Feedback & Reports

All fish returned, 7-8 inches in size. Very few rises, sporadic hatches of sedge. River was slightly peaty coloured good height for the fly.

8 Trout, 1 Grayling

Water clear until 4pm when coloured fast, fished from dawn and saw around 12 salmon, possible residents. Caught 2 trout, 0.5lb and 1lb on Flying C spinner and an elver.

2 Trout

This is the first time we have fished the Wye and were impressed with the online booking system and detailed map of the beat.
River conditions were good, with clear water dropping from the previous days heavy rain. Saw and cast to a sizable brown trout in Bend Pool, but no luck.
Fished the entire beat with occassional knocks but no fish rising. The long gliding run below Abercymryn Pool didn't fullfil its trouty or grayling potenial, with my one and only trout of the day yielding to a weighted grey shrimp.
Upper Craig Llyn Pool produced the only other trout of the day caught on a gold head pheasant tail nymph.
Look forward to trying other beats in the future.

2 Trout

8 Barbel, 5 Chub

Late report from July 6th. 7lb spinner- Robin Woods.
August 15th - 6lb cock and August 17th - a fine 12lb cock for Ben Woods, aged 10 on spinner. 3 fish lost on fly in same week!? All coloured fish.

3 Salmon

Conditions remain tough with low water but managed to find some smaller brownies up to 1.5lb on nymphs (in some of the deeper pools) and dries once the hatch came on around 7pm.

9 Trout

Started at 8am...on my way home at 1pm, 6 rainbow using worm and bubble.

6 Trout

Mild weather, river running a little low and the odd fly coming off during the day. 6 trout between 5 and 9 inches, missed several more.
Lots of diversity along this beat, very good.

6 Trout

Fished two Crai beats today - Danycraig in the morning and Upper Crai after lunch. Both fished on 3WT with dry fly - Adams Para or Klinkhammer. I found the two beats quite different. Not much action below the bridge at Danycraig but hooked into 4 WBT above the bridge in slow pools. The 4 fish were between 10" and 14" but am I allowed to tell you about the one that got away? Bent my 3WT double and made several line stripping runs before it broke the line at the hook just as I was about to land it - it had to be 18"-20" fish and would have been a PB - shame. So Danycraig has some big fish in it. Upper Crai gave up 9 WBT and by contrast these were generally much smaller fish although included 3 or 4 at around 10". Very pleasant day fishing in a lovely valley. Either beat is a great half-day.

4 Trout

Fished two Crai beats today - Danycraig in the morning and Upper Crai after lunch. Both fished on 3WT with dry fly - Adams Para or Klinkhammer. I found the two beats quite different. Not much action below the bridge at Danycraig but hooked into 4 WBT above the bridge in slow pools. The 4 fish were between 10" and 14" but am I allowed to tell you about the one that got away? Bent my 3WT double and made several line stripping runs before it broke the line at the hook just as I was about to land it - it had to be 18"-20" fish and would have been a PB - shame. So Danycraig has some big fish in it. Upper Crai gave up 9 WBT and by contrast these were generally much smaller fish although included 3 or 4 at around 10". Very pleasant day fishing in a lovely valley. Either beat is a great half-day.

9 Trout