Stillwater · Limestone · Leicestershire

Breedon Priory Fishery

Breedon Priory Fishery terrain map

Breedon Priory is a limestone-fed stillwater in Leicestershire, the kind of small managed fishery where you can park, walk twenty yards, and be fishing before you've finished your coffee.

Fair · Rainbow
Pheasant Tail Nymph · 14-16
A respectable few hours, if you choose your moments
Water temperature is the limiting factor today, not the wave. Fish dawn or dusk if you go at all, and handle everything with extra care.
48% confidence
limited data
What moved it
  • WindSE 11 km/hLight breeze
Today's fly
Pheasant Tail Nymph
Pheasant Tail Nymph14-16
Upstream, sub-surface
Conditions on the water
Live gauge
Wind
Light breeze
SE 11 km/h
N
SE
from the south-east
Wave20 cm ripple
Water temp—
Air temp31°C
CloudClear
Pressure1021 hPa
Rain · recent0.0 mm

Some readings unavailable — check directly before fishing.

How to fish it · for Rainbow
When
Conditions are not ideal but fishable at Breedon Priory Fishery. The ripple should help fish move and feed more confidently. Very warm conditions — trout have a narrower safe zone of cool, oxygen-rich water. Fish only at first light or last light, use barbless hooks, keep fish in the water during release, and stop if fish struggle to recover. Advice is based on the typical character of east midlands lowland small fisheries — local knowledge of this specific fishery will sharpen these suggestions.
Where
Start with Pheasant Tail Nymph (14-16) — on the point — slow figure-of-eight retrieve. Rainbows respond to more active retrieves — try short strips between pauses. If that does not produce, switch depth or speed before changing the pattern entirely.
The plan
Plan A

Start with Pheasant Tail Nymph (14-16) — on the point — slow figure-of-eight retrieve. Rainbows respond to more active retrieves — try short strips between pauses. If that does not produce, switch depth or speed before changing the pattern entirely.

Plan B

Fish early and late, try deeper during the heat of the day with a fast-sinking line.

Watch for

Evening tends to be the best period in summer — stay late if you can for a sedge or spinner fall.

Bank

Bank-only venue. Fish from accessible margins, points, weed edges, and inflows.

Beyond the hatch · worth watchingambient prey

Hatch predictions

Top prey shown — see all 3 with Pro.

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Through the year
0–3 scale · August highlighted
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Daphnia SwarmHatch
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Daddy Long LegsHatch
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Lake OliveHatch
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Silverhorns & LonghornsHatch
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.

Ranked for today
Rainbow fly box

Spider-heavy and practical. Strong tradition of North Country soft hackles, useful nymphing, and simple dry flies when fish rise properly.

What's coming
Plan ahead
5-day outlook
Condition match
69%
Cloud70%
Wind100%
Temp25%

A reasonable day here, though temperature isn't quite in the sweet spot.

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About this water

Breedon Priory is a limestone-fed stillwater in Leicestershire, the kind of small managed fishery where you can park, walk twenty yards, and be fishing before you've finished your coffee. The limestone gives the water a richness that shows in the buzzer hatches, and the stocked rainbows here behave like stocked rainbows everywhere — eager when fresh, distinctly more thoughtful once they've been around a while. There are browns too, quieter and more inclined to hold near structure. The thing about a water this size is that you can see most of it, which means you can watch for movement before you commit. A fish porpoising in the ripple tells you more than any fly box ever will. Best read by wind, light and water temperature.

  • Fishery
  • Limestone
Why this score
  • Wind conditions (ripple) closely match what this water fishes best in.
  • High temperatures may push fish deeper and reduce surface activity.
  • Patterns drawn from the East Midlands Lowland Small Fisheries regional profile.
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