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Delicious	Fly Fishing Locations For more advanced searches, full fishery details, photos, visitor comments, catch records and much much more register now for free to use the full fly fishing journal application.  Existing users should login.   Find a fishery alphabetically: View all fisheries in a county: Avon Bedfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cheshire Cleveland Cornwall County Durham Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Sussex Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Merseyside Middlesex Norfolk North Humberside North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Shropshire Somerset South Humberside South Yorkshire Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Tyne and Wear Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll Ayrshire Banffshire Berwickshire Caithness Clackmannanshire Dumfriesshire Dunbartonshire East Lothian Fife Inverness-shire Isle of Arran Isle of Barra Isle of Benbecula Isle of Bute Isle of Canna Isle of Coll Isle of Colonsay Isle of Cumbrae Isle of Eigg Isle of Gigha Isle of Harris Isle of Islay Isle of Iona Isle of Jura Isle of Lewis Isle of Mull Isle of North Uist Isle of Rum Isle of Scalpay Isle of Skye Isle of South Uist Isle of Tiree Kincardineshire Kinross-shire Kirkcudbrightshire Lanarkshire Mid Lothian Morayshire Nairnshire Peeblesshire Perthshire Renfrewshire Ross-shire Roxburghshire Selkirkshire Stirlingshire Sutherland West Lothian Wigtownshire Clwyd Dyfed Gwent Gwynedd Mid Glamorgan South Glamorgan Powys West Glamorgan County Antrim County Armagh County Down County Fermanagh County Londonderry County Tyrone Strathclyde Borders Glamorgan Lothian Dumfries and Galloway Grampian Sussex Greater Manchester Highland Denbighshire Fife Co Durham Central Region Tayside Hants Fife Humberside Fife Alabama Arizona Oakbank Lakes Country Park Longtown Carlisle Cumbria CA6 5NA Contact: The Proprietor Tel: 01228 791108 Otter Falls Fishery Old Spurtham Farm Upottery Homiton Devon EX14 9QD Contact: John Wardell Tel: 01404 861634 Orchill Loch Fishery Auchterarder Tayside Contact: Elizabeth Jackson Tel: 01764 682287 Over water Fishery Fold Head Fram Watendlath Keswick Cumbria Contact: Mr Stan Edmundson Tel: 01768 777293 Orvis Innis Fishery Innis Moor Penwithick St Austell Cornwall PL26 8YH Contact: Dave Johns or Pam Winch Tel: 01726 851162 Overwater Fishery Keswick Cumbria Contact: Mr Stan Edmundson Tel: 01768 777293   Fly Fishing Tips and Techniques Identifying Types of Rise Trout tend to rise according to a sequence of stages. This is dictated by the stages the hatching flies and aquatic organisms are following. Typically if fish are bulging and darting in weeds and shallows but not breaking the surface they are usually taking nymphs in mid water. The next stage is that the fish start taking duns on the surface and the third stage is when the fish take the spinners, while the fourth stage is when they return towards the bottom to feed on larvae. This pattern varies according to conditions, time of year and changes in cycles of other organisms in the water such as the numbers of fry which will induce the larger fish to harvest the crop of fry. However these stages serve us well in considering likely opportunities and the pattern can be associated with the sequence of day and night with fish following nymphs up to the surface as the day progresses and the water warms up. By the evening there may be a big rise to surface hatching flies, then to spent spinners and then if the water stays reasonable warm in the dark the fish will chase sedges and moths on the surface of the water. - A big rise with a kidney shaped whorl is made to large spinners and big flies. - A sucking rise occurs to medium sized upright floating flies that are steady on the surface. - A sipping rise is found in the case of small midges and smaller flies. - A head and tail rise tends to be made to spinners and duns just in the surface film. Surface food is taken in ways that relate to the depth the fish are lying. If the trout is three feet or more down he will shoot up, open his mouth and make a splashy rise. But if just under the surface he will suck the fly down and you may only see the edge of his tail as he turns around. Food under the surface is taken either by sucking the fly in by way of a current of water that is drawn through the gills and hence the mouth, or by rushing at the fly, opening the mouth wide, extending the gills and allowing the water and thus the fly to pass into the mouth, the flow being smooth through the gills. Food taken off the bottom might be achieved by the fish turning to the side of its mouth when upended and if it is shallow you may see the fish tailing, that is in a vertical position with head grubbing on the bottom. << Stillwater Trout Fishing Methods Trout Rise Forms >>	Existing Users Login User ID:   Password:   Remember me next time. Register to join now for FREE Forgotten your password?