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Thornton weekly report week ending 28th February Thornton continues to fish with boat & bank anglers catching from the shallows of the Thornton arm down past the corner of the wood towards lonesome pine. Boats with the frosty mornings generally fared better during the first half of the day as the fish moved off the… Read more »

Thornton Weekly Fishing Report Week Ending 21 Feb 2016 As our water clarity from the week before improved, our fishing improved as well with boat & bank anglers catching along the shallows opposite the lodge, along woodbank & down past the lonesome pine. Floating & intermediate lines worked best with black & green, white &… Read more »

  Thornton Weekly Report week ending 14th February   By the weekend our water clarity had improved enough for anglers to start catching again, although not at the prolific rate the week previous.   Adam Gunby caught 8 trout to 4lb8oz using a diawl bach and buzzer patterns, while Mark Hunt fished booby & bloodworm… Read more »

A record opening for Thornton with the rod average for the first week 14.3 Unfortunately the heavy rain on Saturday night caused the two streams that feed Thornton to flood which in turn coloured the water. With continued rain today (Monday 8th) it likely to be the end of the week before conditions improve For the… Read more »

Thornton opens on the 1st of February & is one of the earliest midland reservoirs to open. Fishery is open from 7.30am for bank anglers with boats available from 8.30am With 3000 trout stocked for the opening boat & bank anglers should enjoy good sport. Traditionally the bank opposite the lodge (Thornton Arm) and sown… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 8th November 2015 The weather kept the boats off the water a couple of days last week, let’s hope this week, our last week of the 2015 season the weather is a little kinder. Generally lures and fry patterns are producing best although a few fish continue to… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 1st November 2015 Another mixed weeks fishing due to the variants of the weather, we’ve had heavy rain, fog, touch of frost, cold evenings and sunny warm days. Looking back through the weeks returns it mimics the weather, no fixed pattern, just about everything caught, from a dry… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807   Weekly Report Week ending 25th October 2015 Third week in October and it should be all about the fry patterns, but it isn’t with some anglers still catching on diawl bach, buzzers and daddies! Fish are feeding off the surface along the stones into green bay with Matt Cairns picking up… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 18th October 2015 With the shortening daylight hours our surface water temperature has dropped to 12.5 degrees resulting with the trout starting to move from the deeper water to the weed beds along the wood bank and both the arms after the fry. Although a few fish were… Read more »

Thornton Fishing Report w/e Sunday 11th October 2015 last week 91 rods caught 134 fish, returning 56  for weekly  rod av of 1.5. first half of week fished better with rod av of about 2.5 some good fish coming out as follows Mr Cattell on Mon 5th rainbow of 5.5lb Mr Peggy on 7th took… Read more »