Autumn/winter pike on the fly — big fish season. Pike are putting on condition and take large flies confidently. Fish dropping weed edges, deep channels, and structure. Start with a sinking line and move to faster-sinking as the water cools. Biggest pike of the year come in this window.
If the main plan stalls, drop to a size 14–16 midge — switch to a washing-line or suspender rig and change drift line before you change food group.
Keep an eye on changing conditions — wind shifts and cloud breaks can trigger short feeding spells.
Bank-only venue. Fish from accessible margins, points, weed edges, and inflows.
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Probably the best pike fly fishing window of the year. Cooling water activates pike metabolism and baitfish shoal up before winter, concentrating the predators. Fish are aggressive feeders moving to windward banks, dropoffs, and points where baitfish are pushed. Large profile baitfish streamers on intermediate lines retrieved at medium pace, with pauses at structure edges. Count-down retrieves to find the active depth. Fish move — cover ground rather than working one spot.
Conditions are ideal for Argal Reservoir — wind, cloud and temperature all line up.
Carp to 40 lb (the best-known fish, 'The Secret', comes out around that weight, and fish have gone to nearly 43 lb), pike to 25 lb, a big head of bream averaging over 5 lb, perch to 3 lb, and good roach and rudd; tench and eels too. Twenty-five swims. Pike fishing is winter only, 1 October to the end of February. Open all year, dawn to dusk. Run by South West Lakes Trust.
A 65-acre reservoir near Penryn and Falmouth with a national name for carp, many of them moved here long ago from College Reservoir next door.
Autumn/winter pike on the fly — big fish season. Pike are putting on condition and take large flies confidently. Fish dropping weed edges, deep channels, and structure. Start with a sinking line and move to faster-sinking as the water cools. Biggest pike of the year come in this window.
If the main plan stalls, drop to a size 14–16 midge — switch to a washing-line or suspender rig and change drift line before you change food group.
Keep an eye on changing conditions — wind shifts and cloud breaks can trigger short feeding spells.
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.
Probably the best pike fly fishing window of the year. Cooling water activates pike metabolism and baitfish shoal up before winter, concentrating the predators. Fish are aggressive feeders moving to windward banks, dropoffs, and points where baitfish are pushed. Large profile baitfish streamers on intermediate lines retrieved at medium pace, with pauses at structure edges. Count-down retrieves to find the active depth. Fish move — cover ground rather than working one spot.
Conditions are ideal for Argal Reservoir — wind, cloud and temperature all line up.
Carp to 40 lb (the best-known fish, 'The Secret', comes out around that weight, and fish have gone to nearly 43 lb), pike to 25 lb, a big head of bream averaging over 5 lb, perch to 3 lb, and good roach and rudd; tench and eels too. Twenty-five swims. Pike fishing is winter only, 1 October to the end of February. Open all year, dawn to dusk. Run by South West Lakes Trust.
Argal Reservoir is a reservoir in South West / Cornwall (Falmouth), England. The catchment geology is recorded as slate, and the water sits at about 80 m above sea level. Species listed for this water: carp, pike and perch. The coarse season is recorded as running from 1 January to 31 December. The pike season is recorded as running from 1 October to 28 February. Best window recorded for anglers: Carp May–October; pike October–February. Core methods listed: Specimen carp tactics; feeder for bream; pike lures and deadbaits in winter. Nearby waters in our listings include Stithians Reservoir at 6.0 km, Treemeadow Trout Fishery at 18 km and Bussow Reservoir at 27 km.
