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.