Yearly Archives:: 2013

Thornton Weekly update week ending 8th September Another mixed week with anglers catching on daddies & hoppers while others found success with minkie boobies. The area in front of the dam down to the orange buoys continue to be the area that the majority of anglers are heading to, but it wont be long especially… Read more »

Thornton Weekly update week ending 1st September With the rod average at 2.0 Thornton continues to improve but depending on the days weather its either a case of fishing a floating line with dries or fast sinker with booby. Junior angler T Gamble fished from a float tube up alongside the weed beds up the… Read more »

Thornton Weekly update week ending 25th August Conditions continue to improve with a favourable weather forecast for the fishing as we leave summer and move into the autumn Every evening this past week we have seen hatches of the large claret buzzer, some evening the hatches have been great the best we have seen for… Read more »

Thornton Weekly update week ending 18th August Fishing at Thornton continues to improve with cooler water temperatures & the more seasonal air temperatures been favourable for trout fishing our water clarity is good as are the reservoir water levels. With the water temperature closer to 16 degrees the trout have moved up in the water… Read more »

Thornton Weekly update week ending 11th August At last with cooler air and water temperatures we are starting to see an improvement in the fishing with trout starting to move in the upper layers of the reservoir once again. Floating lines with buzzer, damsel & dries are once again starting to take fish, with anglers… Read more »

Thornton Weekly update week ending  4th August These past 3 weeks with its heat wave which at times pushed the surface water temperature to above 22 degrees as understandably took its toll on the fishing, however these last few days and the cooler forecast for this week has enabled us to stock which should improve… Read more »

Thornton Weekly update week ending  14th July Mornings are producing best with the anglers that are catching using either a fast sinking line and a booby or a floating line indicator  20ft+ leader with bloodworm and buzzer patterns on the lower 6 – 10ft of the leader. Anglers out with fish finders reported plenty of… Read more »

  Thornton Weekly update week ending  7th July Summer has arrived with a vengeance! During this warm / hot spell of weather the cooler morning session will generally be the most productive time to fish with anglers moving from their floating lines and reaching for their sinking lines with damsel, blobs & booby patterns sure… Read more »

Thornton Weekly update week ending  30th June Not an easy weeks fishing for us with the rod average at 1.2 with the trout spooned showing they are feeding hard on water flea and small / tiny buzzers Its one of the strange things about fly fishing anglers have tried fishing with small buzzers and nymph… Read more »

Thornton Weekly update week ending 24th June By the end of last week our water clarity was once again good but the fishing remained a challenge for most of the week with 112 rods averaging 1.2 Anglers reported seeing at times good numbers of fish moving but they were preoccupied feeding on the newly hatch… Read more »