Start with Booby (8-10) on a fast strip on floating line or static on sinking. 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. When no hatch is visible, a buzzer team — black stripped quill on the point, attractor or pearl-rib on the top dropper — is the default starting point on any UK stillwater.
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 Booby (8-10) on a fast strip on floating line or static on sinking. 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. When no hatch is visible, a buzzer team — black stripped quill on the point, attractor or pearl-rib on the top dropper — is the default starting point on any UK stillwater.
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.
