Start with Diawl Bach (12-14) — on the bob / top dropper. 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.
Good ripple suits both bank and boat. Bank: work inflows, dam walls, and points. Boat: broadside drift covering wind lanes.
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
Conditions are away from Stithians Reservoir's sweet spot — it usually fishes best in ripple wind with cloud skies.
Large 247-acre South West Lakes Trust water near Redruth — one of England's most westerly trout fisheries — fly-only from bank and boat, regularly stocked with rainbows to ~6lb over a strong natural head of brown trout; famous hawthorn and buzzer fishing on granite moorland.
Large 247-acre South West Lakes Trust water near Redruth — one of England's most westerly trout fisheries — fly-only from bank and boat, regularly stocked with rainbows to ~6lb over a strong natural head of brown trout; famous hawthorn and buzzer fishing on granite moorland.
Start with Diawl Bach (12-14) — on the bob / top dropper. 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.
Good ripple suits both bank and boat. Bank: work inflows, dam walls, and points. Boat: broadside drift covering wind lanes.
Hatch predictions
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
Conditions are away from Stithians Reservoir's sweet spot — it usually fishes best in ripple wind with cloud skies.
Large 247-acre South West Lakes Trust water near Redruth — one of England's most westerly trout fisheries — fly-only from bank and boat, regularly stocked with rainbows to ~6lb over a strong natural head of brown trout; famous hawthorn and buzzer fishing on granite moorland.
