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 fishing near inflows, dam walls, and weed beds. Move to find feeding fish.
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
Conditions are ideal for Damerham Trout Fisheries — wind, cloud and temperature all line up.
An iconic chalk-stream-fed stillwater complex beside the River Allen between the New Forest and Cranborne Chase, home of the Damerham Blue Trout, with three miles of bank fishing, no wading, dry fly and nymph only. Long a members' water, now also day-ticket by advance booking.
An iconic chalk-stream-fed stillwater complex beside the River Allen between the New Forest and Cranborne Chase, home of the Damerham Blue Trout, with three miles of bank fishing, no wading, dry fly and nymph only.
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 fishing near inflows, dam walls, and weed beds. Move to find feeding fish.
Hatch predictions
See the full sub-surface read with Pro.
Start free trial14-day free trial. Cancel anytime.
Hatch predictions
Top prey shown — see all 5 with Pro.
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
Conditions are ideal for Damerham Trout Fisheries — wind, cloud and temperature all line up.
An iconic chalk-stream-fed stillwater complex beside the River Allen between the New Forest and Cranborne Chase, home of the Damerham Blue Trout, with three miles of bank fishing, no wading, dry fly and nymph only. Long a members' water, now also day-ticket by advance booking.
