Lakedown Trout Fishery - "A visual assault on the senses ..."

Wildlife

Animals, Birds & Hatches

Animals

So much can be seen, wild deer, badgers, foxes, stoats & grey squirrels

Birds

Of the rarer types, yellowhammers, all 3 types of woodpecker, wild partridge, buzzards, warblers, nightingales, duck, geese & pheasants

Hatches

Good hatches of alder & hawthorn, plenty of sedges & buzzers, sometimes mayfly & at the back end of the summer plenty of daddies, the lakes have plenty of damsel & dragonfly larvae along with shrimps, snails & in Lake 4 a few roach fry that the trout give a good bashing to in late autumn