Day Out at Llyn Berwyn

Arriving at the lakeside late morning on a nice warm and breezy day I stood and had a good look around to see if I could see any fishy activity. A couple of violent splashes and some more placid rises. The lake looked good and I had it to myself. The edge is stable all the way around the lake as long as you don't mind sinking in peat and random holes in the earth, cunningly covered in moss and reeds to hamper detection. Rest assured I haven't fallen in one deaper than my hips yet



The water in the edges is quite shallow for much of the lake and the water is crystal clear. In these warmer months the trout are right in the edge so stealth is the order of the day. Walking around in the edge I couldn’t see much activity on the surface and being pretty new to fly fishing I am still only just getting comfortable with dry fly fishing and not much cop at sub surface fishing. So, I was very happy to hear some activity in the margins around this reed bed. Not just dainty rises but violent lunges by what looked to be a good sized fish.



Calm and careful wading along into casting distance and a nice fly landed, sat there for about 5 seconds and literally flew out of the water as the brownie took it! Heart stopping stuff. It made it even better that I had singled this one out, got a fly out to it without spooking it and managed to tempt it.



Rest of the day was fantastic – a couple more browns (it is a wild fishery which is trickle stocked with brownies too) but not as big this time and not stalked in the margins. I assume this is a stocked brown as it is very different in colour to the smaller ones I had. Completely static dry fly worked a treat. I always assumed that you had to cast out and keep the fly moving but it seemed the opposite was true. Is this generally the score with surface fishing still waters?

Anyway, great day out, peace and quite, lots of space and a nice trout.

Cheers,
Alpinefly

PS - first time using PhotoBucket so fingers crossed.

take the plastic wrap of your rod handle ,the water gets under into the cork and doesnt dry out ,rots in no time, static dry flies are the best not many flies are taken running across the surface because they dont sit long enough ,you know what happens if the do ,drag them on a river at your peril static only no drag

Have done so just after the photo! It's a bit of a hang-up throw back from the days I used to go fishing with my Dad when I was younger. He used to keep the plastic on everything even the landing net pole! Habits hard to break!! Thanks

brilliant pictures mate

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David (little machin)

Perfection , what its all about. Well done. Hooked for life now I guess.

jbinc, yep well and truly hooked. It was perfection in every sense because fishing to me is all about getting out there in beautiful places like this one and enjoying it all preferably without anyone else there. After growing up on a diet of coarse fishing I quickly got fed up with crowds of people hammerng a lake or river. Peaceful places for me now...

Little Machin, thanks!

Well done alpinefly. Cracking pictures and great fish. Maybe, just maybe I can get up there too before the season ends.

Very very nice indeed - are Day Tickets available? doesn't look too far away from me.

DownStream - yes you can get day tickets from Tregaron AA, more easily from the Post Office in Tregaron (10 minutes away) or from the gents barbers in Lampeter. Princely sum of £10 oer day fly only. One warning for this place - the midges of an evening are something else! Never had it as bad anywhere else so be warned. If the wind drops - look out! Hope you get up there.

WelshOsprey - do it! Well worth the trip.