River Tanat
The club’s waters comprise 14 individual beats of the River Tanat. These commence in it’s headwaters in the Berwyn foothills just below the village of Llangynog where the Tanat is an intimate brook with bushed banks and hard fighting wild trout. Our lower boundary is at Carreghofa weir, between Llanyblodwell and Llan-y-mynech a mile or so above the Tanat’s confluence with the Vyrnwy, where the water is a much more substantial small freestone river with deep pools and stickles.
The river contains a healthy population of wild trout and a somewhat smaller head of grayling. The club’s policy is to encourage self-sustaining wild populations of these species, supplementing the native bred fish with limited stocking of brown trout as necessary to maintain sport for the membership. Trout caught on the club’s waters average 11-12” though a small number of fish of 2lb weight and above are recorded most seasons. Grayling are relatively locally distributed throughout the beats, but fish of 2-3lb plus are recorded reasonably regularly, though they are not easily located or caught.
Due to the club’s limited membership angling pressure is light, and it is likely that the fisher will have the beat to him/herself.
Fishing methods are restricted to artificial fly on all club waters, and the fish respond to dry-fly, wet spiders, nymphs and bug patterns dependent on conditions. Catch and release is encouraged, but not compulsory, except in the case of grayling, all of which must be returned.
The five-year average catch from the club’s river beats is about two trout per rod visit.
Lake fishing
Club members also have access to fly fishing for brown trout on a 9 acre upland lake set among the heather moors of the Berwyn. The water has a head of native bred brown trout, which are again supplemented by stocking of 11-13” brown trout as necessary.
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