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.

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.

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.

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.

December 2008
Fishing like the weather has been up and down but in the last few day’s has picked back up with some fishermen having good catches Kevin Bower released 9 cracking rainbows fishing lure’s on a sink tip line, John Alderwinkle released 10 nice rainbows fishing cat’s whisker, blood worm & zonker’s.
Jason Williams was one of the top rod ’s catching 20 fish on a sporting ticket best fish 5lb Jason did well in the morning fishing lure’s then changed to an egg fly fished under a site indicator.
Lure’s are accounting for most of the fish caught at the moment but on those milder day’s don’t forget
the blood worm’s, buzzers and shrimp patterns.
The fishery will be open over the Christmas week only closing for Christmas Day anybody wanting to fish Boxing day will be well advised to book in advance.
Garnffrwd would like thank everybody that has fished with us in 2008, and would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and tight lines in the new year.
Garnffrwd Fishery 01269 870539