Home FAQs Screenshots Fly Fishing Locations . . . by county cloud (UK) Support Join Now! Contact Us Tell a Friend Fly Fishing Tips Fly Fishing Links Other Links   If you've found our website useful, please support us by clicking one of the bookmarks below. 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 Vale End Fishery Vale End Estate Fishery Estate Office, Weston Yard Vale End Surrey GU5 9AF Contact: Tony Hern Tel: 0976 810737 Viaducy Fishery Cary Valley Somerton Somerset Contact: Robbie Winram Tel: 01458 274022 Valley Springs Fishery Valley Springs Sherford Kingsbridge Devon TQ7 2BG Contact: Mr John Bishop Tel: 01548 531574 Vicarage Spinney Trout Fishery Farm Haversham Road Little Lindon Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire MK19 7EA Contact: The Proprietor Tel: 01908 612227 Venn Down Lakes Trebowen Trevolga Boscastle Cornwall Contact: Ted Bowen Tel: 01840 250018 Vownog Fish Lake Porth-Y-Waen Oswestery Shropshire SY10 8LX Contact: Liz Dixon/Steve Ellis Tel: 01691 828474 Ventontrissick Fishery Zelah Truro Cornwall Contact: Gerald Wright Tel: 01872 540497   Fly Fishing Tips and Techniques The Brown Trout The wild brown trout is widely distributed in the British Isles in suitably cool and well oxygenated waters. The adults size is usually about 8" to 10" , with some larger fish in most waters of 12" to 18" and odd larger specimens. The largest brown trout recorded in the British Isles are in the region of 20lb or slightly more in weight. Such fish can be over 10 years old. Brown trout vary in colouration and shape but are generally a buttery colour with distinctive red and black spots, a darker back and silvery underside are typical. They typically spawn from mid-October to mid-December in cool gravelly tributary streams. They produce nearly 2000 eggs per kg of body weight, each being yellow-orange in colour and about 5mm in diameter. The brown's growth rate is dictated by the quantity and varying sizes of the food supply. In some waters where the trout can gain sufficient weight they become able to consume larger fish and become very sizable indeed. Trout numbers are also affected by spawning expanse and predation. Studying the stomach contents of trout between April and September will generally reveal a preference for caddis, midges and shrimps. In season, mayfly predominate while other key foods are beetles, fish fry, snails and newts. In the winter, water louse become more important as do frogs. It is worth noting that caddis are important to trout all year round. In turn trout are preyed upon by man, pike, herons, cormorants, gulls, otters, mink, foxes and seals to name just a few. The flesh of trout varies between a light grey to a pink colour, usually the pink flesh is the better tasting and its colour in the wild is derived from the consumption of crustaceans. << Loch Style - Methods The Rainbow Trout >>	Existing Users Login User ID:   Password:   Remember me next time. Register to join now for FREE Forgotten your password?