Wild Brown Trout Bristol Frome

4/16/2015

I can't believe it, but I've just caught a 4lb fin perfect wild brown trout from the Bristol Frome! What an awesome fish to see from an Urban River! I'm so chuffed with it! I couldn't kill a beautiful fish of such quality from the Frome and returned it unharmed. Happy days!!!!

That's 5 x 3lb+ wild brown trout that we've caught from this section this year.

There are dippers, kingfisher and otter currently using this stretch of the river.

We regularly see muntjac and roe deer. It really is quite amazing for an urban river.

Another Wild Brown Trout from the Bristol Frome. This one over 3lbs.

Another 3lb+ Bristol Frome Brown Trout. This was caught by a friend of mine. I don't tend kill the browns in the Frome. We have now agreed to return all fish over 2lbs in weight.

Another big Bristol Frome Brown Trout

1st Brown Trout of the 2015 Season on the Bristol Frome

9 Comments

Nick Hodgson

1/23/2014 05:56:05 am

Hi, just come across your blog and wanted to ask what stretch of the Frome you fish and whether you need membership? I'm a member at Chew Fly Fishing and am looking for more variety of rivers around Bristol.

Wild Harvest UK

1/24/2014 01:28:43 am

Nick. The great thing about the Frome is that there is plenty of free fishing. I can't disclose my secret spots publicly, as I don't want to see them spoilt. But there is plenty of free spots between Eastville and Winterbourne. Snuff mills being a classic and where we have caught a few of the bigger trout.

I personally much prefer fishing for river trout. I like to see a trout rising and the challenge of catching that particular fish. Fishing teams of flies for trout that you can't see on a lake, doesn't really inspire me. But that's my own personal preference.

Nick

1/24/2014 04:09:51 am

Thanks for that and I can understand you not wanting to disclose your favourite spots. I only fish rivers myself, I prefer the real challenge of spotting and casting to rising wild fish. Is wading allowed on the a Frome or is it bank fishing only?

Maybe I'll see you on the bank sometime

Wild Harvest UK

1/24/2014 04:34:36 am

Nick, you can wade where ever you can get in. It's very overgrown at points as well. The Frome is deep at Lincoln Barn and shallows as it reaches Frenchay. It shallows further upstream as well.

There has been a reasonable mayfly hatch the last few years as well.

I've been a member of Avon & Tributaries for years and fished the middle/upper Wye a lot. The browns in the Frome are a better quality than all if these rivers from my experience and all other local rivers that I have fished. Quite amazing for its urban location. Good luck.

Wild Harvest UK

1/24/2014 05:11:27 am

Nick I'll add a few pictures as I find them. It really is worth the effort, there are some great fish in the Frome and some stretches are never fished and the fish have never seen a hook. They are fin perfect.

I've been given a secret local spot from a old friend, who now in his 80s can no longer fish. He has never disclosed the location to anyone else, but has caught many sea trout from it. I will keep you posted if I get any luck.

Nick

1/24/2014 05:17:48 am

Excellent please do post photos. It's always nice to hear these stories especially so close to Central Bristol. I would never have thought that river would prove so fruitful. Would you believe I attended Colstons school and the river flowed through our sports fields!

Wild Harvest UK

1/24/2014 05:23:59 pm

I was surprised myself, until I tried. I was trying originally for chub, but the first fish I caught was a wild brown.

We now have kingfisher, dippers and otter on my little stretch, which shows that the water quality must be excellent these days.

I've been told that the odd native crayfish are now being found as well.

You are right in it at Colstons!

Jon

2/28/2014 02:55:46 am

great photos and info. the bristol frome is awesome. I wrote to the environmental agency asking them about the possibility of sea trout in it, thinking I had caught one, but they wrote back saying it looked like a resident brown from the photo and there is no record of migratory trout in the Bristol Frome. am still intrigued as to whether they could make it up there either through the Miles culvert under the floating harbour or via the Northern Stormwater Interceptor.

Wild Harvest UK

2/28/2014 03:08:47 am

Jon, sounds very interesting.

They catch the odd Sea Trout on the Chew and Midford, so who knows.

To be honest the Frome is rarely fished in most places and so who knows what's in there??

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