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River Brue

The River Brue flowing through Bruton, Somerset

The Brue rises on the Mendip and runs through Bruton, Glastonbury and the Somerset Levels to the Bristol Channel.

Marginal · Brown Trout
Gold-ribbed Hare's Ear · 10-14
Marginallive now
Slow going — pick your moments
River temperature is the limiting factor today, not the flow. Fish dawn or dusk if you go at all, and handle everything with extra care.
80% confidence
What moved it
  • Level0.21 mLast reading 1h ago
  • Water temp19.5°C
  • ClarityClear
Today's fly
Gold-ribbed Hare's Ear
Gold-ribbed Hare's Ear10-14
Upstream, sub-surface
Conditions on the water
Live gauge
Level
Steady
0.21 m
Last reading 1h ago
Water temp19.5°C
ClarityClear
Weather17°C
WindSW 19 km/h
Pressure1007 hPa
Rain · recent13.5 mm
Rain · ahead27.2 mm

Live readings only. Trends shown where the gauge supports them.

Water temperature for Brown Trout
Warm — slow
19.5°Cideal 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 19.5°C — above the brown trout caution line (18°C). Fish dawn or dusk only. Land it fast, wet hands, no air shots.
Hatch timeline · todayPeak at 11am

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Beyond the hatch · worth watchingambient prey(1)

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Evidence
Survey-backed · regionalModerate confidence

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

Through the year
0–3 scale · August highlighted
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CapererHatch
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Heather FlyHatch
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Autumn DunHatch
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.

Ranked for today
Brown Trout fly box

A small Mendip-edge wild-brown stream around Bruton — modest fish, quiet water, and a short hop when the bigger rivers are busy. It turns coarse below Lovington.

What's coming
Plan ahead
5-day outlook
Cooler water nearby · 3
Water here at 19.5°C — the fishing's alive, but these are cooler if you'd rather rest the warm water.
Chew Valley Lake
28 km
~15°C
Brown trout · Rainbow trout
Blagdon Lake
31 km
~17°C
Brown trout · Rainbow trout
Sutton Bingham Reservoir
29 km
~19°C
Rainbow trout · Carp
Gallery · 2
  1. The River Brue flowing through Bruton, Somerset
    River Brue at Bruton, Somerset
  2. Terrain map of the venue
    Terrain map
About this water

The Brue rises on the Mendip and runs through Bruton, Glastonbury and the Somerset Levels to the Bristol Channel. The fly fishing is the upper river around Bruton — a short stretch of wild brown trout water below the Bruton Dam, mostly fished by Bruton and District Angling Association. The water has a slight chalk-stream character from the Mendip limestone influence but fishes as a modest small-stream trout fishery rather than a chalk destination. Below Lovington the river enters the Levels and turns coarse. Bruton Dam is the practical upstream limit for fly fishing.

  • Mixed
The full read · show the working · for Brown Trout · confidence 80%
How the 31 is built — score × weight = contribution
Temperature18 × 28%5.0
Flow80 × 22%17.6
Clarity95 × 18%17.1
Feeding Time75 × 13%9.8
Pressure80 × 7%5.6
Insect activity55 × 12%6.6
Limiting factor: Water temperature (19.5°C) is outside Brown Trout's preferred range (10–16°C)= 62
Can you trust it?
Water temperaturelive gauge readinggauge
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.
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Seasons & zones
  • Trout 15 March → 30 September
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