If you’ve never picked up a fly rod before, Felix Farm is a genuinely good place to start. We get a steady stream of complete beginners through the gate every season, and most leave having caught their first trout on the fly. Here’s what you need to know before your first visit. Do I need my own gear? No. If…
Reopening 1st September: What to Expect This Autumn
As many of you know, we close the fishery for the whole of August every year. It gives the stock a proper rest after the busy summer months, lets water levels and weed growth settle down, and gives us a chance to get maintenance jobs done around the banks and swims that we can’t do while you’re all out fishing.…
Reopening 1st September – What to Expect This Autumn
As always, we’re closing our gates for the whole of August to give the fishery a proper rest — no lines in the water, no boots on the bank, just time for the lake and the fish to recover from the summer season. We’ll be back open from 1st September, and we wanted to give everyone a quick heads-up on…
Friends at Felix – June 2023
Felix Farm is the friendliest fishery that I have ever visited. A typical example of this happened the first time I fished there, when a lady angler out in one of the boats appeared to be playing a fish every time I glanced in her direction. Back on the bank, when I politely asked her what fly had done the…
What’s Catching – October 2021
Here are some of the catches for October and how they were caught! Oct 8
Misty Morning Trouting – 9th October 2021
Author: Alex Hall – 11/10/2021 After a journey slowed by some pretty low-hanging and thick morning fog, I finally arrived at Felix just after 08:00. At least I think I did…………It was pretty hard to tell amid all of that fog where I was! The lake was covered by much the same mist I’d traveled through, so seeing its fringes…