Summer Lodge Hotel in Dorset is celebrating being named ‘Best Small Hotel in the UK’ at the Visit England Awards for Excellence in 2025. This charming country house hotel sits in beautiful countryside and offers warm service, delicious food, a relaxing spa, indoor pool and delightful gardens.
Around 25 to 30 minutes from the River Frome, where you can expect a stunning location for wild brown trout and grayling, it makes a great choice for a night or two before or after a day on the water.
To walk along the babbling waters of the River Frome is to pass through the pages of a Thomas Hardy novel. Recent work has gone a long way to restoring the river to an almost self-sustaining wild habitat, perfect for wild brown trout and grayling to flourish – sometimes producing very large wild trout and grayling.
Fly hatches occur consistently throughout the year, with a strong mayfly hatch in early June. During the height of the summer, it’s a delightful place to fish, with good hatches of olives and sedges long into the evenings.
Over recent years, fly fishing on the River Frome has enjoyed a growing reputation as one of the best rivers in the country to target big grayling. Through the late summer and autumn this is primarily sight nymphing. In the winter times methods turn more to deep nymphing techniques.
Alex Jardine’s blog ‘Fly Fishing the River Frome’ offers a great overview of this lovely, unspoilt river.
If you would like further information on this delightful river, or any other Chalkstream fishing in the UK please contact Justin Hancock or Alex Jardine or call our office on +44(0)1980 847389.