Fishery report April 29th

There has been an upturn on the coarse lake with quite a few roach and other fish being caught by Children all week.  Most fish are being caught close to the weeds.  Last weekend the Carp were busy trying to spawn, this should be over now and the Carp should be feeding heavily to build up their strength.
The trout lake has been quiet all week, but the fish are still feeding early in the day, becoming a little dour later on until towards evening.  Small black flies and buzzers are working best.

Fishery report 22nd April 2012

Fishing on the trout lake has been a little slow.  This may be due to the weed-cutting that took place during the week.  This should keep the fishery in tip-top condition until the next cutting in about six weeks time.
There are plenty of carp being caught on the Coarse Lake, along with silver fish and a few tench appearing.  For the carp and tench I would recommend using a pop-up bait as there is low level weed to contend with.  There were more than a dozen large carp feeding around the margins earlier today when I was around the lake, they were feeding with their heads down and tails in the air, prime targets for anyone wanting a little bit of stalking.

I would ask anglers to fill in catch returns before leaving the fishery, you may do it anonymously if you don't want your name mentioned, so that we can report more accurately. 

Fishery report 15th April.

 There are a few carp still being caught, Paul Newell had three on maggots this morning.  The roach are still slow to show themselves, but there are enormous shoals of small fish from last years spawning.  This bodes well for future stocks.  In the meantime a concerted approach combined with sensible groundbaiting should produce a good bag of fish to any angler willing to put a few hours in.

On the fly lake the trout are still coming to buzzers and small black flies.  Fry imitations are also producing good fishing as there are a number of trout regularly feeding on the roach fry (1.5-2.5inches)
Minkies should also produce a few fish as will the tadpoles and damsel nymphs.  Current catch rates are averaging 1.5 to 2 fish per hour on the lake with some anglers doing better.

Fishery report April 11th

The fishery was very busy over the weekend.  The good weather brought many anglers out.  Unfortunately few anglers logged their catch into the office, but there were quite a few anglers stuck in fish while I was there.  Thomas Ryan had two carp, both commons weighing 8 and 6 lb.  The silver fish were quite co-operative with many kids catching a few close in to the bank.
On the fly lake, lures and tadpoles seemed to be working better than the buzzers in the bright sunshine although there were fish feeding at the surface they were not interested in dries or flies fished in the surface  layers.

Fishery report 8th April

As expected the carp fishing has switched on.  Paul Newell had 6 fish in a couple of hours yesterday, and another 10 carp and a five-and a half pound tench this morning in another two hour session.  The coarse lake seems to be fishing best early in the day. 

The Fly lake on the other hand is fishing best in the evenings.  Current closing is at 7 pm.  On Tuesday Ray Harris had 10 to buzzers in the morning, Greg Long had 17, most to buzzer in a four hour session.  Paddy Mc Loughlin had four, and Gar murphy had 3 on a lure, and Noel Bennet had three on a gold bead nymph.
Wednesday saw Jimmy Finnegan with nine fish on lures and buzzers, and Paul Newell had 10 on buzzers for the day.
On Thursady, Jimmy Finnegan had 10 fishing lures and buzzers again, Paul McBrien had 11 on lures in a three hour session.  Dry fly was successful for Jimmy Duggan, throwing three fish into the bag.

Conditions look promising for the weekend.

Fishery report 4th April

Fishing over the weekend suffered due to adverse weather conditions, Jimmy Duggan had 6 fish on a green Tadpole while Darren Finnegan had four on buzzers before thunder and lightening forced them to abandon the fishing.  The fishery was quiet on Sunday, probably due to it being Mother's Day.  There are plenty of carp showing on the coarse lake, although angling pressure is very light here at the moment.  With the weather warming up quite nicely the carp fishing is sure to throw up a few good catches later on this month.

Fishery report April 1st.

The fishery was on top form today.  One angler had three Carp including these two of 9lb 3oz and 8 lb 12oz.  All caught on popped up ledgered sweetcorn on a sliding ledger despite very windy conditions.

Meanwhile on the trout lake strong winds today made fishing hard work, but despite the difficulty Ray Harris had over 20 trout on small wet flies in two and a half hours of fishing this morning.  The successful flies were a small bibio and a peter ross fished almost static/slow retrieve over buzzer feeding fish. 

 Greg Long spent five hours fishing, using both buzzer nymphs early on and a team of small size 14 hoppers in black and sooty olive as the wind picked up further to take over forty trout for the day to well over 3 lbs in weight despite the strong gusting winds.  Both Greg and Ray were fishing floating lines.  End of day totals for other anglers fishing the lakes are not in yet, but even with adverse conditions it looks good for the weekend.

Anglers reported some big trout rising to flies at the surface, but with the blustery conditions it was hard to keep the flies fishing naturally.  The other side of the coin however meant the fresh water and oxygenating effect of the wind left the fish in fine fighting form, many making long spectacular runs and others pitching and cartwheeling in an effort to throw the hooks.   Even from a spectator's point of view the fishing was exciting.