A southerly has held for 7 hours, running warmer than the water (19°C air against 16°C water). Expect fish at the northern end — the bank it is blowing into — where the drift piles food, colour and warmth together. This reads the upper water, though — a bottom bait at range feels it far less than a floater or a fish in the margins. Treat it as a tiebreaker between good swims rather than an override — features and angling pressure usually count for more.
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.
Terrestrials may strengthen through the middle of the day as conditions warm.
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.
Conditions are away from Leominstead Lake Fishery's sweet spot — it usually fishes best in ripple wind with cloud skies.
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.
A southerly has held for 7 hours, running warmer than the water (19°C air against 16°C water). Expect fish at the northern end — the bank it is blowing into — where the drift piles food, colour and warmth together. This reads the upper water, though — a bottom bait at range feels it far less than a floater or a fish in the margins. Treat it as a tiebreaker between good swims rather than an override — features and angling pressure usually count for more.
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.
Terrestrials may strengthen through the middle of the day as conditions warm.
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.
Conditions are away from Leominstead Lake Fishery's sweet spot — it usually fishes best in ripple wind with cloud skies.
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.
