Start with Booby (8-10) on a fast strip on floating line or static on sinking. Evening can produce explosive surface takes — try a foam beetle or booby on a long leader. Rainbows respond to more active retrieves — try short strips between pauses. When no hatch is visible, a buzzer team — black stripped quill on the point, attractor or pearl-rib on the top dropper — is the default starting point on any UK stillwater.
Fish early and late, try deeper during the heat of the day with a fast-sinking line.
Evening tends to be the best period in summer — stay late if you can for a sedge or spinner fall.
Bank-only venue. Fish from accessible margins, points, weed edges, and inflows.
Hatch predictions
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
Conditions are away from Great Burrows Trout Fishery's sweet spot — it usually fishes best in ripple wind with cloud skies.
Small private fly-only stillwater at Nibley Green near Dursley, Gloucestershire (not Devon as the batch hint stated). Stocks triploid rainbow and blue trout 2-5lb with a few catch-and-release browns; fishing from platforms, barbless, catch-and-kill on rainbows.
Small private fly-only stillwater at Nibley Green near Dursley, Gloucestershire (not Devon as the batch hint stated).
Start with Booby (8-10) on a fast strip on floating line or static on sinking. Evening can produce explosive surface takes — try a foam beetle or booby on a long leader. Rainbows respond to more active retrieves — try short strips between pauses. When no hatch is visible, a buzzer team — black stripped quill on the point, attractor or pearl-rib on the top dropper — is the default starting point on any UK stillwater.
Fish early and late, try deeper during the heat of the day with a fast-sinking line.
Evening tends to be the best period in summer — stay late if you can for a sedge or spinner fall.
Bank-only venue. Fish from accessible margins, points, weed edges, and inflows.
Hatch predictions
Top prey shown — see all 3 with Pro.
Start free trial14-day free trial. Cancel anytime.
Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
Conditions are away from Great Burrows Trout Fishery's sweet spot — it usually fishes best in ripple wind with cloud skies.
Small private fly-only stillwater at Nibley Green near Dursley, Gloucestershire (not Devon as the batch hint stated). Stocks triploid rainbow and blue trout 2-5lb with a few catch-and-release browns; fishing from platforms, barbless, catch-and-kill on rainbows.
