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Great location and surroundings, but river is very very low and clear.

4 Chub

68 fish between two anglers today. All on nymphs due to little dry fly from weather conditions. Some lovely trout over a pound/pound and a half. Several beautiful graying into the 40cm range.dozens in the 30cms. Some difficult wading areas if unconfident. Owners are both lovely and helpful. Another angler on the water today was struggling, we lent him a few flies and with some guidance he doubled his days catch in 10 minutes! Scenery is gorgeous and if it wasn’t for even better fishing I would come back without a rod. 5⭐️

10 Trout, 58 Grayling

2 Chub, 1 Other

5am to 9:30.
Managed 2 good chub both getting on for 5lb on trotted meat. Briefly connected to two other good fish. Otherwise struggled on a usually productive beat, but that’s fishing!
River painfully low but a little cooler than of late.

2 Chub

1 Chub

An exploration trip to Rheidol mainly due to lack of photos and information on this Llyn. The track is definitely a 4x4 track. To be more precise a Land Rover or pickup track. If walking is required this will only add to the experience of fishing here as the scenery is spectacular.

On this occasion and due to the weather the pick up was a welcome addition to the kit! Strong winds and sporadic rain featured for most of the session. 1130 - 1700.

Due to conditions mainly only fished along the right hand side that offered the most shelter. No fish rose at all during the session. All 8 were caught prospecting within approximately 20ft off the bank as casting out into the Llyn with the wind was very challenging. Beetle patterns produced very little interest which was a surprise.
In the first hour I rose 9, on the fly pictured - hooked 7 and lost all 7! Including very nice fish of about a lb at the net!! Must have packed the rubber hooks!!

Returning to where I started I swapped to a white moth and landed 2. Several patterns were tried but only the pictured pattern really produced any interest landing 5 out of the other 6 fish. I would think subsurface/wet flies would be deadly here.

These fish fight well above their size and are well worth the time and effort to get to the Llyn.

Hopefully these pictures and notes of a wet and windy session will get Rheidol the attention it deserves.

8 Trout

Turned up early evening hoping to fish into dusk if the water temp was low enough. Only to find that the beat was hosting a rubber duck race. Yes, you did read that correctly, a rubber duck race. Went down river and fished the available faster runs . Very few rising fish but had two on a small Adams, and two late evening on wets. All small. No sign of any sedge.

4 Trout

Stayed at the Natures Nest at the Ballingham village end of the beat (fantastic place!) and just a short walk to the river. 6 chub from the end field first swim in the field, on float and feeder and a further 4 from the swim to the right of the concrete platform on float. Pellets used and pre baiting whilst moving between the swims worked for us

10 Chub

1 Trout

Water temp at 0930 was 14.5C - lower than I was expecting.
Fished until noon. Few small fish rising in pool at bottom of lower beat, and saw one small fish in pool below first waterfall.
None to the net however