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Only my second visit to this beat but a river that needs respect. Wading stick a must as very deep pools. Mixed weather but didn't pour down and wind did make casting difficult for me. Water in shallows was gin clear so found deep pools the best fishing. Small hatches of LDO and fish were showing on top. Still need to practice in casting a dry and river suits the left handed angler. Had a few takes using weighted nymphs but too slow. Never mind a very interesting beat and lovely parking space.

Sunny warm day, so I decided to use Dry fly all day. good hatch around 11am and late afternoon as well. 8 grayling, and 6 brown trout. Most of the fishes were around 2 pounds, with couple of grayling definitely over. Great day, and lovely beat.

6 Trout, 8 Grayling

Difficult day. Hot, windy, high and dropping river. Very few fish seen apart from in the long pool. Possibly spooked a salmon. Lovely fishing and river, would repeat etc

6 Trout, 1 Grayling

Very cold river

Craig Llyn is becoming one of my favourite places to be, I always enjoy fishing this stunning beat.
Weather was positively spring like with sunshine, a gentle beeeze and highs of 14C, a few Olives started emerging around 11:30am and a few fish started to rise to them before a very impressive hatch of March Browns occurred around midday sending the fish just upstream crazy with lots of splashy rises, I managed 3 out of season Grayling on self tied dries before the fish seemed to disappear despite a blizzard of March Browns which lasted about 20 minutes.
I fished on without much success until later in the afternoon when one or two fish started rising in the deep, slow pool in the first field, I offered them my dry fly which was taken on the first cast and resulted in a very pleasing 20 inch brown trout, a great end to the day.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

We popped up for 4 hours, no march browns but good olive hatch. One nice trout ,all taken on drys. Dull day, fish rising all up the river.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

Just over the pound, on a Grey Wulf.

1 Grayling

great to see a good hatch off olives and march browns, two of our fish were taken on the french leader, the rest on the drys; a march Brown pattern. A good number off fish rising down the lower end off the beat. 3 good trout 1lbs to 1 1/4lbs

4 Trout, 4 Grayling

Just below wash off

Didn’t fish, heavy rain through all the morning, Wye was running high, strong and muddy.