High Fairbanks Tarn is one of WADAA’s more recent fisheries and one of the best. This is a large productive fishery of eleven acres in an elevated setting above Ings and holds very good stocks of brown and rainbow trout. The Association stocks annually and the water is managed as a catch and release fishery only. Fish grow on and the best rainbow to date has been a cracking fish of 9lbs. All methods work well but, as the stock become increasingly educated, imitative methods are likely to prove most effective. Fish rise very freely on this water and fishing dries to the ripple edge is one of the most successful tactics.

Terrestrials are always on the menu and spectacular sport can be enjoyed to Black Gnat, Hawthorns and Daddies and especially during the Bracken clock

Please note that our landlord and his family regularly walk, swim and picnic around the tarn. Please respect their privacy but don’t hesitate to politely challenge anyone you think may be using the water without authority. 

High Fairbanks is open from 15th March to 31st December. Fly only, strictly catch and release only with barbless hooks mandatory.