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Dry but windy as usual, lilly pads have made fishing too frustrating for me to return, the swamp on the flat bank is dangerous with holes, you could easily brake your ankle. Road is easily accessible in a normal car.

1 Trout

5 fish.
All around 6/7 inch in length.
Caught on bibio first dropper.
Fantasticly peaceful place.

5 Trout

8 fish caught.
Caught using Zulu point and bibio & mallard droppers.
Fantasticly peaceful place.

8 Trout

The perfect weather when I unlocked the top nature reserve gate this morning at half six ....Overcast , with a strong breeze, perfect for Bugeilyn!!!
She's like a big mug of horlicks , been a full year since I've been to one of my old favourites....A client wanted to change a fishing day, so, I had a free day, so up into the mountains it was then......
Sublime sport from the off ..... My selected wets for here doing the business .... Lovely solid takes too, and I'm sure the overall average size of the brownies here is much bigger than twenty years ago here !!!! Is there more food, with more aquatic weeds, and nuphar, now in abundance, particularly on the right hand , christmas tree shoreline..... who knows ????
Good fish, most over nine inches, with five or six eleven of twelve inch fish ....Two double hook ups also .... Now they put a lovely bend in your rod !!! Superb....and the colours of these black finned brown trout....stunning, with a green platinum hue ... fantastic...
Some dry fly sport too mid afternoon, thd breeze dropped, uo came the fish .... A small black f fly doing the business , tight yo thf lilly pads at tgr very top end ... Tis a bit hairy uo there careful walking so you don't go through the top crust !!! Tis thr moving of it that kind of worries me ... Actually I loop around the boggy section and comf back in towards the lake again ....Fab aggressive takes too, on thf dries , think I tallied just over eight on thf dries, thf remainder on thf tiny wets ... my Diawl Bach doing the business... very solid takes too them !!!
A fantastic red letter day at an old timer .... Twenty six, maybe one or two more ... It's just super sport !! I would say, getting the right weather is everything for this llyn, as it is with most mountain llyns !!! Right, that's me ready for a can of Stowford Press.....Well earned I'd say !!!!!!! Lol ........

26 Trout

Lovely to be back up at Bugeilyn very peaceful apart from a low level RAF flyby straight up the middle of the Llyn.
A few showers and rather a strong wind made casting difficult from the left bank.
Plenty of action on a pair of Half Hog hoppers fished wet and dry.
most fish 6 to 8 inches.

10 Trout

As always such a pleasure to see Bugeilyn come into sight as you round the crest, conditions not exactly ideal, v sunny, wind intially blowing down the Llyn toward boathouse. Made our way upto the top end on the left bank and picked up a few. It really came on later in the day when a hatch got the fish rising and all taken off the top on the usual dries. The stamp of the fish has definatly improved, all a good size and fiesty.
We were not the only ones fishing either, we had the pleasure of watching an Osprey circling and diving in and on its third attempt made off with a trout in its claws, very impressive.

20 Trout

Fished the morning and fabulous to be back. Hot but still very windy with an Easterly breeze. Tried to fish the Christmas tree bank but struggled to cast in the wind. Did have a couple of attempted grabs on my Coch-y-bonddu. Moved to the other side where casting was easier. After numerous rises and numerous misses, finally had one on the dropper (Diawl Bach) and one on the point (Coch-y-bonddu) at the same time - that was a first for me! Don’t know whether I hit a shoal or something about the wind rising but definitely strange. No other fish after that. Lots of daddy long legs about of course kites circling above. Fabulous morning!

As we drove past Llyn Clywedog we observed a flat calm over the whole of the reservoir. However, on arrival at Bugeilyn there was a steady breeze creating a nice ripple on the water. Despite the cloudless sky fish were rising to what we worked out to be very small brown beetles, about the quarter of the size of a Coch-Y-Bonddu. After trying to match the hatch and only getting the fish to splash at our offerings we changed to basic hares ear pattern which the fish couldn't resist. By 3pm we decided to get out of the heat and take shelter in the boat house for refreshments. Fished again from 5pm for another couple of hours. Once again saw the Hen Harriors.

16 Trout

Fish rising from 1pm till 4pm, beautiful sunny and breezy afternoon. Docs Cock Robin took most of them and Clan Chief took the best fish. I did try an Irresistible Adam’s but couldn’t get one on a dry unfortunately. All beautiful hard fighting fish. I walked the 2.2 miles each way. You can very easily and safely drive a car to the Llyn.

14 Trout

The morning was spent fishing conventional wet flies on the left bank with no success. In the afternoon, I switched to a midge dry fly pattern on a long leader on the right bank fishing to rising fish. Two to the net with two further near misses.

2 Trout