Yearly Archives:: 2015

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 25th May 2015 Water clarity is excellent with large buzzer hatches and daphnia the trout can pick and choose their morsel and are therefore not as easy to catch, it makes for some interesting fishing. Anglers are reporting and we can also see from the lodge large numbers of… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 17th May 2015 Another week when we experienced unseasonable strong winds, however on the days the weather forecast was kind for us we enjoyed excellent fishing with some great evening rise sport resulting in an overall rod average of 3.5 for the week. Mark Hemmings fished the late evening… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 9th May 2015 Despite two very windy days on Tuesday & Wednesday Thornton continues to enjoy a good spring with a rod average of 4.5 for the past week Summer cant be too far off with the arrival of the swifts & the cuckoo this week. With the surface… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 3rd May 2015 Yet another week of changeable weather conditions, from wind to flat calm and fluctuating air temperature from a cool 9 degrees to a pleasant 17 degrees The fishing however has remained good with the rod average for the week at 3.6. We are seeing some… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 28th April 2015 Good weeks fishing at Thornton with the weekly rod average at 4 with the majority of the trout taken falling to buzzer, diawl bach, damsel with some fish taking dries. Trout have moved into the main basin of the reservoir with plenty of trout to… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 12th April 2015 Typical April weather, nice one minute, cold, wet & windy next. On the better days boat & bank anglers caught well along the Thornton Arm & wood however by Friday anglers were reporting large numbers of trout feeding on ever improving buzzer hatches down the… Read more »

  Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 5th April 2015 Excellent fishing to the start of Easter, the improving weather conditions certainly helped with 636 trout caught for a rod average 7.4   Boat & bank anglers have enjoyed the good fishing with many of the fish caught within 20 yards of the bank…. Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 29th March 2015 Monday to Friday of last provided good fishing conditions and excellent sport however with a windy forecast over Saturday & Sunday we took the decision to not allow any boats out. On the fishable days last week a total of 496 trout were caught for… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807   Weekly Report Week ending 22nd March 2015 Fishing continues to improve with 102 rods last week catching 678 trout for a rod average 6.6 with boat and bank anglers enjoying the good sport. Last week I reported that the Mallard & Claret had worked for one bank angler, this week Simon… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 16th March 2015 Improving weeks fishing for us as the water clarity continues to improve day by day with the rod average jumping to 3.1 this week Wednesday was the significant day from then onwards our catches improved. The trout are close in on the margins opposite the… Read more »