Insect Hatches for Clywedog

First hatch of the season is the spring buzzer mainly black around size 12. One of the best areas for this is the middle of the popular side off the Christmas trees but they will hatch all over the lake with the odd green one as well.

Next comes the Hawthorn fly around Mid May watch out for these all along the popular side.

Not so well known as the hawthorn but in recent years the alder has been more plentiful than the Hawthorn fly.

The Cow Dung flyhas become a main part of the Trouts diet over recent years and seems to like a warm wet summer, they hatch in good numbers from Braich y ffedew, Gronwen, and the popular side

Next and probably the most well known at Clywedog the Coch y bonddu beetle hatches during late June and early July they like a dry warm period in the weather and hatch in good numbers from Braich y ffedew all the way the Bwlch y gle along the northern shore.

Sedges are very much an evening hatch on Clywedog like the more shallower parts of the lake such as Bigga arm, Braich y ffedew and along the popular side into rainbow corner.

The heather fly hatch can be one of the more dramatic hatches and when they do come onto the water the Trout feed avidly on them. Not being great flyers they tend to keep their heads down on winder days but when the wind is light they will take to the air and get blown onto the water. Areas to watch out for these are Bigga arm and popular side.

The most famous of all Trout flies the Daddy hatch has not been as good in recent years but always do put in an appearance and the imitation will nearly always trigger a response from a hungry trout

The autumn buzzer hatch tends to be a frustrating time for the angler with large number of fish feeding on the surface and difficult to tempt the difference to the spring buzzer is size as these tend to be size 14-16 as opposed to 10-12 in the spring and accurate casting is called for when covering feeding fish as they move around mopping up the emerging buzzer on cloudy autumn days.