Very bright and windy conditions, was making the fishing really hard. Approximately 20 people where fishing the venue and most that I had talked to where struggling. Unfortunately the weed situation with the current warm weather was not good making it difficult to sink nymphs. I saw a lot of trout taking small nymphs and [...]
Carp fly fishing is a fantastic alternative to trout fly fishing and I feel should be tried at least once by all fly anglers. These carp are pure muscle and will run constantly. The nearest that you will get to these monsters is bone fishing. Another fantastic aspect to the sport of fly fishing, but [...]
Fly fishing well especially on slightly cloudy days. Rainbow trout are going for bright colours and varied patterns. Buzzers and bloodworms are also catching well with the average fish coming in at 5lb. Top Catches Geoffrey Fox from Crewe 5lb 3oz on black tadpole Mr Hignett from Warrington 5lb 12oz on tadpole Trevor Gleave from [...]
Fishing well with the average fish between 3-6lb and up to 7lb catching on buzzers and dry flies
Plenty of rainbow trout are being caught. Although fly hatches are sporadic , flies catching are dry sedge, black buzzers, diawl back, cats whiskers and orange lures. Rainbow trout being caught are on average 2 – 5lb and there has been plenty caught
Been a lot better this week. The NW Fly fishers competition took place with John Hood winning best fish 8lb 2oz rainbow trout and the overall competition with a total bag of 14lb 4oz’s . Second place was John Jannion with a 6lb rainbow trout. Flies catching are Bloodworm, Damsel Nymphs, zonkers and minky’s. This [...]
Catches have been slightly slow with trout at 2 ½ lb the average, using cats whiskers, diawl backs, bloodworm.
Steve Humphreys from the Wirral caught a 5 ½ lb rainbow trout on cats whiskers John Atkin from Chester caught a 7 9oz rainbow trout on a goldhead
