Fishing the Reservoirs of Wales Your Guide Angling with Welsh Water
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Fishing the Reservoirs of Wales Your Guide Angling with Welsh Water Welsh Water owns 91 reservoirs Locations varying in size from 2 acres to 1,026 acres and manages what is probably the single largest group of stillwater 1 Llyn Aled trout fisheries in the UK. Virtually all of the principal reservoirs 2 Llyn Brenig are available to anglers. Some of our fisheries have been leased 3 Alwen or licensed to angling clubs and associations, a separate permit is 4 Claerwen (Elan Valley) required for those fisheries. 5 Usk 6 Beacons Key to Symbols for site descriptions and maps 7 Llwyn Onn Llandudno Bangor Denbigh Mold 8 Talybont Fly fishing Parking 1 2 3 Wrexham 9 Llandegfedd Spinning Toilets Bala 10 Llys y Frân Worming Restaurant/Cafeteria 11 Rosebush Catch limit Size limit Newtown 12 6 Aberystwyth No fishing of any kind in this area 4 Rhayader Acres 200 No bank fishing in area Height above sea level in feet Fishguard Brecon 400 5 Site of Permit Office/Machine 10 6 11 Carmarthen 7 Boat fishing Haverfordwest 8 Merthyr Tydfil Ebbw Vale Bird watching Pontypool 9 Disabled fishing facilities Swansea Bridgend Cardiff Float tube available on request 1 2 Llyn Aled Llyn Brenig 1,200 920 12” 6 1,150 110 10” 6 Fly Casting (Brenig) The World Fly Fishing Championships and Fully qualified coaches will be running regular Home Fly-fishing Internationals courses every month have helped to establish an international reputation for the fishery. Anglers can Disabled enjoy fishing heather and spruce lined Boats and toilets for disabled anglers shores for hard fighting trout reared Daily Fishing Times locally in cages in the lake. Llyn Brenig Bank fishing from 8.00am is one of the few remaining fisheries Boat fishing from 9.00am preserved exclusively for fly-fishing. Closing time 1/2 hour before sunset The record rainbow trout of 17lb 5oz was taken in 2006 and a 21lb 7oz record brown Season trout in 2003. Mid Mar - 31 Oct (rainbow) 20 Mar - 17 Oct (brown) This moorland reservoir holds large Permits numbers of roach, perch and pike Season permits and boat permits are up to 22lb and is a good match venue. available at the Visitor Centre. The occasional wild bred brown trout Day permits available from machines. B4501 can add variety to the day’s catch. (Proof of address needed for all local TO DENBIGH permits). Season All year round (corase) Cafe and Shop 20 Mar - 17 Oct (brown) Open 8am - 4pm A543 Daily Fishing Times B4501 8.00am to 1/2 hour before sunset Llyn Aled Permits Permits from machine or shop at Llyn Brenig Visitor Centre Fishing Methods A543 All legal coarse fishing methods Fishing news and TO PENTREFOELAS & A5 except live bait advice available from fishing.visitwales.com TO CERRIGYDRUDION 3 4 Alwen Elan Valley & Claerwen 1,150 368 1,200 850 10” 6 10” 6 Elan Valley Claerwen Three miles west of Rhayader a series One of the few genuine wild brown of Victorian dams forms four reservoirs trout fisheries left in Wales, never with a total area of 850 acres, support restocked. a good head of wild and stocked Wilderness waters spanning brown trout. 15 kilometers of bankside and These Troutmaster waters were chosen 900 acres of wild brown trout fishing. to host the Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships in 2010. Fishing Methods No fishing at the western (conservation) Fishing Methods end of the reservoir. No fishing areas near Penbont bridge This reservoir, constructed amidst and head of Craig Goch reservoir. heather moorland in 1916, is now an Elan Valley Visitor Centre 4 900 attractive fishery with many sheltered Open 10am - 4:30pm everyday tree-lined bays. The fish feed heavily (except Christmas Day). at times on terrestrial insects including coch-y-bonddu beetles, heather flies and daddy longlegs. As an all method fishery stocked weekly with rainbow trout, Alwen is an ideal venue for a TO DENBIGH parent to initiate a child in the art of fishing. If the trout won’t bite then the Season A470 plentiful perch will oblige. 