Catch Returns – 25 May

A week that saw temperatures soar!

Whilst fish activity on the ponds and lakes remained high, the water temperatures increased significantly. In fact, it is now above 18 degrees centigrade, so we now ask you to please keep all fish that you catch on the rainbow trout lakes. Catch and release remains an option on the spring-fed brown trout ponds and the river.

It was another fabulous week on the river! The majority of those fishing used mayfly patterns in various forms, wet and dry. The mayfly are still abundant as I write this (May 25th).

Successful flies: 

Rainbow trout lakes: Mayfly, BFD, Emerger, Parachute Adams, Sedge, Viva, Klinkhammer, Buzzer, Olive nymph

Brown trout lakes: Hawthorn, Klinkhammer, Damsel, Caddis, Shuttlecock

River: Various mayfly patterns, GRHE, Black gnat, Klinkhammer

Andrew Thompson

A mayfly dun fresh from hatching

Mayfly duns, spinners and egg layers along the river, a few fish rising in the evening but the trout were mainly staying deep.

Repairing the leak at Luffs