Hi Guys

I am going to spend the 1st bank holiday weekend in Southern Snowdonia, more specifically Coed Y Brenin. My friends are all into mountain biking but I plan to do a bit of fishing. I know there are quite a few good still waters such as Trawsfynydd, but what about rivers? I really like fishing on medium to small streams for trout and cannot find any concrete information on which rivers are good.

Does anyone know this area well, I would appreciate some help on where to go, I wil have a car, but dont want to be driving too far from our base camp at Coed Y Brenin.

Thanks Guys

Sybie

Your problem is going to be that the most convenient rivers are not yet seeing any fish as the Mawddach, Wnion and the Glaslyn are principally sea trout and salmon rivers and although the Glaslyn gets some early fish the others will not see too many until well into May.

My best advice would be to drive the 20 miles to Bala and get a Bala AC ticket on the Dee where there is some good brown trout fishing to be had and there will also be some out of season grayling about.

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seeing as your in the area you might as well take full advantage of both the nearby lochs.
tal y llyn and lake vyrnwy,or make your way up through to corwen and llangollen and try the upper reaches of the dee.
sea trout also frequent tal y llyn although as mentioned a little early.

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Tynycornel Hotel, on the banks of Lake Tal-y-llyn.

hope this helps

I agree with Sewinbasher as there’s good fishing on the Dee to both the Bala and Corwen clubs, and a bit further the Maelor Club.

However, the Environment Agency published a ‘Where to’ guide, which I enclose a link below.

Environment Agency - Where to fish in Wales

Let us know if the link doesn't work as I have a copy of the North Wales region stored on my computer.

Dyl