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Well some days are better than others and this was a good day!
The tally for the morning; 3 Shad, 2 Chub (largest weigh-netted at just shy of 7lb) and 1 WBT that came in at 3lb. All on a Black and Yellow Brass Tube-fly by local artisan Geoff Franks. I lost count of the ones I missed by mid-day, at one point it was a fish a cast but most of the Shad and smaller Trout couldn’t hang on to a #8 Double.
After lunch a Black/Gold Flying C accounted for 2 more Shad, a small Pike and, having hooked and lost 3 when they threw the single barbless, an 8lb Hen Salmon went downstream instead of airborne so I was able to net this one.
The Shad and Chub were taken in the Bridge Pool but all the Salmon were hooked in one short section at the top of the Creel.
I've attached one photo looking upstream to Bridge Pool from the left and another of the right bank area where the Salmon queue up in low water!

1 Salmon, 1 Trout, 2 Chub, 1 Pike, 5 Other

What a day! Mick the guide for the beat took me straight to the fish and following his instruction on tip, leader and fly. I landed a 12lbs cock fish slightly coloured, what a fight. All day I kept getting shad on salmon flies. To cap a great day I had a fresh sea lice salmon about 8lb on spinner. I asked Mick to have a fish and he landed a lovely salmon on fly about 9lb. Mick is a star and knows the beat like the back of his hand. Thanks Mick I will be back.

2 Salmon, 5 Other

Fished for 2 hours after fishing Half Moon. This beat was more overgrown and casting was more tricky , caught 4 trout 11" one on a dry mayfly the others on a small black bead head nymph.

4 Trout

Four brown trout caught (2: 8"; 1: 7"; 1: 6"), two on a PTN and two on dry flies (Parachute Adams and a Soft-Hackle Dry Fly), using the duo method for some of these. The fishing was slow up to 11am, then more active up till around 3pm. Not many fish seen rising, but around the middle of the day fish could be drawn to the surface with a dry fly.

4 Trout

Ross AC - 9.5 lbs salmon to Richard Woodhouse this evening on a No3 silver mepps

1 Salmon

We arrived at 3.30pm with a nice breeze and a few foam lines running down the Llyn. My fishing pal took the Xmas tree side and I the soft side. Both of us used my own tied bibio, joey 2 butt and greenwell spider. I caught on my first cast and thought I was in for a bucket full but eventually had 9 to hand with a few long range releases as well. Watching my pal opposite land his first fish and slip on the bank and pirouette into the drink had me in stitches but on a serious note, could of been nasty......Be warned!!
We left at 9pm after 15 lovely wbt to hand between us all on wets. No rises seen all afternoon which surprised us.
This was my 3rd visit to Llyn Bugeilyn in a month and have thoroughly enjoyed every minute but will be going back to the rivers for the next month of so. Will hopefully visit at least once during the summer months.
Thanks WUF

15 Trout

Surprisingly difficult, water level great.

3 Trout

Very hard going all day. Little surface activity despite a bit of a hatch.

1 Trout

Fish taken on nymphs - not much interest in dries. All fish returned. Please note that the access to the river near the bridge has been obstructed by a fence erected by builders. The nearest point of access is now down a lane off Station Road next to the council houses.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

I was concerned that the traffic noise from the A40 would disturb this otherwise tranquil spot. I needn’t have worried. The field near the top of the beat was hosting a music festival, which drowned out all other sound. This beat had, well, a beat. I didn’t mind my day’s fishing having a soundtrack.
At first I thought the river was alive with rising fish. As I looked more closely I realised it was just the countless sand martins dipping into the water’s surface to pick off insects. The birds were feeding but the fish didn’t seem to be taking insects at the surface yet. There was no shortage of upwing flies to eat. I’ll have to review my copy of ‘Matching the Hatch’ to identify them all. Yellow mayflies were quite conspicuous, but the majority were a duller brown.
Starting at the lower end of the beat, I ran a GRHE and Pink Shrimp through the prosaically named ‘Sewerage Pool’. No fish showing. I move upstream of the A40 bridge to some of the flat glides with the wooded opposite bank. Around 3pm the fish started rising. Time for dry fly. I selected the generic imitation of a Parachute Adams #14, and cast to the rising fish.
A seven-incher first came to the net. It was a very silvery colour. I wondered for a moment if it might have been a salmon smolt.
I lost another larger fish, then took a break when the fish stopped rising.
I returned in the evening sunshine, and walked the riverbank once more. Some bigger fish appeared to be rising in the upper reaches of the beat, but the trees make casting trickier up that end. I moved downstream, and cast to some more rising fish. A ten-inch fish took the Adams.
The largest fish of the day was just shy of twelve inches. The fish helpfully unhooked itself and jumped out of the net before I had a chance to photograph it.
A nice little beat for a day’s fishing. There are some bigger fish to catch here no doubt. I’ll return.

(full report and more photos on my blog: afishingdiary.com

3 Trout