Feedback & Reports

Well , as I pulled up to the gate to do the combi lock to cross the moors to Bugeilyn, I was greeted with squally winds , dank, drizzly rain …reading twelve degrees in my truck too … jeeeeeeeeez I thought , it’s going to be a dismal day at one of my favourite stomping grounds !!!!!
But, as I tackled up, selecting two of my favourite wets for here, I had a mug of coffee from my flask , I could see the wind eddying and changing direction in the valley , kicking up different wave patterns on the Llyn …. Looked hard going …. Anyway, onwards …. Starting along the Chrimbo tree side !!!! Good sport there to be honest , even with the pokey wind ….. hitting the wets hard , great stuff !!! A slow retrieve was what they wanted today mind ..usual stamp of fish for here , some twelve inch beauties in the mix too .Rang the changes and also fished a single big bibio sedgehog on a long leader , effective too, and some lovely savage hits too it , just fished close to the Lilly lads … gotta have your wits about you and steer fish away quickly to get them cleat of the Lilly stems ,and thick rhizomes …
Managed nineteen crackers to the net , also a lot of long range releases, mainly with the big dry at range , oh well, such is life … lol !!!The wind certainly kept me on my toes , changing direction there or four times during the day …. Gggrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! Good exercise though …….
Another fantastic day in the hills , on a favourite Llyn, give one of the Elan lakes a bash Sunday , and hopefully a wild stream end of the week…. I hope the weather stays reasonably kind, as I have a client for two days up in the Elan Valley next week …anyway, I packed up at three, some lovely sport today and nice to get a good few on the big dry sedgehog …. Great fun ,back home and a large Baileys coffee to warm up I think !!!!!!!

19 Trout

3 Trout caught, Nice day eventually after a few showers.

3 Trout

Dry day after a couple of wet ones, cloudy and overcast for most of the day. The sun came out in the afternoon prompting a hatch of upswing flies but there was no accompanying rise from the trout. Took two small WBT to a speculative dry fly, and lost one to a nymph in broken water at the end of the day. A good day and to be honest slightly intimidated by the size of the river.

2 Trout

15.6lb using a barbless cd9 firetiger rapala

1 Salmon

Caught 7 trout from 5-11". Most on a Black Magic nymph, one on a dry fly. Parked at the church - this section is very wild and challenging wading. Later on moved to the bridge further upstream - here the wading is easier.

7 Trout

12 Chub

We fished at Middle Hill Court and the conditions were perfect, overcast, plenty of water in the river and coloured. It was a Red letter day,the biggest barbel was 8 3/4 pounds and the smallest 1 1/2, all in excellent condition, so it just goes to show that the fish are still there but the right conditions are needed.
All fish were caught on various pellets and we fished at the top end.

28 Barbel, 5 Chub

The water level was back up again quite a bit and very coloured. I tried several places with no success and returned to the peg I started from on Wednesday and had two chub and a small barbel at 8.00pm.

1 Barbel, 2 Chub

Writing on behalf of a friend. One bite late afternoon which resulted in nothing.

6 Grayling, 1 Other