Start with Booby (8-10) on a fast strip on floating line or static on sinking. 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. When no hatch is visible, a buzzer team — black stripped quill on the point, attractor or pearl-rib on the top dropper — is the default starting point on any UK stillwater.
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.
A good match for Jacklands Fishing Lakes — most conditions are close to what it fishes best in.
Small mixed fishery at Jacklands Bridge, Tickenham, in the Yeo Valley near Nailsea, North Somerset, with a fly-only rainbow trout lake (~1.5 acres, fish from 2lb) and a separate coarse lake; farm shop and tea room on site. Trout lake is fly-only; coarse lake holds some brown trout among carp/bream/roach.
Small mixed fishery at Jacklands Bridge, Tickenham, in the Yeo Valley near Nailsea, North Somerset, with a fly-only rainbow trout lake (~1.
Start with Booby (8-10) on a fast strip on floating line or static on sinking. 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. When no hatch is visible, a buzzer team — black stripped quill on the point, attractor or pearl-rib on the top dropper — is the default starting point on any UK stillwater.
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
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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.
A good match for Jacklands Fishing Lakes — most conditions are close to what it fishes best in.
Small mixed fishery at Jacklands Bridge, Tickenham, in the Yeo Valley near Nailsea, North Somerset, with a fly-only rainbow trout lake (~1.5 acres, fish from 2lb) and a separate coarse lake; farm shop and tea room on site. Trout lake is fly-only; coarse lake holds some brown trout among carp/bream/roach.
