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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A good match for Llyn Padarn — most conditions are close to what it fishes best in.
Padarn is one of the largest natural lakes in Wales — ninety-seven hectares of moraine-dammed glacial water below the Llanberis Pass, twenty-nine metres at its deepest. Wild brown trout in the margins; torgoch — Arctic char — in the deep water, where they've held since the last glaciation. A boat helps. The view down the lake with Snowdon behind is the kind that justifies a long drive even on a day the fishing doesn't quite happen.
Padarn is one of the largest natural lakes in Wales — ninety-seven hectares of moraine-dammed glacial water below the Llanberis Pass, twenty-nine metres at its deepest.
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 good match for Llyn Padarn — most conditions are close to what it fishes best in.
Padarn is one of the largest natural lakes in Wales — ninety-seven hectares of moraine-dammed glacial water below the Llanberis Pass, twenty-nine metres at its deepest. Wild brown trout in the margins; torgoch — Arctic char — in the deep water, where they've held since the last glaciation. A boat helps. The view down the lake with Snowdon behind is the kind that justifies a long drive even on a day the fishing doesn't quite happen.
