Spate · Schist · Galicia (Lugo inland)

Río Sarria

Río Sarria — Puente medieval sobre el río Celeiro, Sarria, Camino de Santiago
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Puente medieval sobre el río Celeiro, Sarria, Camino de Santiago

Diego Delso (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28147777) - CC BY-SA

An inland Lugo trout river joining the Miño near Portomarín.

Poor · Brown Trout
Klinkhammer · 14-18
Poorlive now
Not the day for it
River temperature is the limiting factor today, not the flow. This is not the day to push it. Check the thermal advice above before you head out.
80% confidence
What moved it
  • Level0.36 mLast reading 9h ago
  • Water temp21.7°C
  • ClarityClear
Today’s fly
Klinkhammer
Klinkhammer14-18
High-confidence seasonal pick
Conditions on the water
Live gauge
Level
Steady
0.36 m
Last reading 9h ago
Water temp21.7°C
ClarityClear
Weather24°C
WindN 10 km/h
Pressure1016 hPa
Rain · recent0.0 mm
Rain · ahead9.0 mm

Live readings — water temperature is an estimate where the gauge does not record it.

Water temperature for brown trout
Warm — slow
22°C est.ideal 10–16°C
0°14°28°
How to fish it · for brown trout
When
Nymphing can work through most of the day.
Where
Cover mixed depths.
Method
Start with tight-line nymphs and adjust if fish rise or drift higher.
Kit
9 ft #4 rod, floating line, 12 ft tapered leader to 4–5 lb fluoro tippet.
Why this works
⚠️ Water at 21.7°C — above the brown trout caution line (18°C). Fish dawn or dusk only. Land it fast, wet hands, no air shots. Otherwise very poor — water clarity is in the right range.
Hatch timeline · todayPeak at 6pm

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Sub-surface · on the nymphunder the surface

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Beyond the hatch · worth watchingambient prey

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Evidence
Survey-backed · regionalHigh confidence

Backed by regional invertebrate surveys; no sampling on this exact reach yet.

Through the year
0–3 scale · July highlighted
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Trout seasonSeason
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March BrownHatch
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GrannomHatch
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Large StoneflyHatch
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Yellow SallyHatch
2
3
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.

Ranked for today
Brown Trout fly box
Permits & access
Permit required — see local rules.
  • Se requiere licencia gallega
  • Clasificación de aguas de interior — consulta la orden de la Xunta de 2026 para las normas de coto y tramo en los afluentes del Miño en Lugo.
What's coming
Plan ahead
5-day outlook
Cooler water nearby · 1
Water here around 22°C — probably warm enough to stress brown trout. These are likely cooler.
Río Cabe
26 km
~17°C
Brown trout
Gallery · 2
  1. Río Sarria — Puente medieval sobre el río Celeiro, Sarria, Camino de Santiago
    Puente medieval sobre el río Celeiro, Sarria, Camino de Santiago
  2. Terrain map of the venue
    Terrain map
About this water

An inland Lugo trout river joining the Miño near Portomarín. The Sarria runs through schist-and-slate country with classic Galician interior character — wooded, broken, often slow to clear after autumn rain but steady through May and June. Wild brown trout only. Best fished in the middle reaches around Sarria town and downstream towards the Camino crossings, where pool-and-riffle structure gives short-line nymph fishing and pocket-water dry fly all the cover an angler needs.

  • Schist
The full read · show the working · for brown trout · confidence 80%
How the 16 is built — score × weight = contribution
Temperature8 × 28%2.2
Flow80 × 22%17.6
Clarity95 × 18%17.1
Feeding Time85 × 13%11.1
Pressure80 × 7%5.6
Insect activity61 × 12%7.3
Limiting factor: Water temperature (21.7°C) is outside Brown Trout's preferred range (10–16°C)= 61
Can you trust it?
Water temperatureair-to-water estimateestimated
Level / flowon-river gaugeobserved
Prey activitysurvey-backed invertebrate datasurvey
What would change the calculation
Cooler water — back toward the 10–16 °C ideal band — would lift the score and ease welfare.
Directions
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Seasons & zones
  • Trout1 May → 31 July
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