Yearly Archives:: 2015

Thornton    01530 230807   Weekly Report Week ending 23rd  August  2015 The evening has being the most productive period to fish with anglers staying on to fish the last couple of hours enjoying most evening great evening rise sport to ever increasing hatches of claret buzzer. Water surface temperature has remained around the 18 degree… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 16th August  2015 As is often the case watch the weather and speak to the lodge for latest updates ensured anglers fished the most productive sessions which this past week seemed to shift daily from morning session to the last 4 hours and the evening rise. Water temperature… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 7th August  2015 .A week of two halves as far as the fishing was concerned. The early part of the week with water temperatures between 17 – 18 degrees gave us a few evenings when the evening rise was excellent with anglers reporting fish high in the water… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807   Weekly Report Week ending 2nd August  2015 The rain & cooler air temperatures over the past couple of weeks may not be great for those on summer holidays but for the fishing it was a godsend with surface water temperatures at the beginning of last week at a fish friendly 17… Read more »

Thornton Weekly Fishing Report w/e Sunday 26th July 2015 Another challenging week at Thornton, although the cooler weather has at last helped the water temperature drop to a respectable 17 degrees. Again the most notable feature of the week has been the quality of the fish caught, with over 10% of them weighing in at… Read more »

Thornton  Weekly Fishing Report w/e Sunday 19th July 2015 Similar to last week, the warm weather has resulted in challenging conditions but the quality of the fish taken has been exceptional with 25% of the week’s catch exceeding 3lb, including some resident fish of 5lb +. Biggest catch was by member Mr White who boated… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807   Weekly Report Week ending 12th July 2015 A bit of a better week for Thornton with the highlight being the quality of the trout caught. Anglers who kept in touch with the lodge and fished the cooler days did best with the majority of the trout caught coming from the deep… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 28th June 2015 Summer has arrived, but we continue to see good numbers of trout moving in the morning & again in the evening although I expect this coming week it will alter with trout moving first thing before moving into the cooler deeper water. This week good… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807   Weekly Report Week ending 21st June 2015 Usually and under normal summer conditions we would be reporting “fast sinking lines & booby” but that’s not the case, far from it. Every morning at 7.30am this past week our surface water temperature was still a very fish friendly 18 degrees with huge… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 14th June 2015 As we near the longest day our water temperature is unusually cool for the time of year at around 16.5degrees we would normally expect it to be pushing 18 degrees or above. Not that were complaining the cooler water has kept any algae bloom at… Read more »