20 Mar - 17 Oct A543 Craig Goch Dam Season Daily Fishing Times ELAN ESTATE Pen y Garreg Dam Mid Mar - 31 Oct (rainbow) ½ hour before sunrise 20 Mar - 17 Oct (brown) B4501 ½ hour after sunset Caban Coch Dam Garreg Ddu Dam Daily Fishing Times Permits Claerwen Dam 8.00am to 1/2 hour before sunset Day permits only, available from the Elan Visitor Centre and from Dol y Mynach Dam Permits Mrs D Powell, Newsagent, Garth House, Permits from machine or shop TO CERRIGYDRUDION West Street, Rhayader. at Llyn Brenig Visitor Centre 5 6 Usk Beacons Situated at the head of the Taff Valley 1,400 52 in the Brecon Beacons. This reservoir 1,050 280 is primarily a wilderness fishery. There is a good natural population 9” 6 of brown trout, (4lb+ fish are taken 12” 6 annually), but a number of quality rainbows are also stocked during the season. Common practice is to use very small flies such as Black Pennell, Butcher, Mallard and Claret on this fly fishing only water. Season 20 Mar - 17 Oct (brown) Daily Fishing Times Start: 8.00am Finish: to 5pm-9pm Season This attractive upland reservoir (depending on time of year) 25 Feb - 31 Oct (rainbow) surrounded by forest and moorland, 20 Mar - 17 Oct (brown) is situated in the upper reaches of Permits the Usk Valley in the Brecon Beacons Day permits are available from Fishing Times National Park. It is one of the best machines at the Garwnant Visitor Start: 8.00am trout fisheries in Wales, rainbows Centre, also available online from Finish: 7.00pm - 9.00pm stocked. Many fish are taken on ‘Toby’ the Wye and Usk Foundation. (depending on month) spinners whilst fly fishermen use Fishing Methods Montana Nymphs, Cat’s Whiskers or The use of lead weights from 0.06g Viva variants. Fly fishing from privately (no 8 shot) to 28.4g (1oz) is prohibited. owned boats is popular. Please note, Fly fishing at west end of reservoir. the ‘Top Area’ is now fly fishing only. Permits Day permits from a ticket machine at To Brecon the reservoir. Day permits are also available on-line from the Wye and Usk Foundation. Boats A470(T) Boat anglers can use their own boats by prior arrangement only. Boats may be stored on site depending No fishing is permitted from To Merthyr Tydfil upon availability. Boats must be the dam face, overflow, in Cantref Reservoir removed during the winter. Permits can feeder streams or in side the A4059 be arranged through the Area Lands north bank conservation area. Manager (South East). 7 8 Llwyn Onn Talybont Talybont is a wilderness fishery 800 150 620 318 where the native fish are given a helping hand by an annual stocking of brown trout. The Ranunculus beds 12” 6 9” 6 by the crumbling bridge pillars are a known hotspot. Here the trout respond well to a floating line and traditional patterns such as the Coch-y-Bonddu. Season 20 Mar - 17 Oct (brown) Daily Fishing Times Start: 8.00am Finish: 7.30pm - 10.00pm Bordered by mixed woodland in the Season (depending on month) Brecon Beacons National Park, 25 Feb - 31 Oct (rainbow) Llwyn Onn is a favourite with the local 20 Mar - 17 Oct (brown) Permits anglers. It is a multi-method reservoir (Subject to weather will remain open Day permits from machine at the providing excellent sport for all to winter fishing) nearby Aber nature reserve, anglers. The east bank is a popular also available online from the Wye venue using spinners with white Daily Fishing Times and Usk Foundation. polystyrene balls on the line, small Start: 8.00am worms or Toby’s. The rainbow record Finish: 7.00pm - 9.00pm Fishing Methods trout for the water is 13lb 13oz, whilst (depending on month) Fly fishing only the largest brown trout taken weighed 10lb 4oz. Quality fish are stocked frequently from our own rearing unit. CONSERVATION AREA NO ACCESS TO BRECON Permits Day permits from machines TO BRECON at the Garwnant Visitor Centre, also available on-line from the Wye and Usk Foundation. B4558 A470(T) Fishing Methods No fishing from the dam face, TO PENDERYN overflow, feeder streams or conservation area at north east bank. The use of lead weights from Dol-y-gaer 0.06g (no. 8 shots) to 28.4g (1oz) is Reservoir N.B. No fishing from the dam face prohibited. TO MERTHYR TYDFIL and overflow. 9 10 Llandegfedd Llys y Frân 280 434 310 212 Llandegfedd Reservoir is closed until 10” 6 12” 6 March 2015 due to the construction of a brand new Visitor Center and cafe. Llandegfedd Reservoir, a Site of Permits A water set in a country park with Permits Special Scientific Interest, is set in the Available from the ranger’s ancient oak woods and distant views Season and day permits are available rolling landscape of south east Wales. waterside office. of the Preseli Mountains. The oaks are from visitor centre shop. The lake is heavily stocked, with bank Fishing permits are also available the source of many terrestrial insects Boats and boat fishing available for rainbow online from the Wye and Usk and also caterpillars. Dark lures are 30 boats with 4 stroke petrol outboard and brown trout. It is also a popular Foundation. the early season choice whilst black, venue for competitions. claret and green buzzers are useful engines are available for hire. patterns when the fish are rising to Wheelie boat Season Chironomids. Worm fishing is permitted A special boat is available for disabled 1 Mar - 31 Oct (rainbow) in certain areas.