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Mild day, wind, no rises seen 12.00 - 19.00 dry fly only, two decent trout caught and returned

2 Trout

2 Trout

The odd fish showing but only 1 trout taken on dry fly. The rest all on bead head nymphs or emergers taken sub-surface. Twaite shad (a first) up to 2lbs. Plenty of fry observed in the margins.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling, 4 Other

A truly beautiful beat, which I was trying for the first time. Similar in some ways to Fenni Fach. The waterfall at the top of the beat is worth the trip. Got there at about 2.30 and stayed til 7.30. Good conditions, warm and cloudy with an only occasional upstream breeze. Tried a little pocket water fishing up from the bottom of the beat using a PTN but no luck. Spent some time at the junction pool casting to rising fish. I could spy some much bigger fish nosing around the shallows, but no matter how stealthily I repositioned myself, they had always ghosted away by the time I was able to cast to them. I moved up to the top of the beat to explore and eventually caught a couple of small trout in the pool running after the waterfall at the top of the beat. Parachute Adams. A great day, despite the lack of fish caught.

2 Trout

2 Trout

Bright, windy conditions and no sign of anything with an adipose fin!

1 Chub

A delightful stillwater.
Too busy on a sunny Sunday to fish close to the car park nearest the dam but quiet and wild close to the feed rivers.
Only tiddlers on a black gnat but need more than one day to explore this water and the opposite bank looks more remote and interesting.

3 Trout

2 Trout

First visit to Craig Llyn, a cracking beat, excellent set up, with good access and plenty of different features to fish.
River nice and clear, could have done with a bit more cloud cover but it made sitting on the bank very enjoyable so always a trade off!
The top part of the beat especially interesting with lots of "fishy" spots. Not much surface feeding, although I did spot some large grayling.
Next two pools had a bit more visible activity but ultimately we failed to find the trout. All fish caught on dry fly.
Clearly a beat with masses of grayling, often of good size, am sure the trout are there too.

3 Grayling

1 Salmon