RIVER CUT FLOW 42 m³/s · CLEAR · 11°C Request a beat
First light on the valley water at River Cut
A fishing lodge on fourteen private kilometres

Quiet water.
Long days.

05:12 FIRST LIGHT FLOW 42 m³/s WATER 11°C HATCH: OLIVES, MIDGE RODS OUT: 6 OF 8
The house rule

Eight rods on fourteen kilometres. You will see more herons than people, and the only queue is behind the coffee pot at five a.m.

8rods, never more
14 kmprivate water
3named beats
0kill. all wild, all back
1long table at eight
The water — walk it upstream

Three beats,
one river.

Rotate daily. Your beat is yours alone from breakfast to dark.

01 — Home Pool

1.8 KM · STILL · DRY FLY
The Home Pool at dead calm

Slow glass below the lodge. Fish rise within sight of the porch; nobody has ever finished a coffee here.

02 — The Braids

5.4 KM · POCKET WATER · NYMPH
The Braids — fast split channels

The river splits into six channels and argues with itself. Wading boots, short casts, quick hands.

03 — Upper Cut

6.8 KM · CANYON · WALK IN
The forest walk into the Upper Cut

Forty minutes on foot, then water almost nobody has cast. Take the second lunch; you won't come back early.

One day, as the log keeps it

The river log, Tuesday.

05:12First light. Mist on the Home Pool, one rod already out.— MIDGE #22
08:40Olives coming off the Braids. Everyone late for breakfast.— BWO #18
13:00Bank lunch at the birches. Flow steady, 42.— SOUP, BREAD
16:30Cloud in. The Upper Cut turns on for an hour, then sulks.— PHEASANT TAIL
21:05Evening rise. The good fish under the far alder, again.— SEDGE #16
23:30Whisky on the porch. Tomorrow: same, slower.— NEAT
Last light over the meadow water
21:05, every evening

The river goes quiet,

then the water moves.

Set. Breathe. Let it run.

The lodge above its own water
The lodge

Stone below, timber above.

Eight rooms, waders drying by the boot room stove, and a kitchen that plates whatever the garden and the smokehouse allow. Dinner is at eight because the rise is at nine.

The year on the water

Seasons & hatches

SeasonWaterRodsLog note
Apr – MayHigh, pushing. Big fish moving.From 410 / nightSTREAMERS, DEEP
Jun – AugThe glory months. Dry fly all day.From 520 / nightOLIVES, SEDGE, TERRESTRIALS
Sep – OctLow, clear, honest. The hard PhD water.From 440 / nightMIDGE #24, LONG LEADERS
Whole lodgeEight rods, your party, the river.On requestBRING NOBODY LOUD
Eight rods. Fourteen kilometres. Do the maths.

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