Set up a broadside drift and cover the water systematically. Work a bushy searching pattern on the bob and drop a contrasting nymph on the point.
If the main plan is not working, switch to a smaller, more imitative pattern fished slower and deeper. A change of drift angle can also make a difference.
Evening tends to be the best period in summer — stay late if you can for a sedge or spinner fall.
A gentle ripple is ideal for drifting — broadside drift covering the wind lanes should be productive.
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
A reasonable day here, though cloud isn't quite in the sweet spot.
Blaenmelindwr is the roadside one — fifteen hectares of upland water on the Plynlimon foothills above Ponterwyd, a good head of wild brown trout with the odd trickle-stocker pushing to a pound and a half. Heavy weed by late summer, which favours small dark patterns worked tight to the margin. Easy parking and easy access; the kind of water you can fish for a couple of hours on the drive back from somewhere else.
Blaenmelindwr is the roadside one — fifteen hectares of upland water on the Plynlimon foothills above Ponterwyd, a good head of wild brown trout with the odd trickle-stocker pushing to a pound and a half.
Set up a broadside drift and cover the water systematically. Work a bushy searching pattern on the bob and drop a contrasting nymph on the point.
If the main plan is not working, switch to a smaller, more imitative pattern fished slower and deeper. A change of drift angle can also make a difference.
Evening tends to be the best period in summer — stay late if you can for a sedge or spinner fall.
A gentle ripple is ideal for drifting — broadside drift covering the wind lanes should be productive.
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
A reasonable day here, though cloud isn't quite in the sweet spot.
Blaenmelindwr is the roadside one — fifteen hectares of upland water on the Plynlimon foothills above Ponterwyd, a good head of wild brown trout with the odd trickle-stocker pushing to a pound and a half. Heavy weed by late summer, which favours small dark patterns worked tight to the margin. Easy parking and easy access; the kind of water you can fish for a couple of hours on the drive back from somewhere else.
