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.
Eigiau is the famous one for the wrong reasons — the dam burst in 1925, killed sixteen people in Dolgarrog below, and a hundred years on the lake remains shallow and broad rather than the deep impoundment it used to be. Forty-nine hectares of wild brown trout in shadow of Pen Llithrig y Wrach, plus a small relict Arctic char population (transferred from Llyn Peris before the burst). Roughly a mile and a quarter's walk in. Bank only, two-fish limit.
Eigiau is the famous one for the wrong reasons — the dam burst in 1925, killed sixteen people in Dolgarrog below, and a hundred years on the lake remains shallow and broad rather than the deep impoundment it used to be.
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.
Hatch predictions
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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.
Eigiau is the famous one for the wrong reasons — the dam burst in 1925, killed sixteen people in Dolgarrog below, and a hundred years on the lake remains shallow and broad rather than the deep impoundment it used to be. Forty-nine hectares of wild brown trout in shadow of Pen Llithrig y Wrach, plus a small relict Arctic char population (transferred from Llyn Peris before the burst). Roughly a mile and a quarter's walk in. Bank only, two-fish limit.
