Feedback & Reports

Found the location easy with the directions given, no probs with the acess track, just took it very steady and the old 2w/drive Volvo made it right down to the boat house (I might add you do run a risk of cutting your tyres on the slate stone track covering though). Low cloud, wind & rain for about 3hrs so could only see about 1/3 rd of the Llyn but then the sun came out and it was good for rest of the day. Managed to take 10 trout up to 3/4lb & lost about 8, on dry & wet fly, wets. Used gh spider, gh buzzer, bibio, dry sedge, hawthorns, bibio, all in black.
Had a really good few hours with the little but hard fighters on light set up. Venue & scenery stunning!!! Will I return? You bet! Thanks once again wuf for the chance to fish such great locations.

10 Trout

Only had a couple of hours. Great location. 1 small one on a cruncher and one beauty just under 1 lb on black ant sub surface which alone made the journey worth while

2 Trout

Windy. Difficult conditions. Fished 2 hours late evening. 6 trout. Floating line. Silver Invicta.
B&B in Llanidloes. Coach & Horses B and B (former pub), very clean, large rooms, good breakfast. Recommended.

A typical August day at Bugeilyn. Fog in the morning and hard rain in the afternoon. Enough weather windows to produce plenty of action and produce a fun day for 4 of us in this mountain fastness. About 20 trout actually released and umpteen opportunities missed. They may be small but they are quick! Black flies just under the surface seemed most effective.

20 Trout

Only managed about 3 hours fishing, after a long day on Nant y Moch reservoir the day before my teenage daughter was beginning to show signs of being bored! Still managed 14 feisty wee trout, best in the cloudy calmer spells, sun out, wind up, fish down. Is it me or have the bigger fish disappeared? Not had a fish of over 3/4lb for a few years now.

14 Trout

15 Trout

Our annual trip to meet the Welsh Black-finned Trout in his mountain home had a special significance this time; we wanted to congratulate Salmo nigrippinis on his reinstatement as a separate species - see Jon Beer article in July T&S. And, after a little reluctance to put in appearance for a while, due to cloud, sun, wind or absence of it, the little fellow began to rise up out of the peat-stained water to traditional wet flies, including the very aptly named Sun and Wind fly on my middle dropper. No specimens today: the biggest might have been 10 inches and the smallest was a perfectly formed adult of about 4 inches. A delightful day on the moors, glad to be out of the sticky heat at lower altitudes. On reflection, the only other place I can think of where you can wander about with a fly rod looking at the tops of clouds blowing through the valleys below you is Horton Plains in Sri Lanka. The usual superb sunset over Plynlimmon as we drove back to the road. The only downside to the day was a senior moment type fall I had on the rough ground near the top end which left my ankle badly sprained. Driving was subsequently extremely difficult and I'm hobbling with a stick today. It did strike me, at that particularly painful moment, that it was no bad thing to have companions with me - as the WUF recommends for this remote location.

44 Trout

Blanked. Plenty of fish activity and the place was swarming with all sorts of flies, but after trying every fly in my box, without a single pull, I decided to call it a day.

Weather brilliant sunshine, strong breeze good ripple. Fly used mallard & claret fished in the ripple. Took 5 fish from perhaps 20 takes (missed to my shame). Changed to parachute sedge which took 6, all strong takes bigger fish. This is a beautiful wild fishery.

11 Trout

14 fish, 2 bank and 12 boat. A bit cold and windy but good catches to bibio.

14 Trout