Start with Floating Fry (8-10) on a Fish as a single fly. 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.
A fry-imitating pattern stripped through the margins can save a blank in autumn.
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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A good match for John O Gaunt's Fishery — most conditions are close to what it fishes best in.
Two spring-fed fly-and-nymph-only lakes 200 yards from the River Test on the outskirts of King's Somborne, Test Valley, stocked with quality rainbow and brown trout and benefiting from the Test's natural fly life and mayfly hatch. NOTE: batch listed this as Lancashire, but no Lancashire 'John O Gaunt' fly fishery exists; the operational venue is in Hampshire (a North Yorkshire reservoir of similar name is club-only).
Two spring-fed fly-and-nymph-only lakes 200 yards from the River Test on the outskirts of King's Somborne, Test Valley, stocked with quality rainbow and brown trout and benefiting from the Test's natural fly life and mayfly hatch.
Start with Floating Fry (8-10) on a Fish as a single fly. 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.
A fry-imitating pattern stripped through the margins can save a blank in autumn.
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
Top nymph shown — see all 3 guilds as a supporter.
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Hatch predictions
Top prey shown — see all 5 as a supporter.
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
Fly recommendations
Point fly shown — supporters see the whole team, sizes and why.
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A good match for John O Gaunt's Fishery — most conditions are close to what it fishes best in.
Two spring-fed fly-and-nymph-only lakes 200 yards from the River Test on the outskirts of King's Somborne, Test Valley, stocked with quality rainbow and brown trout and benefiting from the Test's natural fly life and mayfly hatch. NOTE: batch listed this as Lancashire, but no Lancashire 'John O Gaunt' fly fishery exists; the operational venue is in Hampshire (a North Yorkshire reservoir of similar name is club-only).
