River Frome
Lower Wraxall Brook
Lower Wraxall Brook is a fishing beat on the River Frome. Syndicate members only. Membership is the main route on, but it is worth asking, as many clubs keep guest or taster days open.
How to book
Fishing details
Lower Wraxall Brook at a glance
- Rods
- –
- Difficulty
- Expert (4/5)
- Length
- 1 miles
- Water type
- tributary
Fishing methods
Fly methods
Lower Wraxall Brook is one of the smaller waters held by The Little Syndicate, running 1 mile along a tributary brook of the River Frome up near the hamlet of Lower Wraxall, close to the top of the catchment in Dorset. This is not the main river: it's a tight, intimate little brook, closer in scale to a garden stream than a chalk river, and it fishes that way too.
The fishing is for Brown Trout, Grayling, wild, and every one goes back. It's small-scale fishing: tight riffles, fallen trees and awkward pocket water rather than open glides, with plenty of cover to work around. Trout run from April to mid-October, with grayling from mid-June through to mid-March.
It's syndicate water, booked through John Aplin, and there is no day ticket. Anglers who like close-in fishing and don't mind working for modest wild fish will find plenty to like here; anyone after a big chalk-stream day should look elsewhere on the Frome.
Stocking and fish species
Rules and policies
Where Lower Wraxall Brook is
The beat's boundary, with parking where we have it.
50.80163, -2.58932
The river
River
England's most westerly major chalk stream, the River Frome rises from St John's Well in the village of Evershot and runs for 35 miles through the heart of Dorset. From Evershot it passes through Cattistock, Maiden Newton, and Dorchester before broadening across a wide flood plain and meandering through West Stafford…
Flies for this beat
Expected in October on the River Frome
Typical months from the river’s hatch calendar, which applies along its whole length rather than to this beat. Not a live report.
Caperer
Sedge · #10-12
Kite's Imperial
Dry fly · #14-16
Daddy Long Legs
Terrestrial · #10-12
Sawyer's Killer Bug
Nymph · #12-16
The year ahead
Full calendarEvery hatch on the River Frome and the months it usually runs.
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FAQ
Lower Wraxall Brook FAQs
Practical questions anglers ask before fishing Lower Wraxall Brook, from tickets to tactics.
