Welcome to
Rhyl and St Asaph Angling Association
Game fishing in North Wales for Sea Trout,
Wild Brown Trout, Salmon, Rainbow Trout and Grayling
2026 MEMBERSHIP is currently open in all categories.
There are several ways to join......
Contact Membership Sec. Colin Roberts 07934 669794 (Card Payment)
Email Colin at membershipRASAAA@gmail.com
Follow this web link NEW MEMBERSHIP
Join over the counter at FOXONS Llangollen (Cash/cheque only)
Membership of Rhyl and St Asaph Association offers a wide variety of game fishing opportunities with exclusive access to some of the best local river beats, a stocked member's lake, 10 rods allocated every week for Llyn Brenig / Alwen / Aled Uchaf including winter pike fishing, 5 rods on the Welsh Dee at Llanderfel / Bala, access to all other Bala A.A. waters, and a rod share with Llandeilo AA (Rivers Towy & Cothi).
IT'S TIME FOR MEMBERS TO RENEW THEIR 2026 MEMBERSHIP.
Renew Online HERE
PLEASE COMPLETE THE EASY 2025 CATCH RETURN USING THIS LINK:-
2025 ONLINE CATCH RETURN
we have RETAINED OUR 10 DAILY rods for llyn brenig/ALED/alwen this year WHICH NOW INCLUDES THE WINTER PIKE FISHING (DETAILS HERE)
OUR RIVER DEE FISHING IS NOW THROUGH 5 RODS WITH BALA & DISTRICT A.A.(DETAILS HERE)
NOW ON OUR BOOKING SYSTEM AND
VALID FROM 1.3.2026 - 28-2-2027
2026
FISHING AT
LLYN BRENIG
FOR TROUT
AND PIKE
Our Members' tickets for Llyn Brenig, Alwen Reservoir and Aled Uchaf Reservoir run from January 1st to December 31st each year.
OUR 2026 ROD ALLOCATION is for 2 RODS each Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. That's about 500 rod days bookable for members via our online booking system.
NEW FOR 2026 OUR PERMIT INCLUDES THE WINTER PIKE FISHING WHICH RUNS FROM
Oct – End of Feb (Bank)
Oct – End of Nov (Boat)
(Actual dates vary each year)
If you are pike fishing reserve your date slot as normal through our booking system but also book a peg to fish from.
Important: Click this LINK for PIKE FISHING RULES.
Llyn Brenig is a top international fishery and we are delighted to offer this opportunity to our members at no extra cost. Brenig's rainbow trout are very hard-fighting as they are raised in the lake and many grow on to a very large size! It's a different discipline for the pike angler but the chance to catch a specimen up to 30lbs.
The Alwen Reservoir no longer stocked, but will remain a multi-method fishery available to us through our booking system.
Llyn Aled Uchaf will be stocked with trout, and that will also be available to our members on the same ticket allocation as an alternative to Brenig, but multi-method.​ (Fly, spinner, worm)
Click this LINK for general information
about trout fishing at Llyn Brenig.
Please Note:
ANPR cameras at Brenig.
You need to book in at the Visitor Centre each time you go fishing there and log in your car reg. no's to avoid a parking ticket!
Above: 5lb rainbow. Tower Bay July 2023
Below: 4lb rainbow January 7th 2024
LEARN TO CAST A FLY FOR JUST £20 AT OUR
"INTRODUCTION TO FLY FISHING" EVENTS
We will be running three "Introduction to Fly Fishing" events in 2026
These will be held at our member's lake near Denbigh on
Saturday April 25th
Saturday July 4th
Saturday September 19th
Registration for the April event will open on Saturday April 14th
CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO MORE DETAILS
Following the initial demonstration our coaches will guide you through the basics
and by the end of the day you'll be casting for rainbow and brown trout
at our spring-fed lake.
The event commences at 10:30a.m. and usually finishes around 3:30pm.
A link for registration will appear here
six weeks prior to each event.
Cost for adult non-members - £20
All association members and any u-16's - FREE
ABOUT US
The aim of Rhyl & St Asaph Angling Association is to offer affordable game fishing for salmon, sea trout and wild brown trout on some of the best fishing beats in the locality. The rivers of the Clwyd catchment are known to offer exciting fishing for sea trout (sewin). We have 10 beats on the River Clwyd, 10 on the River Elwy and a long beat on the River Aled, totalling over 18 miles (nearly 30Km) of bank fishing.
