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.
Slow down everything. A booby on a fast-sinking line, left static, can pick up deep fish.
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.
A reasonable day here, though temperature isn't quite in the sweet spot.
The fishing is kept light on purpose: predator season only, from designated swims among overhanging branches, steep banks and soft mud, with the water usually full in winter. Pike to 24 lb have come out, and the watersports centre that runs the fishing reckons on fish over 30 lb. Lures, artificial baits and deadbaits only, everything returned, dawn to dusk. Season tickets are bought at the watersports centre and sell out early.
A Severn Trent reservoir under the Roaches near Leek, fished for pike only, and only by season-ticket holders.
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.
Slow down everything. A booby on a fast-sinking line, left static, can pick up deep fish.
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.
A reasonable day here, though temperature isn't quite in the sweet spot.
The fishing is kept light on purpose: predator season only, from designated swims among overhanging branches, steep banks and soft mud, with the water usually full in winter. Pike to 24 lb have come out, and the watersports centre that runs the fishing reckons on fish over 30 lb. Lures, artificial baits and deadbaits only, everything returned, dawn to dusk. Season tickets are bought at the watersports centre and sell out early.
Tittesworth Reservoir is a reservoir in West Midlands / Staffordshire Moorlands, England. The catchment geology is recorded as sandstone, and the water sits at about 195 m above sea level. The species listed for this water is pike. The pike season is recorded as running from 1 October to 31 March. Best window recorded for anglers: October–March. Core methods listed: Lures; artificial baits; deadbaits (no livebait). Nearby waters in our listings include Danebridge Trout Fishery at 6.0 km, Westlow Mere at 14 km and River Dove at 16 km.
