Bank House Fly Fishery

Bank House was redesigned during the winter of 2003/04. We made pools bigger, created new deep areas, redirected water flow and made new fishing points. The result is a fishery where the trout are spread throughout the water and where you can fish in privacy. Bank House is a haven for wildlife, kingfishers and nuthatches are amongst the numerous resident species and the water is rich with aquatic insect life. Before you visit, call to reserve a place, as we limit the numbers of anglers on the water.

Bank House is full of corixa and sticklebacks so fry patterns and small beaded flies are a must in the box. The tigers lie deep, so they can see a large area of the surface. For this reason dries catch more than their fair share of them. Good dries to have are shipman’s, CDC buzzers and sedges. The water is deep close into the islands, so the trout hold in these margins. Buzzers or nymphs fished ultra slow on a floating line is a banker rainbow tactic. In the cold oxygen rich water of March and April the trout will give a great account of themselves. The blue trout are aerobatic and hard fighting and there will be plenty of specimens, so don’t fish too lightly. See if you can catch all four species in one visit.