Rhyl & St Asaph Angling Association forms one of the oldest fishing clubs in North Wales, covering a period of over seventy years. It is a founder member of the Federation of Clwyd Angling Clubs, and a member of the Angling Trust.
An important consideration when you are looking to join a club is ease of access to the fishing and Rhyl & St Asaph AA members have easy access as many of our river beats are within 4Km of St Asaph. Sea trout and salmon will reach many of our beats much sooner than people realise after they enter the river system on a high tide at Rhyl. Whilst our waters are not tidal, a tide table is a valuable tool to have.
Of the various club waters available in the area, we have the lowest beats on the both the Clwyd and Elwy. Our Gypsy Lane beat on the Elwy is just 300 hundred yards, and our two Pont Dafydd beats just over a mile respectively above the private estate water and the famous Junction Pool beat. If you encounter salmon and sea trout here they will be fresh run.
Our members do not need to book to fish most of our river beats. Just two river beats are bookable on a split-day system 6am - 6pm or 6pm - 6am to suit the daytime and night-time anglers.
From 2026 we now have 5 rods with Bala & District AA giving year-round access to all of their waters including their beats on the Welsh Dee at Llanderfel and Bala. The Dee is one of the best grayling fisheries in Europe, host to the annual Hanak Grayling Festival. In addition we have an exchange arrangement with Llandeilo Angling Association who have water on the Towy and Cothi.
Whether you are looking to fly fish at night for the famous Welsh sewin or fish with lighter tackle for the wild brown trout in our rivers, or indeed you may be lucky in hooking a fresh run salmon – the choice is yours! All legal fishing methods are permitted (Fly, spin & worm) subject to the All-Wales Byelaws.
Stillwater Fishing:-
The Association has rods on Llyn Brenig / Alwen Reservoir / Llyn Aled Uchaf - 2 rods for our members every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday all year round. Brenig is an international fly-fishing venue, known for its hard fighting trout, reared on site. It's known as a great top of the water venue being stocked with many large rainbow trout. Alwen is not stocked now but has wild brown trout and a head of coarse fish - it is multi-method catch-and-release. Llyn Aled Uchaf is stocked with rainbow trout and available to us as a multi-method fishery (fly/spin/worm). Perhaps somewhere to take a younger relative who are not yet ready to cast a fly. n.b. Junior Members are currently not permitted to book a Brenig/Alwen/Aled rod. See Brenig Charges. However Brenig will permit a Junior Member to fish at Llyn Aled free of charge providing the bag is shared with the accompanying adult member. (3 fish bag in winter months, 6 fish bag in summer months).
Llyn Crud y Gwynt is our members' trout lake. It's a 2 acre spring-fed reservoir hidden away in a truly peaceful location. We stock it with rainbow, blue and brown trout. Barbless fly only.
For more details information please visit Our Waters page here.
Aside from the fishing, we arrange various other activities from time to time for the benefit, enjoyment and education of our members. These include beat walks, bank maintenance parties, winter fly-tying sessions, fishing seminars, fly fishing tuition events, sea-trout fishing at night taster events, kick sampling for invertebrates and water quality testing and so on. You'll find information on these throughout this website.
It goes without saying that as anglers we are a friendly bunch, always happy to help beginners on their journey to enjoying our wonderful hobby.
Our committee details are on the contact page. Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you are thinking of joining us or are already a member and need some help.
Wishing you health, happiness and tight lines for the 2026 season.
Chris Porteous
Chair, Rhyl & St Asaph AA
BEAT WALKS
GUIDED MEMBERS' BEAT WALKS
2026
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Watch this space for details of our guided beat walks
Members will also be notified by email
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Water Quality Monitoring
We carry out monitoring as part of a UK-wide Angling Trust initiative. Readings of nitrate, phosphate, ammonia concentrations, and electrical conductivity, are sent to a national database.
Parallel to this we are also part of the Anglers Riverfly Monitoring Initiative (ARMI) taking kick samples of invertebrates at four river sites, results of which are uploaded to the Riverfly database.
Monitoring our rivers is so important - think of this as the "canary in the mine".
