Breedon Priory is a limestone-fed stillwater in Leicestershire, the kind of small managed fishery where you can park, walk twenty yards, and be fishing before you've finished your coffee. The limestone gives the water a richness that shows in the buzzer hatches, and the stocked rainbows here behave like stocked rainbows everywhere — eager when fresh, distinctly more thoughtful once they've been around a while. There are browns too, quieter and more inclined to hold near structure. The thing about a water this size is that you can see most of it, which means you can watch for movement before you commit. A fish porpoising in the ripple tells you more than any fly box ever will. Best read by wind, light and water temperature.
- Fishery
- Limestone