River Piddle · Wessex Fly Fishing Trout Lakes
The Oxbow
The Oxbow is a fishing beat near the River Piddle at Wessex Fly Fishing Trout Lakes. Day tickets from £30.
Pricing and season
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Price calendar
Fishing details
The Oxbow at a glance
- Rods
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- Difficulty
- Explorer (2/5)
- Length
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- Water type
- stillwater
Fishing methods
Fly methods
The Oxbow is one of the mid-sized pools at Wessex Fly Fishing Trout Lakes, at half an acre, matched in size by School Pool but worth fishing in its own right on any visit here. Half an acre still gives a fish somewhere to run when it's hooked, without turning the day into a long-range casting exercise.
The water is usually beautifully clear, so stalking individual fish is the order of the day: work round steadily rather than casting at random. Buzzers, pond olives, sedges and damsel flies hatch consistently through the season, and buzzers, goldhead nymphs, damsel nymphs and small lures all take fish. Rainbow Trout are stocked regularly from 1¾ lb to well over 4 lb, averaging around 2½ lb, with the occasional considerably larger fish among them.
Tickets start from £30.
Stocking and fish species
Rules and policies
Where The Oxbow is
The beat's boundary, with parking where we have it.
50.74625, -2.29602
The fishery and river
River
The River Piddle rises from chalk springs near Alton Pancras, high in the Dorset Downs, and runs 18 miles to Poole Harbour, joining the River Frome at Wareham. It flows south at first, then swings east at Puddletown, and runs parallel to the Frome for much of its length, a few miles to the south. Between source and…
Flies for this beat
Expected in October on the River Piddle
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 Piddle and the months it usually runs.
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FAQ
The Oxbow FAQs
Practical questions anglers ask before fishing The Oxbow, from tickets to tactics.
