The River Dyfi is one of the rivers not particularly known for its coracle fishermen. In 1798 the Rev. W. Bingley on a visit to North Wales ('A tour round North Wales performed during the summer of 1798' and printed in London in 1800) wrote about seeing a pair of coracles on the Dyfi that were covered in pitched canvas. That river was to become polluted with effluent from lead mining activities and that is recorded as one of the reasons that coracle netting ceased. That fact would indicate the mining pollution in the river had probably killed off the fish and other Salmon had stopped entering the river. Another reason for the end of the coracle is recorded as objections presented on behalf of anglers by The Dovey Fishery Association. This reason is a contradictory one because if pollution had stopped the coracles then the same reason would have stopped angling. Both reasons are recorded as 'evidence' in 1861 after which coracle netting was declared illegal.

The other river called the Taff (different spelling) flows through Cardiff and until recently no information was known about coracle use on the river apart from a few references. In 2002 I discovered information in the Cardiff records about a family of coracle fishermen called Lucas. They fished on the river where the Royal Hotel was later built. Mr James Lucas senior was drowned "in an immense flood" while trying to land opposite the Black Friars from his coracle around the year 1825. His son also recorded as a coracle fisherman drowned many years later as a Port of Cardiff Pilot. There is also a description of Salmon in Cardiff as being " exceedingly abundant here at the beginning of the present century (nineteenth) and were far from being esteemed a delicacy". A Watercolour painting by J.C. Ibbetson (1759-1817) 'Cardiff from the west' illustrates coracles of a design resembling more closely the type in use on the 'other' River Taf.

The River Dwyrd is the least known river with any connection to coracles. All the academic works on working coracles have no mention of the river and it was not until 1986 that the existence of this previously unknown craft was first noted when a Shrewsbury coracle maker was asked to renovate an original. That maker was John. E. Davies who also made an exact copy for the chairmen of the Coracle Society (now president) that is now on display at the National Coracle Centre at Cenarth. The Dwyrd coracles last resting place in the outbuildings of a large country house near Shrewsbury is because the owners are the same family who own the estate through which the river flows and where the coracles were once used. It has been suggested by a resident on the estate that they would have been stored in the boathouse that is now used as accommodation in the Snowdonia National park. Another coracle of the same type but crudely made was later found in Shrewsbury at the same location. These coracles appear to have been once painted and are made from Ash to a design that more closely resembles the Irish paddling currach by overlapping lathes riveted were the lathes cross.