County guide
Fly Fishing in Conwy
20 bookable beats 5 rivers 1 fishery Day rod £30–£50
13 beats sell day tickets
You can book a day rod without joining a club or syndicate.
A typical day is £35
From £30 to £50, across 4 beats with published day rates.
Trout season 20 Mar – 17 Oct
Each beat sets its own dates, and every listing carries them.
About fly fishing in Conwy
Conwy fly fishing on FishingBeats is mostly stillwater. Fourteen of the 20 waters we list are lakes and reservoirs, from Welsh Water’s reservoirs to high llyns in Snowdonia. The rest are the Conwy and its tributaries around Betws-y-Coed and Llanrwst, plus the Elwy and Aled. We list only part of the county, and nearly everything is sold by a club, an association or the water company, each with its own rules.
Welsh Water sells five reservoirs from the Llyn Brenig visitor centre, and also online and from the permit machines in the car park. Llyn Brenig is stocked weekly from March to September and is fly only, fished from the bank or Welsh Water’s own boats, at £28.50 for a full day with up to six fish and brown trout returned. Llyn Aled Uchaf is stocked too, at £23 a day. Cronfa Alwen and Llyn Aled Isaf are unstocked and catch and release, at £16 a day, and Llyn Cowlyd, an unstocked trout water above Dolgarrog, is £17.50. A Natural Resources Wales rod licence is needed.
The Fishing Passport is an online booking system run on a not for profit basis by the Wye and Usk Foundation. It doesn’t own or lease any water; each beat stays with its owner. Here it sells Dolgarrog Fishing Club’s llyns, all bank fishing with a limit of two fish: Llyn Coedty, a reservoir of 12 acres, and Eigiau, Melynllyn and Dulyn on the edge of the Carneddau. Dulyn is 33 acres and 189 feet deep, and lightly fished because it is about a 2.8 mile walk from the road. It also sells Ogwen Valley Angling Association’s Ffynnon Lloer, fly only at 673m after a 45 to 60 minute walk, and Llyn Bochlwyd, a steep climb to wild browns up to ½lb. Prices load by date on the booking page, so we show none.
Betws-y-Coed Anglers Club leases Llyn Elsi, bank fishing only with a limit of three fish, and a day ticket is £25, bought by emailing the club secretary. Llanrwst Anglers Club fishes Llyn Bodgynydd, an upland lake in the Gwydir Forest above Trefriw where most of the shore is hard to reach on foot, for wild brown trout. A day ticket is £15. Tan-y-Mynydd Trout Fishery, at Moelfre near Abergele, has five pools dug in 1971, three fly only and two taking bait and fly, open all year from dawn to dusk except Christmas Day. We show no prices for it.
On the rivers, Betws-y-Coed Anglers Club manages the Gwydyr Fishery, two beats on the Conwy and about two miles of the lower Lledr, and has its own run of pools on the Llugwy, all for salmon and sea trout (sewin). On each, a salmon day ticket is £50 from dawn till dusk and a sea trout ticket £35 from dusk till dawn. Llanrwst Anglers Club has the lower Conwy just above the tidal limit, where a day ticket is £30 and sea trout fish best in July and August. Rhyl and St Asaph Angling Association sells day tickets on the Aled at Llansannan but gives no price, and its Elwy beat at Bron Heulog is for members only.
It suits an angler happy to book water by water, and to walk for the high lakes.
October on the water
The season turns
Trout beats close through this month and grayling water opens. A transitional few weeks: what is bookable depends on the beat, so check the dates rather than assuming.
- Season
- Trout season open
- Typical day rod
- £35
- from 3 priced beats
Four ways into Conwy
Most people arrive here with one of these four questions. Pick the one that sounds like yours.
Where to fly fish in Conwy
Every beat and fishery we list in the county, plotted against the boundary. Click a river to read what that stretch is like.
Fly fishing rivers in Conwy
Every river we list in Conwy, busiest first.
Day ticket fly fishing in Conwy
Browse all 20 beatsDay tickets and permits on Conwy's rivers. Each listing includes pricing, species, and booking details.
Llyn Bodgynydd
£15 per rod
Ogwen Valley Angling Association, Ffynnon Lloer
On enquiry
River Conwy
River Conwy, Betws-y-Coed
£50 per rod
River Conwy
River Conwy, Llanrwst
£30 per rod
River Elwy
River Elwy, Bron Heulog
On enquiry
Afon Lledr
River Lledr, Betws-y-Coed
£50 per rod
Llyn Brenig
£16 for 3 fish, then C&R
Llyn Cowlyd
£17.50 per rod
Ogwen Valley Angling Association, Llyn Bochlwyd
On enquiry
Afon Llugwy
River Llugwy, Betws-y-Coed
£50 per rod
Afon Aled
River Aled, Llansannan
On enquiry
Fish species in Conwy
What the beats above hold, and where else in England you can fish for the same species.
Three different kinds of operator, and most visitors want the first. A fishery or estate owns the water and sells you a day on it. A club or syndicate holds water for its members, sometimes with day tickets alongside. A guide or agent sells days on water somebody else owns, and often comes with you.
Fisheries and estate waters in Conwy
Fishery operators taking bookings on Conwy's rivers. Each listing covers tickets, accommodation, and equipment hire where available.
Clubs and syndicates in Conwy
Membership bodies holding water in Conwy. Some sell day tickets alongside membership, others are members-only, and a few run a waiting list.
Fly fishing guides and booking agents in Conwy
Agents selling day tickets and guides running days on Conwy's beats.
Finding fly fishing near you in Conwy
The map above plots Conwy's beats and fisheries against the county boundary, so you can see roughly how far a stretch is rather than just its name on a list. Tap a marker for a quick read on price and species before you go further. If you're weighing this county against somewhere else, or want to see every day-ticket beat in the country at once, the full beat map covers all of them.
A day ticket is usually a half day or a full day on the water, so it's worth weighing the drive against how much fishing you'll actually get out of it. A longer trip makes more sense for a full day than for two or three hours in the afternoon.
For scale, the River Conwy rises near Migneint moor, where small streams flow into Llyn Conwy, and the Afon Aled rises near Llyn Aled on Mynydd Hiraethog, south of Llansannan. Beats sit further downstream from there, not at the source itself. The map above is the more exact guide to which stretch is closest to you.
Fly fishing lessons and tuition in Conwy
FishingBeats doesn't list fly fishing schools or dedicated instructors: the agents and guides above are the ones selling day tickets and guided days on Conwy's beats. Some may be willing to teach alongside a day out even where it isn't sold as a separate product, so it's worth asking rather than assuming either way. That's a different thing from starting from scratch, though: a guided day generally assumes you can already cast, where a lesson teaches the cast itself, and most UK fly fishing lessons for that begin on a stillwater rather than a river. How tuition, guided days and courses fit together is covered on the agents page. Once you can put a fly out, easy beats rated for a first visit or beats where you can arrange a ghillie are a reasonable next step, and a few beginner-friendly beats to start on is worth reading before you book.
FAQ
Conwy fly fishing FAQs
The questions people ask before booking a day in Conwy, answered from what we actually list.
01Is all the fly fishing in Conwy private?
02What does a day's fly fishing cost in Conwy?
03When is the fly fishing season in Conwy?
04Which Conwy river should I fish first?
05Do I need a rod licence to fish in Conwy?
Worth a read
Fly fishing in other counties
Nearest first, measured from where Conwy's fishing actually is rather than from the county town.
£35 typical day
Day rods from £30 to £50
