Lunch saw the wind drop and the temperature increase slightly a great LDO hatch arrived. Fish rising in the faster water. 3 trout and 2 graying all to olive patterns. A really good day weather considering.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

Nice fly water. Didn't see any salmon.

After Catching last weekend I probably deserved a through skunking which is what I was resolved to after 9hrs casting. However at 8pm I received some confirmation for my efforts while fishing deep with a Toby in the Vanstone tail, I think I probably inadvertently conducted an upstream induced take manoeuvre which an unfortunate Salmon begrudgingly accepted. Having seemingly learnt my lesson from the lost fish last week my upgraded single hook held as the fish went berserk and I played it cool enough to put the net under a silver 16lbs – result! Fished the beat through lovely wading water under the castle, no fish seen moving anywhere seemingly gone to ground in the deeper holes? Barbless hook came out in the weigh net again, fish away strong.

1 Salmon, 1 Chub, 2 Pike

I fished as a guest of Shaun Watkins, the fishing was tough very cold not much of a hatch, but there were little hatches for about 15 mins or so at a time, we caught the fish we got on emerger patterns size 16-14, olive and brown, the most of the hatches were on the upper stretch of the beat.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

2 brown trout caught and released. Green gold head nymph size 10. Olive and black fuzzy damsel nymph size 12. Both approx. 14 oz. Snapped twice. Once on gold head Montana size 12, once on size 14 black epoxy buzzer.

2 Trout

I saw a good number of fish raising to a recent hatch, however the fish were still pretty picky. The river conditions were good with clear water. I caught one trout on a dry fly in the flats, which weighted about 1.5lbs. The fish was in good condition if a bit lean!

1 Trout

3 Trout