Start with Pheasant Tail Nymph (12-16) — on the point — slow figure-of-eight retrieve. Evening can produce explosive surface takes — try a foam beetle or booby on a long leader. Rainbows respond to more active retrieves — try short strips between pauses.
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-only venue. Fish from accessible margins, points, weed edges, and inflows.
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
A reasonable day here, though temperature isn't quite in the sweet spot.
A 4-acre stream-fed natural lake set in the heart of the New Forest at Emery Down, near Lyndhurst. Clear, shallow water with an abundance of natural fly life. Stocked daily with rainbow, brown, tiger, brook and triploid trout — fishery record 19lb 1oz. Maximum 16 rods. Managed by Salisbury District Angling Club; guest tickets by member invitation only. Montana, damsels and daddy long legs do well, mimicking the rich forest insect life.
A 4-acre stream-fed natural lake set in the heart of the New Forest at Emery Down, near Lyndhurst.
Start with Pheasant Tail Nymph (12-16) — on the point — slow figure-of-eight retrieve. Evening can produce explosive surface takes — try a foam beetle or booby on a long leader. Rainbows respond to more active retrieves — try short strips between pauses.
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-only venue. Fish from accessible margins, points, weed edges, and inflows.
Hatch predictions
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
A reasonable day here, though temperature isn't quite in the sweet spot.
A 4-acre stream-fed natural lake set in the heart of the New Forest at Emery Down, near Lyndhurst. Clear, shallow water with an abundance of natural fly life. Stocked daily with rainbow, brown, tiger, brook and triploid trout — fishery record 19lb 1oz. Maximum 16 rods. Managed by Salisbury District Angling Club; guest tickets by member invitation only. Montana, damsels and daddy long legs do well, mimicking the rich forest insect life.
