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Mostly small trout but best around 12 oz. Best fly Kate mclaren bumble. Fish generally taking high in water.

25 Trout

Nice day, a few decent fish taking off the surface but none fooled by the flys. Caught all 5 on worm on mix of float and ledger.

5 Trout

Reasonable weather in Dalgarrog, but up on the mountain- torrential rain and wind so strong it was difficult standing let alone cast a line. Waited for change in weather all day but it got worse so went home.

Blanked… again. Had some gentle takes on dry fly but think they were tiddlers too small to swallow the fly.

Nothing landed. Plenty seen in the shallows.

Caught 12 in total but only 6 were a reasonable size. The rest were "tiddlers". Bright and sunny day with a swirling wind making casting difficult. 4 decent fish caught on the north bank on the eastern side in and around the rocks after the shallows and into the deeper area. Traditional wets - Bibio, Machair claret and claret cruncher took the fish on a 3 fly set up about 18ft leader. Wind changed and got fed up hauling into wind so switched to southern bank. Had the rest of the fish on the move down the bank up to the power station pump house. Mostly around the rocks retrieving back over the drop off. Good hard fighting fish and a good afternoon out.

12 Trout

Four bright little trout. One of those days where the better fish nibbled but didn't hook up.

4 Trout

Stunning lake and very pretty, hard-fighting fish.

4 Trout

A superb day’s fishing in challenging conditions. Storm Ellen was giving a steady 30mph southerly with occasional 50+ mph gusts. 12 fish ( all returned ) mainly to a coch-y-bonddu variant that I tie with a springier hackle beneath the hen hackle so that it pulses when pulled. I used a tungsten bead head fly on the point to anchor the flies in the strong wind. I only caught 1 on this fly but it did its job.
As a teenager, I was a member of Dolgarrog Fishing Club. After today, I’m going to see if I can rejoin!

12 Trout

Lovely brown trout about 10” long on a claret bumble in the eastern end. Steady wind and warm , occasional fish rising

1 Trout