Re: Fishing near Tryfan?
The last time I was in the region was at the back end of three seasons ago. I was on public transport and shanks's pony and I planned to roughly halve the week between the poorer of the two campsites at the foot of Tryfan and another somewhere coastal, west of Porthmadog. At the time the day-ticket was available from the Ogwen Falls cafe and covered Llyn Idwal, Llyn Ogwen, and the very little-fished Ffynnon Lloer which lies at about 600m altitude almost directly North of Tryfan on the other side of the road to Bethesda. The ticket also got you a mile or so on the (river) Afon Ogwen above the north end of the Llyn. A day ticket was £14 and it made economic sense to buy a week's ticket at £35 as I'd planned to be there for a little more than half the week. Call in advance re Sunday opening.
When I arrived at Llyn Ogwen it was raining heavily. Those who know Snowdonia will know that this doesn't just mean ordinarily English heavily. It means Welsh Mountain heavily. And the blokes in the cafe said that they'd had a **** season because heavily had been the adverb of the year. So it wasn't exactly promising from the outset. Then the winds picked up. I shall say very little more other than that after two days of attempting to fish Ffynnon Loer (successfully) and Llyn Idwal (unsuccessfully due, I'm inclined to believe, to the 'buffeting' white horses which were actually larger than the true Equus ferus you might normally expect to see trotting around a pasture, disabling every attempt at a 'cast') I thought about bailing. On the third morning I awoke to abandoned and flattened tents and a deserted campsite and made the decision to leg it. I'll never forget somebody's orange North Face tent dancing in the air as if it were a carrier bag in the wind at a Sainsbury's car park, its remaining tether a solitary peg in a deep-puddled ground. So I sought micro-climates new and bussed over to Porthmadog on an unsuccessful bass pursuit in slightly better weather! Although its unlikely that you'll suffer similar misfortune (yeah right, I've been down there too many times!) its simply got to be chanced. You're more than likely to be completely alone on Ffynnon Loe and it nestles in a very quiet ampitheatre, shaped wonderfully by the towering Pen yr Ole Wen, and if you're fishing isn't up to much you can always traverse the Carneddau, whatever the weather, as long as you know what you're doing! Ditto for Idwal and the Glyders, and of course Tryfan itself. Whatever the weather, my misery aside, it'll be a very memorable experience!
If that didn't whet your apetite to fish around Tryfan, and you can get to Llanberris easily, check out Llyn Dwythwch, a cracking little Llyn not too far from the hideous tourist path up to Snowdon. Day tickets are a tenner from the Post Office in Llanberris but it might not be open on a Sunday! I had a great short session here two Junes ago, fishing very successfully with the most unlikely, godawful Caddis I've ever tied. Llyn Padarn contains char but is boat-fishing only and I gather it attracts some nasty algal bloom.
Hope this helps. Have a great time and post up some piccies when you're back. I think I'm long overdue a trip to the area...
Tight lines
Ant
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