Autumn/winter pike on the fly — big fish season. Pike are putting on condition and take large flies confidently. Fish dropping weed edges, deep channels, and structure. Start with a sinking line and move to faster-sinking as the water cools. Biggest pike of the year come in this window.
If the main plan stalls, drop to a size 14–16 midge — switch to a washing-line or suspender rig and change drift line before you change food group.
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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Probably the best pike fly fishing window of the year. Cooling water activates pike metabolism and baitfish shoal up before winter, concentrating the predators. Fish are aggressive feeders moving to windward banks, dropoffs, and points where baitfish are pushed. Large profile baitfish streamers on intermediate lines retrieved at medium pace, with pauses at structure edges. Count-down retrieves to find the active depth. Fish move — cover ground rather than working one spot.
Conditions are ideal for Porth Reservoir — wind, cloud and temperature all line up.
Carp to 34 lb, around six over 30 lb and most of the rest over 25 lb, including the much-sought mirror 'Arnie'. Bream to 12 lb, roach and rudd to 2 lb, perch to 5 lb, a few elusive tench, and pike to 24 lb in winter. Eighty swims, wheelchair platforms below the car park, and a good match water (50 lb weights to pole and feeder). Open all year, dawn to dusk; pike fishing 1 October to the end of February only. Run by South West Lakes Trust.
A 40-acre reservoir in a steep wooded valley just outside Newquay: a mature water with overhanging trees and big beds of lilies and weed.
Autumn/winter pike on the fly — big fish season. Pike are putting on condition and take large flies confidently. Fish dropping weed edges, deep channels, and structure. Start with a sinking line and move to faster-sinking as the water cools. Biggest pike of the year come in this window.
If the main plan stalls, drop to a size 14–16 midge — switch to a washing-line or suspender rig and change drift line before you change food group.
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
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
Probably the best pike fly fishing window of the year. Cooling water activates pike metabolism and baitfish shoal up before winter, concentrating the predators. Fish are aggressive feeders moving to windward banks, dropoffs, and points where baitfish are pushed. Large profile baitfish streamers on intermediate lines retrieved at medium pace, with pauses at structure edges. Count-down retrieves to find the active depth. Fish move — cover ground rather than working one spot.
Conditions are ideal for Porth Reservoir — wind, cloud and temperature all line up.
Carp to 34 lb, around six over 30 lb and most of the rest over 25 lb, including the much-sought mirror 'Arnie'. Bream to 12 lb, roach and rudd to 2 lb, perch to 5 lb, a few elusive tench, and pike to 24 lb in winter. Eighty swims, wheelchair platforms below the car park, and a good match water (50 lb weights to pole and feeder). Open all year, dawn to dusk; pike fishing 1 October to the end of February only. Run by South West Lakes Trust.
Porth Reservoir is a reservoir in South West / Cornwall (Newquay), England. The catchment geology is recorded as slate, and the water sits at about 26 m above sea level. Species listed for this water: carp, pike and perch. The coarse season is recorded as running from 1 January to 31 December. The pike season is recorded as running from 1 October to 28 February. Best window recorded for anglers: Carp May–October; pike October–February. Core methods listed: Specimen carp tactics around the lilies; pole and feeder; waggler. Nearby waters in our listings include Innis Fly Fishery at 18 km, Stithians Reservoir at 30 km and Argal Reservoir at 31 km.
