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Nice overcast warm day, lots of fishing rising. Difficult to tell what they were feeding on.
No wind, lake was like a mirror so changing to fish. Got 3 nice trout, best was about a pound.
Lovely location. Bibio and Diawl Bach did the business.

3 Trout

I bought this permit for one of our party of three anglers, the other two of us are Merthyr AA members. We arrived about 10.30am, a beautiful warm morning , cloudless sky and very light breeze (NE).Fish were rising in the calm water around the weed beds at the southern end, but within half an hour this activity ceased abruptly when the wind freshened a little. Throughout the morning the wiind gradually increased until by 1pm it was quite strong with the odd white crested wave just beginning to appear. It then gradually lessened throughout the rest of the day, until it was a light breeze by late afternoon early evening. But there was no sign of surface feeding fish again except for the occasional splashy take or jumping well out in the middle of the reservoir. We stopped fishing at approx. 7pm.
We fished a variety of common imitative nymph and buzzer patterns on hook sizes 10-14, both weighted and unweighted on leaders down to 3lb b.s. but had no takes. A most enjoyable day out in beautiful surroundings but no contact with the fish. Birds of note, cuckoo and tree pipit.

Dry fly and nymph - lots of feeding going on at the mouth of the river flowing in...could not give it much time, so no fish.

Apart from the small bay below car park on that side is there any other bank fishing on the east side of the reservoir? A little more signage wouldn’t go amiss...

2 Trout

All taken on small black wet flies.

4 Trout

11 Trout

Nothing caught but several fish rising, unable to tempt them.

6 Trout