What a fantastic week of fishing, the condition of the lake and the fishing available at the moment is outstanding. All the action is on the surface with fish rising throughout the day, huge hatches of buzzers providing a feast for the Trout.

Top fisherman this week is Elliot Penn from Cardiff, Elliot caught a total of 16 Trout 12 Rainbows and 4 Brown’s the best Brown trout was 5 1/2lb and three others close to 4 lb. He used both olive and black shipmans and caught almost all the fish on the surface, Elliot remarked on losing the best fish of the day a brown trout of 8lb plus that took him out to his backing before shaking lose the fly.

Robert Turner 15 fish best fish 6lb Brown, black & grey buzzers.
John Davies 14 fish best fish 5lb Brown, black & grey buzzers.
Kevin Bower 21 fish best 3 1/2lb Rainbow, black buzzers.
Rob Pullen 10 fish best fish 4lb Rainbow, buzzers.
David James 12 fish best 6lb Rainbow.

Carwin Williams from Llanelli wins the 2009 Colin Miller Memorial Competition.
The Colin Miller Memorial Competition was held for its fourth occasion on the weekend raising money for a worthy cause. With a good turn out and the weather favourable the fishing was excellent with a total of 79 trout being caught.
Most of the fishing was from the surface with the trout feeding on emerging buzzers throughout the day.
Carwin fishing a diawl bach and buzzers caught a total of 14 Rainbows and 1 Brown to win the competition convincingly, second place was Craig Williams catching 8 Rainbows and one Brown and third place went Peter Furnell again catching 9 Rainbows missing out on second place by 8oz.

The Fishery would like to pass on its thanks to all those involved on the weekend and to Tight Lines Tackle Shop in Ammanford for providing the prizes.

The fishing is still excellent with the majority of fish still being caught in the top foot of water.
Crystal Clear water and prolific hatches of buzzers all week, Hugh Weir excelled in these conditions using olive and black shipmans buzzers, in two day’s he caught a total of 34 fish including some superb Brown trout to 5 1/2lb all the fish fighting extremely hard.
Still no sign of the impending first hatches of olives and up wing’s, but there have been reports of fish tailing in the shallow bay’s, this is a sure sign that the nymph’s are starting to get active.
Top flys, Olive and black shipmans, Diawl bach, Crunchers, CDC’s.
Tight Lines.
Jamie.

The lake is fishing excellent with clear water and tremendous hatches of Buzzers and Hawthorn’s bringing what seems like every fish in the lake to the surface to feed.
Eliott Penn from Cardiff had a brilliant day’s fishing catching 7 Rainbows and 2 Brownies biggest 4 lb. Eliott fished a size 12″ Hawthorn and a size 16 F Fly fishing the shallow bay on the island.
The final winter league competition was held on the weekend and was won by Neil Watson from Swansea Neil caught 17 fish which catapulted him from 6th in the winter league to finish 3rd overall.
Kevin Bower came a close second on the day catching 16 fish and second place in the championship.
Ammanford’s Matthew Jones win’s the title of Garnffrwd winter Champion 2008-2009 Matthew was consistent in all but two of the series of competitions and came first in January and February.
A big thank you from the fishery to all those that fished the competition’s over the last 6 months.

Check out Eliot Pen’s monster brown trout caught on video here. Enjoy!
It’s not Mr.Majestik though or Mobi so they are still waiting for you!

Overall Leaders board updated 10th March 2009

1st Matthew Jones 29 points bag weight 89.17 lb
2nd Kevin Bower 18 points bag weight 78 lb
3rd Chris Bishop 16 points bag weight 42 .4 lb
4th John Thomas 16 points bag weight 38.8 lb
5th Craig Williams 15 points bag weight 49.12 lb
6th Neil Watson 15 points bag weight 49.2 lb
7th Gordan Bishop 10 points bag weight 23 lb
8th Layton Williams 9 points bag weight 33 lb
9th David Thomas 8 points bag weight 37.5 lb
10th Rob Bending 8 points bag weight 16.9 lb
11th Rob Pullen 6 points bag weight 12 lb
12th Barry Stern 2 points bag weight 10 lb
13th Chris Jones 2 points bag weight 7.8 lb
14th Andrew Evans 1 point bag weight 9.9 lb

Despite the very changeable weather the fishing has been good with some cracking Brown trout being caught as well.

Damsel nymph’s and blood worms are accounting for the majority of Rainbows caught, Nigel White used a Damsels to catch a total of 22 fish on one day alone, so to did Mike Long catching and returning 18 Rainbows.

Dennis Thorp had a great week fishing on two days he caught a number of good Rainbows and also managed to land 3 cracking Brown’s weighing 5.4lb 7.3lb and 9.14lb all were safely returned to the lake. Dennis caught his fish on a size 14 shipmans just bellow the surface.

In the next few weeks we will be seeing the first hatches of olive’s and spinners which will bring all the big Browns and Rainbows to feed close to and on the surface providing some of the best fly fishing your ever likely to experience “I for one can’t wait.

Result of February round

1st Matthew Jones 10 points bag weight 24.3 lb
2nd Robert Bending 8 points bag weight 16.9 lb
3rd Neil Watson 6 points bag weight 14.2 lb
4th John Thomas 4 points bag weight 14 lb
5th Kevin Bower 2 points bag weight 14 lb
6th Craig Williams 1 point bag weight 12.12 lb

Leader Board for January 25th Round 4 Garnffrwd Challenge

1st Matthew Jones 15 fish bag weight 30.14lb
2nd Neil Watson 14 fish bag weight 29lb
3rd Chris Bishop 14 fish bag weight 28.4lb
4th Kevin Bower 13 fish bag weight 26lb
5th David Thomas 12 fish bag weight 25.5lb
6th Layton williams 10 fish bag weight 20lb

Overall leaders board

1st Matthew Jones 19 points bag weight 65.14lb
2nd Kevin Bower 16 points bag weight 64lb
3rd Chris Bishop 16 points bag weight 42.4lb
4th Craig Williams 14 points bag weight 37lb
5th John Thomas 12 points bag weight 24.8lb
6th Gordan Bishop 10 points bag weight 23lb
7th Neil Watson 9 points bag weight 35ib
8th Layton Williams 9 points bag weight 33lb
9th David Thomas 8 points bag weight 37.5lb
10th Rob Pullen 6 points bag weight 12lb
11th Barry Stern 2 points bag weight 10lb
12th Chris Jones 2 points bag weight 7.8lb
13th Andrew Evans 1 point bag weight 9.9lb

Fishing over the last week has been exceptional, The fish are fighting extremely hard and good numbers are being caught “Winter fishing at its best.“
On the milder and calmer day’s fish are rising well to hatches of buzzers but the best results seem to be from intermediate line’s fishing a damsel with a slow retrieve.
Blood worm’s fished deep and almost static are also getting good results.
The weekend saw the January round of the winter league competitions which saw a total of 123 fish coming to the net which I believe is a fishery record for a day’s fishing.
Matthew Jones came first with a total of 15 fish caught on the day he also leads the Championship with 19 points, Neil Watson Came a close second catching 14 fish with a total bag weight of 29lb just 2lb short of Matthew’s.