Start with Diawl Bach (12-14) — on the bob / top dropper — slow figure-of-eight retrieve. 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.
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.
Conditions are ideal for Salford Trout Lakes — wind, cloud and temperature all line up.
Small privately-owned fly fishery of two spring-fed lakes (about 8 acres total) in North Cotswold countryside near Chipping Norton, stocked with rainbow, brown, blue, 'sparctic' and a few tiger trout; rich natural fly life suits nymph and dry-fly fishing.
Small privately-owned fly fishery of two spring-fed lakes (about 8 acres total) in North Cotswold countryside near Chipping Norton, stocked with rainbow, brown, blue, 'sparctic' and a few tiger trout; rich natural fly life suits nymph and dry-fly fishing.
Start with Diawl Bach (12-14) — on the bob / top dropper — slow figure-of-eight retrieve. 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.
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
See the full sub-surface read with Pro.
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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.
Conditions are ideal for Salford Trout Lakes — wind, cloud and temperature all line up.
Small privately-owned fly fishery of two spring-fed lakes (about 8 acres total) in North Cotswold countryside near Chipping Norton, stocked with rainbow, brown, blue, 'sparctic' and a few tiger trout; rich natural fly life suits nymph and dry-fly fishing.
