Feedback & Reports

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

Fishing not as easy as on previous day with few fish moving. Fished morning only. 3 fish taken on buzzers.

3 Trout

Fished for two days (8th & 9th June) both hot and sunny days with a breeze moving up the lake towards the boathouse.
Caught on black buzzers and dry flies. Wonderful.

17 Trout

Evolved into a beautiful bright day when cloud cover burnt off enabling good viewing of kites and eurofighters. One decent bottle green salmo nigripinnis; it's not the black pectorals or vomerine teeth thats remarkable John Beer but the irridescent bottle green colour that has faded in the bottled specimens in the nhm. All largely caught on wet flies. As ever the larger fish turning over in the middle of the llyn were well out of range; perhaps the boat would be handy next time. This place is always worth a visit.

19 Trout

With the prospect of heavy rain in the afternoon, I started mid morning. Fished with a black gnat, tied klinkhammer style, and a parachute adams. Took 3 fish but raised many more that came short of the fly.
Those fish that were rising came to the fly, but only once, after which they moved on.

3 Trout

Water still cold with rain showers and not many fish rising, caught 3 on Black Pennel & Bibio just under the surface.

3 Trout

After a cast or 2 on the Severn in the morning we arrived mid-day, to low cloud, driving rain and a strong cold wind, we must be mad we thought! The rain soon eased off, even the cloud lifted a little but the wind wouldn't give up. Fishing was slow, the odd pluck here and there with the odd one sticking. Nothing over 6oz but great to be up there again. Will be back to this great spot on a warmer day!

10 Trout

Words just can't describe this place. Deafening silence is the first thing that hits you when you get out of the car, and as you are forced to use every other sense trying to understand how you got here and what's around you, it's a good while before you even start to think about the fishing! We saw the odd rise until about 11am when there was a good hatch of olives and some breeze blown food from the marginal grasses. They are not easy fish, but with patience you will catch a few. We had 6, all on dries, and left at lunchtime for some food etc - once we left we were reluctant to go 'back in' and attempt to relive those first minutes again, and so we turned our back on Llanidloes and said thank you for another year or so. I think I've said it before, Bugeilyn should be a compulsory experience for a fisherman.

6 Trout