Hi John fished Upper Gwydyr beat Sunday pm/eve until 1am. Few large fish moving at the Conwy neck of TYC and one in the tail before dusk. Suspect neck fish were salmon. Once darkness fell, 4 large ST (5-8 lbs) showing in the mid to tail section, (every 30 mins or so), covered them with almost everything in my box using 3 different rod/lines. Not even a nudge. Midges were out but not too bad, took a full range of sprays. Will try to get out tomorrow again, perseverance is the key….

 

Sounds promising Myles.
Nice to see a few good fish! Probably running through on these higher water levels, but a big tube in the tail or neck might interest them.
Tightlines.

 

I had a couple of hours on the Conwy today with the switch. Nothing seen but it was nice to on this beautiful fly water again.

 

Looks lovely there mate 👍

 

It is a stunning river Spencer, with some great fly pools for salmon and sea trout.

Below Betws y Coed the river is wider and runs through a fairly flat valley bottom. The pools offer excellent day time fly fishing for salmon when there is extra water in the river. Nice easy wading on a clean gravel bottom.

Above Betws it changes in character to more resemble a Highland spate river with a steeper gradient and a series of discrete holding pools separated by fast runs, with some of the pools in mini gorges, particularly above the Lledr confluence.
Some pools are ideal for fly, spinner, shrimp or worm, and on the upper river there are lots of obvious ambush points for running fish on high water or, in the case of sewin, for fishing the fly at night in pool tails.

If God ever designed a river for game fishing, it would probably be very similar to the Conwy!

 

Decided to have a couple of hours with the double hander on the Conwy today, after the storm Amy flood.
Went down one of my favorite salmon pools but all quiet, except for my first Conwy sewin of season, a 1lb fish still showing some silver but starting to colour. Took a Cascade tube in a fast run below the railway bridge.

 

Looks a great place there by the bridge 👍

 

Its a lovely streamy run Spencer, ideal for the fly and running fish pause there.

 

Beautiful piece of water 😍