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Originally Posted by benjammin
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Originally Posted by Wild Fishing Wales
The Environment Agency Wales (EAW) is working in partnership with CCW to deliver Wild Fishing Wales.
This £2.6million project will achieve sustained and measurable benefits.
The project will enhance environmental quality and improve access to a network of river and still water fisheries throughout Wales.
The objective of the Wild Fishing Wales Project is to develop and make more accessible a network of river fishing beats and still waters. It will help fisheries, angling clubs, landowners and rivers trusts to deliver access and habitat improvement projects.
The project also supports the development of an accredited training course for angling guides and the introduction of guides to the network of improved sites.
Click here to find out more about Wild Fishing Wales.
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Email: enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk |
I had a chat in a pub to a local environment officer in Dolgellau last year discussing this proposal and he was of the opinion that one of the suggestions put forward was to build access roads to some of the less accessible lakes.
Some that were mentioned were Glaslyn, Llyn Llydaw, Llyn Cowlyd, Llyn cwm Bychan, Llyn Goddionduon, etc.
There was no suggestion that rainbows would be introduced at any time, indeed he said that through better access to them the many smaller lakes could be more closely studied and that the habitat and eco systems could be better managed as a result. |
Both
Llyn Glaslyn, Llyn Llydaw, were mentioned on this thread, well worth clicking on for zooming in on the interactive map. Glaslyn is slightly to the west of Llydaw which is tagged.
Llyn Llydaw & Llyn Teyrn, Gwynedd
Llyn Glaslyn lies at an altitude of 1,985' - despite their high altitude both lakes are well served by Snowdon's access tracks, so much so that
Llyn Llydaw is already deemed Britain's 'most visited' lake due to weight of numbers using the path and causeway to Snowdon.
I add this comment to show how out of touch this EA-W/CCW quango seems to be. If more of Snowdon's unpaved roads require a tarmac surface, then they should be funded directly and not from monies allocated for angling. Did I say the lakes are sterile due to dissolved copper salts? Here's some of what I posted on the linked thread.
Also Britain's
coldest lake Llyn Llydaw featured in Robson Green's recent 'Extreme Swimming'.
...Robson faces a much colder challenge. He heads for Wales and Britain’s coldest lake, Llynn LLydaw, in the Snowdonia National Park.
The lake is the training camp for extreme cold water swimmer Lewis Pugh who swam at the North Pole in 2007 to highlight the effects of global warming. Robson is hoping that Lewis will be able to prepare him
Lewis tells Robson that the water in the lake at 7º is only 2º warmer than the waters the Titanic went down in...
Llydaw does not fish very well, perhaps as it is considered sterile, the blue colour of the water, akin to copper sulphate solution, because that is what it is - albeit in very dilute form, polluted by washings from the old copper mines that surround this, and Llyn Glaslyn slightly to the west, not marked as a fishery, but well worth a visit for the stunning views.
Snowdon, foreground, highest peak in England & Wales at 3,560', Garnedd Ugain sloping right second 3,494'.
Zoom in on Google Earth for some 'Extreme Viewing'. The PYG and Miner's tracks, which crosses the lake causeway, both start at Pen-y-pass car park at 1,185' and show up well.
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