Start with Diawl Bach (12-14) — on the bob / top dropper — slow figure-of-eight retrieve. Early in the day, try buzzers on a slow figure-of-eight or a booby on a fast-sink line near the bottom. Rainbows respond to more active retrieves — try short strips between pauses.
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.
Conditions are away from Withern Mill Trout Farm's sweet spot — it usually fishes best in ripple wind with cloud skies.
Five stocked fly-fishing lakes plus half a mile of river holding grayling, brown and rainbow trout, on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds near Alford (Church Lane, Withern, LN13 0NG). Also a working trout farm selling fresh trout products. Blue trout appear in the lake stocking as well as the browns and rainbows — a striking gunmetal fish that fights above its weight and is rather easier to catch than it is to photograph convincingly.
Five stocked fly-fishing lakes plus half a mile of river holding grayling, brown and rainbow trout, on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds near Alford (Church Lane, Withern, LN13 0NG).
Start with Diawl Bach (12-14) — on the bob / top dropper — slow figure-of-eight retrieve. Early in the day, try buzzers on a slow figure-of-eight or a booby on a fast-sink line near the bottom. Rainbows respond to more active retrieves — try short strips between pauses.
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 Withern Mill Trout Farm's sweet spot — it usually fishes best in ripple wind with cloud skies.
Five stocked fly-fishing lakes plus half a mile of river holding grayling, brown and rainbow trout, on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds near Alford (Church Lane, Withern, LN13 0NG). Also a working trout farm selling fresh trout products. Blue trout appear in the lake stocking as well as the browns and rainbows — a striking gunmetal fish that fights above its weight and is rather easier to catch than it is to photograph convincingly.
