Yearly Archives:: 2018

Thornton Weekly Report Week ending 2nd September Tel 01530 230807 Sport remains difficult at Thornton, although we have during the last few days started to see a few of our larger claret buzzer which we expect to see during late August and early September with a few fish starting to move, although it generally remains… Read more »

Thornton Weekly Report Week ending 5th August Tel 01530 230807 Fishing reports are getting a bit repetitive, I for one won’t be disappointed to see the back of this hot weather, toughest conditions I’ve seen for managing trout fisheries. Were fortunate to have 3 other fisheries Draycote, Foremark & Eyebrook, we can see which one… Read more »

Thornton Weekly Report Week ending 15th July Tel 01530 230807 Another tough week due to the relentless hot weather. Towards the end of the week Friday & Saturday we were given a glimmer of an improvement with slightly cooler daytime temperatures bit more cloud & cooler evenings resulting in our water temperature at 7.30am in… Read more »

Thornton Weekly Report Week ending 8th July Tel 01530 230807 From our records you have to go back to 1995 to find similar conditions, with high daytime temperatures leading to high water temperatures. The only saviour has been a fresh breeze nearly every day, without that it could be a lot worse than it is…. Read more »

Thornton Weekly Report Week ending 1st July Tel 01530 230807 Difficult week at Thornton with our surface water temperature 20+ degrees all week. Not surprising therefore that the morning session has fished best with anglers concentrating their efforts over the deeper water with boobies, blobs & snakes Keith Cawley during his visit opted for a… Read more »

Thornton Weekly Report Week ending 24th June Tel 01530 230807 The fresh northerly wind during the early part of the week certainly helped to counteract the warming surface temperatures with trout been caught in the top 5ft with some still being taken on dries. As you would expect with us arriving at the longest day… Read more »

Thornton Weekly Report Week ending 17th June Tel 01530 230807 It was another week of planning your fishing around the weather, generally the mornings fished best although on any days when it remained overcast with a cooler breeze we did have an evening rise although the rise was generally during the last 45min, it’s the… Read more »

Thornton Weekly Report Week ending 11th June Tel 01530 230807 The weather and water temperature has a massive impact on our sport, with this past week being a topsy turvy week with the surface water temperature ranging from 19c to 21c It was a case of watching the weather and keeping in touch with the… Read more »

Thornton Weekly Report Week ending 3rd June Tel 01530 230807 Algae and warm water temperature did not help this past week with our surface temperature by Sunday hitting 20c degrees Not surprising therefore that our rod average was 1.1 with the morning session fishing best The deeper water produced with the channel down the Markfield… Read more »

Thornton Weekly Report Week ending 27th May Tel 01530 230807 Its turning into a fishing season dominated by the weather, this week we had good weather, windy weather stormy weather with the bright conditions helping to produce an algae bloom, overall a difficult week with our rod average 1.6 Generally last week the morning session… Read more »