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Sadly blanked on a very wet and windy day. True wilderness fishing. Here's hoping for better weather next time.

Fished dam end. No sign of any fish rising at any point in the day.

Well I did think the incoming rain on Friday and Saturday may be heavy so booked Beacons reservoir , assuming the rivers may be up , but stopped to have a look at the Llynfi at Pontithel, enroute , and it looked superb , slight tinge but great , onwards to the Brecon Beacons . . . . . . . .

Arrived at the reservoir at about quarter to ten , tackled up my Orvis nine foot six weight , and the old girl felt heavy after my two weight stream rod . . . . Rigged up just a team of two , my usual trustee team of brownie wets , that I use a lot here , work very well just in the wave , and today it was drizzly , dank and a good trout wave , a real dirty day , a great day for stillwater brownies . Would be good on Teifi or Bugeilyn today too I should imagine !!!!

Anyway , the usual hotspots , produced some lovely brownies today , and in the first couple of hours had four nice fish to hand , and one long range release , sizes ranged from ten to fourteen inches , gorgeous fish . . . I worked my way round the West side , and picked up a fish in one of the bays , just as it meets the ripple , lovely swirl , and tightened into a cracker . . . . Spot on . . .

Last fish was up by the dam wall , on the dropper , lovely twelve inch Beacons brownie , a really fun four hours here . I did see a maroon Y reg LDV camper van parked in the designated parking area just at the bottom of the dam. Knocked the chappy up who must have been sleeping and asked what he was going to do with the rigged up two beach caster rods !!!!!! "Oh have a look if there s anywhere to fish " . My reply was , don't make out I'm as green as I'm cabbage looking bud !!!!!! And in no certain terms explained that it's permit only / club water , and fly fishing only !!!! He aquiesed , and was polite enough , not a local chap , so perhaps unaware , I did explain that most , if not all waters , be it river or Stillwater are permit or club , and if your fishing without permission or permit , then it's an offence , simples !!!!!! Chant over , I walked round and back up along the eastern bank , and decided to call it a day , as it had been a long old weeks work , and was happy with six lovely brownies , will head to the Edw or Arrow mid week , a nice chill out . . . . . . . . . Back here soon !!!!!

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I arrived early in heavy rain, high winds, 8 degrees and white horses breaking all over the lake, so wasn't overly optimistic. Fished from the damn up the east bank using trad wets and nymph/buzzer teams but with no joy. By lunchtime the wind had died down and temperatures climbed slightly which set off a decent sedge and caddis hatch but didn't see a single fish rise all day. I concentrated my afternoon at the damn wall as it was more sheltered and caught a very small but beautifully marked trout on a black pennell at point fly. I had another on shortly after but it quickly came off again. The west and northern east banks have a really wild feel about them and i cant wait to come back hopefully in better weather.

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Well with all the rivers out of play , I was debating whether to give Gwgia a bash or Beacons , in the end plumbed for Beacons reservoir; bowled up at about half ten , overcast slight drizzle petering out to nearly nothing , a lovely trouty ripple and reading thirteen degrees in my truck , sorted , a good start !!!!!!

Tackled up with my old nine foot six weight Orvis , and a team of wets I always swear by as my wild brownie rig , and got going , obviously the reservoir was topped right up with fresh water , the amount of rain we've had this last week , and driving there , the Llynfi looked like melted chocolate over Pontithel !!!!!!!! So a nice change being on the reservoir instead of the confines of the Arrow or the Lugg , and sport was bang on once I'd found the fish , and the retrieve they wanted . . . . .

Smash takes on my home tied wets , lovely sport too , all gorgeous fish , ranging from twelve to sixteen inches , absolute beauties .And I've found a real hotspot that they like too , if you explore when your there you'll find it too , smashing sport , seven lovely brownies caught and released this morning .

During the five hours I was there , had a couple of crackers not quite made it to the net , but that's how it's goes . . . At oneish some rises also appearing fairly far out , but with sport pretty consistent with what I had on , I stayed with the wets just sub surface . . . . Still a fair bit of rubbish on the A470 side , bit of a shame , I took one bag full home with me , if everyone did that it would soon be nice and tidy , it's such a pity folks have to dump their burger cartons and drinks bottles , oh and up at the top end there appears to be the remains of a tent , now that's been there for an age !!!! Thought the MTAA club may have done a quick tidy up to be honest !!

A superb few hours here , and it didn't rain once , the time I was there , how flukey is that !!!!! It did driving home through Bronllys . . . . And I didn't even stop for a cake and a coffee at the Honey Cafe , now that was being extremely disciplined , ha ha !!!!! Next time though , a fun day on the reservoir , back soon . . . . . . . Great fun !!!!

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Fished for 2 1/2 hours without a touch. Tried various methods without success. No complaints from me though! Scenery is spectacular. Fish just didn’t want to play.