Start with Diawl Bach (12-14) — on the bob / top dropper — 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.
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.
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
A reasonable day here, though temperature isn't quite in the sweet spot.
Two spring-fed fly-and-nymph-only lakes 200 yards from the River Test on the outskirts of King's Somborne, Test Valley, stocked with quality rainbow and brown trout and benefiting from the Test's natural fly life and mayfly hatch. NOTE: batch listed this as Lancashire, but no Lancashire 'John O Gaunt' fly fishery exists; the operational venue is in Hampshire (a North Yorkshire reservoir of similar name is club-only).
Two spring-fed fly-and-nymph-only lakes 200 yards from the River Test on the outskirts of King's Somborne, Test Valley, stocked with quality rainbow and brown trout and benefiting from the Test's natural fly life and mayfly hatch.
Start with Diawl Bach (12-14) — on the bob / top dropper — 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.
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.
A reasonable day here, though temperature isn't quite in the sweet spot.
Two spring-fed fly-and-nymph-only lakes 200 yards from the River Test on the outskirts of King's Somborne, Test Valley, stocked with quality rainbow and brown trout and benefiting from the Test's natural fly life and mayfly hatch. NOTE: batch listed this as Lancashire, but no Lancashire 'John O Gaunt' fly fishery exists; the operational venue is in Hampshire (a North Yorkshire reservoir of similar name is club-only).
