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7 Barbel

One strong pull from what might have been a salmon, although owner Sean who was with me at the time said it was likely to have been a big trout. Some smaller trout managed to attack the salmon fly despite all the leaves in the water. Otherwise no salmon seen or encountered. That was more than compensated for by some brilliant spey-casting tuition and tips about the beat (and many other fishing matters) from Sean.

4 Trout

Was a rough old day very windy managed three Chubb

3 Chub

Just wasn't our day, just the two chub both on the 2oz feeder. Didn't fish the left hand field towards the bridge.

2 Chub

Beautiful beat, good access but not sure it’s worth the bank fee. Fished til dusk and had some good sized chub but barbel still elusive in low water conditions. Best swims seem to be downstream of bridge

4 Chub

2 Barbel, 2 Chub

Lovely day on the river started at the top croy caught 3 barbel & a chub quite quickly, moved about halfway down had another barbel & 3 chub, finished up at the bottom until dusk had another barbel & a couple of Chub, biggest barbel around 7-8lb mark, all fish caught on robin red pellet fished with a small feeder really is a beautiful stretch of river will be back

5 Barbel, 6 Chub

No fish on the day

First visit to Craig Lyn and indeed the Wye as a whole. Very nice beat with easy parking and access from the car park in the caravan park. The water was clear but slightly up due to overnight rain with plenty of good looking water to fish through. Reasonable number of upwings and stoneflies coming off when the sun was out but only saw a couple of rises all day. Had a brief go with fishing the dry blind but didn't get a response. Most productive method was nymphing with a small shrimp on the dropper and a tungsten beaded nymph on the dropper Euro nymphing style. Didn't catch a huge number of Grayling but half a dozen of those that I did were certainly over a 1lb with the best probably around the 1.75lbs mark. A word of warning though, be very careful when wading as large parts of the riverbed are bedrock can be very slippy! Will certainly return at some point as it was a very enjoyable beat!

3 Trout, 8 Grayling

river in good nick and weather fairly warm/sunny with a few showers. fish not obliging though - just 2 chub up to 1.25 lb

2 Chub