Posts Categorised: Reports

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 4th October 2015 As we move into October fry patterns are taking more and more fish, however don’t pack those emergers and dry flies away yet, as this mild October continues to give us good buzzer hatches. Russ Martin won the Thornton Fly Fishers pensioners match using a… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807  Weekly Report Week ending 27th September 2015 Again this week a lot of fish to be seeing feeding but at times preoccupied on feeding on one specific fly, size & colour. Shipmans buzzer black in a size 14 worked well as did size 14 & 16 dries, however when we had a… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807 Weekly Report Week ending 13th September 2015 With the cooler temperatures water clarity improved as the week went on with anglers reporting plenty of trout feeding on the surface although at times proved difficult to tempt, with fish either drowning the fly or coming short, they seemed preoccupied on the smaller buzzer… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807   Weekly Report Week ending 6th September 2015 Algae persisted off and on all week but with a light breeze most of the week it ensured we had plenty of algae free water to fish. Water temperature by the weekend was a fishing friendly 16.5 degrees West Mids Police enjoyed their annual… Read more »

Thornton    01530 230807   Weekly Report Week ending 30th August  2015 First half of the week fished best with an algae bloom from mid week onwards seemingly slowing the fishing, despite anglers coming in and reporting good numbers of trout feeding especially along the length of the Markfield arm, off the stones and main basin…. Read more »

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 »