Latest fishing reports from Ty'n y Cornel and Talyllyn

The latest fishing report from Ty'n y Cornel Hotel and Talyllyn lake is as follows -
A busy month saw lots of anglers on the water, pleasure fishing and a few small club competitions which resulted in a lot of nice brownies caught and released.
Llandysul anglers had a day out with many members of the current Commonwealth team in their ranks.
There were a lot of big bags of fish recorded and mostly returned.
Jeff Thomson and boat partner caught approximately 30 fish; top sea trout guide Steffan Jones caught 15 fish, Andrew Banner and Jamie Harries boated 15 fish.
But the winner on the day was Welsh international Dion Davies, who out-fished everyone, including his father Eric Davies, also a Welsh international.
A few days later it was the turn of North Wales Police who had one of their eliminators for the Welsh Police Team.
With more than 100 fish caught and released, good sport was had by all.
The winner on the day was Simon Newport.
David Morgan won the prize for best fish, which weighed 1lb 12oz.
There were a lot of fish in the 10–12 inches range, which were native fish and all were returned to grow on to fight again.
Colin Jones and his boat partner caught more than 30 fish, mainly wild, which were returned.
Colin says it was difficult to kill these truly beautiful fish and all browns should be returned, a case here for catch and release to preserve the indiginous species.
It was Ammanford Angling Club's first club competition of the year on Sunday, with 16 anglers taking part in a friendly competition, eight of whom had stayed and fished the day before and all insisted that they were not competitive!
With a few anglers nursing sore heads, a bright and breezy day awaited them. A lot of anglers recorded some sea trout smolts and all had good sport. Winner on the day was Welsh Coach and international Malcolm Edwards.
In between these club competitions, there were severtal other notable catches reported.
Mr Neil Thomas caught 21 fish on olives and wets, Mrs Sue Morgan caught and returned five browns on olives and Kate McClaren flies.
Welsh international Trevor Jones caught 22 fish on a part day ticket! On mainly olives, and Kate Mclarens, fished on a fast glass intermediate line, Trevor caught all his fish by casting into gaps between the weeds!
Rich Thomas, of Bala, caught nine browns on olives.
Paul Welling caught 10 fish on a damsel nymph and a teal and green.
Dai Owen and Gwyn Owen caught 17 fish on green peters, black pennels and small lures.
Alex Ferguson/W Ferguson caught 37 fish over a two-day break. These took olive, hares ears, nymphs, Kate Mclarens.
Olives are still hatching daily and black buzzers are also plentiful, when the wind drops diawl bachs, various nymphs and dries will take fish.
On windier days, Kate Mclarens, Bibio’s, Williams favorites, Black Pennels, Claret Bumbles, Greenwells Glory, Harry Toms will be worth using.
Week Ending 2nd May 2010
After a cold start to the month spring finally arrived at Tal y Llyn, with warmer South Westerlies and overcast conditions. This was the perfect stage for the olives, and on cue they started to hatch one by one. After a few days they were abundant, like an armada of mini windsurfers!
Swallows and Sand Martins were seen feeding on these and the browns were also mopping them up.
There were some large resident fish seen feeding on the fresh olives with just a head and tail rise.
Saturday saw the Welsh Youth Team out on the water, being shown boat handling, entomology, and the art of the dry fly.
A total of 35 fish were caught and safely returned to the lake for another day.
Top bag of the day went to Jamie Phillips who caught an impressive 11 fish on olives.
Reports by Head Ghillie Phil Wood.
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