If you would like to get involved in this very interesting project please contact any committee member.
1-day & 5-day VISITOR PERMITS
Visitor tickets are available at £15 for 1 day or £80 for 5 days.
They may be purchased at Foxons of St Asaph or online HERE
ASSOCIATION beat
maintenance PARTIES 2026
River Keepers John and Rich would love to see members on the riverbank in 2026.
Maintenance of our fishing is high on our agenda and a fun way to get to know the beats, meet other members and catch up on the fishing news.
Please click HERE for diary dates.
WE RECOMMEND THAT ALL ANGLERS
JOIN THE ANGLING TRUST
AS AN INDIVIDUAL MEMBER FOR £32
(£28 for senior citizens)
As an Angling Trust member you receive big savings on products and services from trade partners AND discounted fishing venues.
The £10m civil liability insurance alone is worth the annual fee.
Our Association is a Member of the Trust but many more individual members are needed in Wales. Moving forward we need the Trust and Fish Legal to represent game anglers in Wales and help us look after our rivers and game fishing.
For more information click on the link to the Angling Trust website
where you will see some of their campaigns on our behalf:-
Sea Trout Fishing
Fly fishing for sea trout at night is, for many anglers, the ultimate form of wild fishing.
Sea trout are genetically the same as brown trout but they migrate to the estuary and coastal waters in search of food where they grow much larger than most of their river-dwelling brothers and sisters. Most returning fish are between 12oz to 2lb, but a good number around the 4lb - 8lb range are caught. A 6 or 7 lb sea trout would be regarded as a specimen and anything approaching 10lb a fish of a lifetime.
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Our Association is centred around St Asaph in Denbighshire North Wales with 21 beats on the rivers Clwyd, Elwy and Aled, each with wild brown trout and runs of sea trout and salmon.
Because sea trout are very shy, and the river you are fishing may be low and gin clear, it is usually important to wait until it is dark before commencing fishing. Stealth is the watch word. No stray headlamp lights or stomping around the bank here. Moonless nights and warm nights with cloud cover are generally preferred and your eyes do become accustomed to the low light levels.
In the quiet of a river valley at midnight, your senses become heightened - every rustle in the undergrowth, the plop of a water vole entering the water (not heard so often these days sadly), the call of an owl or fox, a sheep with bronchitis, - all these sounds at night seem to be amplified. This can take some getting used to but once you feel at home on a familiar river bank at night, daytime fishing could seem tame!
You cast out to where you hope the fish will be, waiting to continue their upstream migration. Your team of two flies swings around in the current, nothing takes, so you retrieve, and re-cast, trying to reach as near to the other bank as possible without snagging. Four casts later and tawny owls are calling to each other and you're gazing up trying to find the North Star when something tries to snatch the rod from your grasp!
There is nothing quite like the sensation of your fly line suddenly tightening as a fresh run sea trout rips line from your reel, and, as often happens, performs a vertical leap out of the water, stopping your heart for a brief moment, adrenalin now pumping, before your fly is ejected leaving you a quivering wreck staring in disbelief as the surface of the pool settles down.
If this sounds exciting to you, you'll be pleased to know that membership of our Association is still open at a cost of £180 for the first 12 months (for adults of 21 and over). Age 16 up to 21 is just £30. Under 16's enjoy free membership. Adult renewal subscription is £165 for 2026 season.
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If you've never cast a fly before our four Angling Trust coaches can teach you. Best to learn to fly fish first at our stocked lake, and in daytime on the rivers before you venture out at night!
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And some of our experienced night fishers will be only too pleased to accompany you on your first forays in the dark and welcome you to a whole new experience. If you take to it, I guarantee it's completely addictive and for you fishing will just never be the same again!
We held a "Night fishing Taster" event in 2025 and intend to do two more in 2026.
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Chris Porteous
Chairman
Rhyl and St Asaph Angling Association
........at Night
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Please be aware that fishing is NOT PERMITTED in the area where the new power lines cross the river Elwy towards the lower end of our Pont y Ddol beat. Scottish Power are erecting warning signs to this effect - WE DO NOT OWN THE FISHING RIGHTS BETWEEN THE SIGNS. This is for your safety - the pylons are a wooden type and do not appear to be as high as the metal ones such as those at Bryn Polyn/Wern Ddu.