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Tricky day with the river super low, both chub came from the fast water.

2 Chub

Small dry sedge was successful, river very low, due to maize beck and other inlets. Four trout (returned, barbless hooks.) Missed and felt several others using different flies. Lots of insect life around, plenty of daddies etc, a lot more life than usual and fish rising as well which was unusual. Fish could afford to be selective. Nice peaceful day though.

4 Trout

Other was 2 Eels

1 Barbel, 7 Chub, 2 Other

Only planned to fish the morning in the same swims as yesterday, but swapped over. Seven 5LB+ barbel fell to hair-rigged pellet along with 7 chub between 2LB and 4LB. left at 11am as canoe traffic bad and swimmers along the stretch (and had had 4 days on the river by then!)

8 Barbel, 7 Chub

Absolutely nothing apart from one lost. Very windy and cold first thing. Very disappointed to see machinery at the front of the house. Is this affecting the fish. Used bubble and worm.

4 Trout

4 Trout

Fished the section above Dent Bank. Conditions were favourable with overcast skies and light winds, but there was not much in the way of fly life, and only a few fish were rising. Caught 3 trout and lost another 3, mostly to elk hair sedge patterns.

3 Trout

Following my session here to start the Brown Trout season on 23rd March was a complete flip of the coin and angling fortunes.

Arriving at 0800 in the fog, 12c and dressing in a coat and woolly hat it could indeed have been March.
A strong wind from down the Llyn was producing some reasonably waves! An ominous start loomed.

Walking to the top of Bugeilyn provided a slight shelter between the metal hurdle and the bog.
After noticing some crane flies around the edges it wasn’t long before a trout rose to take one, then another.
Covering the fish with a grey wolf soon had him in the net.
By lunch 7 fish had been caught, 5 to the wolf and 2 on a white moth pattern then things went quite.
The hat and coat were still on!

Walking back to the truck around 1200 and returning to the top of the Llyn around 1315 was like entering another day.
No hat or coat required. Full sun, reduced wind plus an incredible amount of rising fish in full feeding mode as literally hundreds of small black flies were getting blown off the hill into the water.
It was madness, at times hard to tell my own pattern (a small beetle) from the naturals.
Within an hour 18 fish had been brought to the net taking it to 25 when things quietened down.

By 1500 not much was stirring except the occasional rise.

The knotted gnat came out resulting in 2 more fish.

A truly remarkable day.
27 brown trout all caught on dry flies.
Another was lost with several missed rises along the way.
Finishing at 1600 will forever leave the question of “what if an evening hatch came off?”

Without doubt these are some of the most beautiful brown trout to be caught in one of the most spectacular locations.

27 Trout

1 Trout