Fished yesterday ( sat ) between 9am to 2pm, conditions not the best 15mph northerly, temp just above hands freezing.
What can I say but what a day,23 and 16 to the boat, found fish in various places and managed to not even tie a blob on all day, from 11am on the nymph fishing was out this world the quality of the fish in this place is superb, no end of our fish were silver slabs around the 2.5lb mark With 2 around the 6 to 7lb mark.
Roll on my next visit I can honestly say this place is on fire if your prepared to use the more natural and drab aproach, the guys we saw were struggling due to the lures they were using, buzzers and nymphs are the meal on the menu right now, just find the clouds of buzzers, stop the boat, throw out and you can't go wrong.

4/5th June quick update - its fishing its head off, a little too easy at times

thinking of going to carsington this weekend , anyone got any ideas of flies and areas to fish ? and lines and depths . thanks

I've booked a boat on Carsington for Thursday. First time on Carsington this season (unheard of me as I love this place).

Anyone with any info on where the fish are as I hear it's started to become more challenging with this bad (sunny and warm) weather. Hopefully it'll cool off later this week and the fish will be up for it after being cooked for a week or so.

Unlike some people I always post a report after getting any info.

One of my bugbears are people who take information and don't share it.

Thanks

Iain

Ooooooo!

Iain - you have a PM.

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hi iain wife and i went on saterday got my **** kicked 3-1 thought i would go with the top of the water approach with drys x buzzers until dinner ; wife started off with a black leech on a glass line ; she caught 2 within 20 minutes in the middle of the reservoir then we moved around quite a bit ; had some dinner; went back out wife got one in the tower bay ;fished for another 3 to 4 hours still nothing for ma then moved to the island and i caught 1 on a black leech - hope this helps tight lines all the best welshwizard .p.s off to llyn breing in to weeks on saterday hope to do better .

That result will be hard to live down.

Thanks for the info.Saturday was a tough day was it not. Weather not kind.
The last few years have seen the fish move out over the middle in the warmer weather. It must be a bit cooler there.
The simple lure approach does work well at times. I think we try and read too much into what we think the fish will be eating and how we want to catch, not what will catch them.

I'll post a report afterwards.

Iain

Hi iain since you have a welsh name do you know any tactics to fish brenig as i always fish it bad and by the way the comment you made about living it down i dont mind my wife beating me i am grateful she takes an interest in my hobbies most wives arent interested in their husbands hobbies.also she ties flies called traceys specials dont know if you have heard of them? are you from north wales or anywhere in wales i myself am from anglesey from llangefni. dont know if you have heard of it? anyway hope you caught a load and my info was helpful.

Hi Welshwizard.
I'm afraid I'm not Welsh but Scottish. I've been down here a long, long time and love fishing Carsington. It reminds me of Loch Leven.
I am jealous of anyone whose wife loves fishing, that's the only thing lacking in my relationship - she hates fishing.

I've never fished Brenig but can't see it being any different to anywhere else. I've always found the same tactics seem to work most places.
First find the fish and don't chop and change flies until you do. If fishing a strange water, find out how deep the fish are and what general colours or types of fly are working. Then work out a plan using flies you are confident with and you should get a few fish.
Normally I would start with something bigger to draw some interest, montana, blob or cats whisker on the point, some natural looking fly on the middle, like a diawl bach, cruncher or something and an attractor type bob fly such as a small muddler, soldier palmer or similar.
Nine times out of ten this setup will get you some interest and you can then change flies according to what is catching or getting interest from the fish. You can also change when you talk to other anglers or watch how the fish are taking.
The difficulty on the bigger waters is locating the fish. It doesn't matter how good your flies are if there are no fish there.

Yours

Iain