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.
Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
A good match for this venue — most conditions are close to what it fishes best in.
A small Bodmin Moor trout fishery set in an old china clay pit, with a long-running local profile and a practical appointment-led access model. The official site says only Mallard Lake is currently open, with Teal Lake temporarily closed; Mallard is fly-fishing only and stocked with rainbow and brown trout from roughly 1.5 lb up to double-figure fish. It is a compact, managed stillwater that runs daily in summer and on reduced winter days, with opening hours from 8am to dusk.
A small Bodmin Moor trout fishery set in an old china clay pit, with a long-running local profile and a practical appointment-led access model.
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.
Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
A good match for this venue — most conditions are close to what it fishes best in.
A small Bodmin Moor trout fishery set in an old china clay pit, with a long-running local profile and a practical appointment-led access model. The official site says only Mallard Lake is currently open, with Teal Lake temporarily closed; Mallard is fly-fishing only and stocked with rainbow and brown trout from roughly 1.5 lb up to double-figure fish. It is a compact, managed stillwater that runs daily in summer and on reduced winter days, with opening hours from 8am to dusk.
