Thornton weekly report week ending 23rd  October 2016

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Our water temperature has dropped below 10 degrees & our water clarity is good, with the trout well on the fry, with this week’s rod average 2.0

No one area is fishing better than another, a few days last week saw the corner of the wood fishing well, then for a few days in front of the lodge became the hot spot, farm bank & green bay have continued to produce at times.

Mid range 3-4inch sinkers & fast sinkers 7 inch / second have been the lines to fish with the smaller minkie, zonker fry patterns best. Although white & green continues to be the best colour on odd days black & green or olive zonkers have caught well.

Martin Brown fished a morning session taking 5 to 3lb, Mick Hanson fished a morning session also catching 5 trout, Andy Dermott took time off from helping out at the fisheries catching 7 trout to 3lb8oz for his mornings fishing, Mick Huffer fished a morning session recording 5 trout while Mark Hunt found the afternoon fished better for him catching 7.

Overall average for the week was 2.0

Thornton 2016 Closing date is Sunday 20^th November

Car Park, Lodge and bank fishing open 7.30am

Full Day Boats 8.30am – 6.00pm

Part Day Boats 8.30am – 1.00pm  /  1.00pm – 6.00pm

Last 4 Hour 2.00pm – 6.00pm

 All anglers off site by 6.15pm

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Thornton weekly report week ending 9th October 2016

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With our water temperature down to 12 degrees the trout are moving out of the deeper water towards the banks and the weed beds to feed on the large shoals of coarse fish fry.

Although the trout are on the fry its generally the smaller fry patterns currently working best with sparkle booby, small minkie booby two of the better patterns

Intermediate or floating lines worked best with the stones, corner of the wood, farm bank & weed beds along the Thornton Arm best area to try

Over the weekend we fished the Steve Parton memorial competition with float tube anglers fishing against boat anglers, we were pleased to see members of Steves family in attendance to hand out the awards pictures on our facebook page www.facebook.com/FlyFishStore

Thornton Fly Fishers fished their Single Fly competition with the eventual winner being John Kirk visit our facebook page for report.

Steve Cross took time off from his new business and was rewarded with 5 trout with Richard Dayman also recording 5 trout for his visit mainly on micro booby, Andrew Wilson bucked the fry feeding trend and opted to fish a gold headed damsel boating 3 trout for his mornings visit, Pete Hunt & his boat partner John Thomson found the fish down the Markfield Arm boating 10 fish for their mornings visit.

Overall average for the week was 1.4

Thornton 2016 Closing date is Sunday 20^th November

Car Park, Lodge and bank fishing open 7.30am

Full Day Boats 8.30am – 6.30pm

Part Day Boats 8.30am – 1.30pm  /  1.30pm – 6.30pm

Last 4 Hour 2.30pm – 6.30pm

 All anglers off site by 7.00pm

 Sunday 16^th October we will be at the Uttoxeter Game Fishing and Fly Tying Fair held at Uttoxeter race course, doors open 10.00am, call and visit our stand

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Thornton weekly report week ending 3^rd October 2016

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It’s certainly had the hint of autumn this past week, noticeably cooler in the morning and late evening but with reasonable daytime temperatures.

Water clarity is improving with our water temperature this week around 14 degrees.

Noticeably this week we saw an increasing number of trout on the fry with the stones and weed beds opposite the lodge holding the fry feeders. As the water temperatures cool the trout will move from the deeper water into the arms as they seek out the fry feeding bonanza

Some fish are still feeding on buzzer and daddies, S Kelhowski caught 12 trout on buzzers for his visit, Dave Rowbotham fished a washing line for his mornings visit taking 5 trout, Norman Perkins fished daddies, hoppers, diawl bach and suspender buzzers to catch 13 trout with T Pegg fishing a daddy to catch 8, Adrian Freer opted to use an intermediate and buzzers catching 6 for his mornings visit with Bill Nichols fishing daddies and olive buzzers for his 5 trout. Mark Hunt fished fry patterns catching 9 trout with 4 going over 3lb, John Bebbington caught 3lb12 rainbow, M Cross 3lb.

Overall average for the week was 1.9

Thornton 2016 Closing date is Sunday 20^th November

Car Park, Lodge and bank fishing open 7.30am

Full Day Boats 8.30am – 6.45pm

Part Day Boats 8.30am – 1.30pm  /  1.30pm – 6.45pm

Last 4 Hour 2.45pm – 6.45pm

All anglers off site by 7.00pm

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Thornton weekly report week ending 25th September 2016

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70 acre

Better weeks fishing despite the algae, we had enough of a breeze, wind at times to push the algae out of the way leaving us with reasonable clear water.

Daddies was the most successful fly of the week, followed by olive buzzer, emergers, muddlers & fry patterns with the floating line working best. With the wind coming from the South & west for most of the week the best area was in front of the dam, green bay & stones.

Adrian Freer caught 6 for 19lb for his morning’s visit, with Matt Cairns using his version of the Big Res to record 5 for his mornings fishing. Pete Cox used an olive buzzer to take 5 but lost a fish at the net estimated at 6lb-7lb. Clive Holt fished an afternoon to late evening session recording 6 trout, Steve Orton also fished a late evening session using a muddler. Floating fry, yellow owl to boat his 5 fish, during the same evening Neil Bates found some fry feeders in open water prepared to take his sparkle booby catching 4 trout including a brown of 3lb. Mick Cross & A Miles both caught rainbows of 4lb during the week.

Overall average for the week was 2.0

At times like this when fishing conditions can & do alter quickly we recommend you contact the lodge for latest info.

Car Park, Lodge and bank fishing open 7.30am

Full Day Boats 8.30am – 7.00pm

Part Day Boats 8.30am – 1.30pm  /  1.30pm – 7.00pm

Last 4 Hour 3.00pm – 7.00pm

All anglers off site by 7.15pm

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Thornton weekly report week ending 18th September 2016

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On the two overcast days Monday & Friday sport picked up nicely with fish moving freely and taking dries, emergers & muddlers. On the other brighter days algae remained a problem.

With this week’s forecast giving cloud and cooler air temperatures we should at last see the algae drop way.

Some daddies about, with a small G&H sedge also worth a go. For cdc & hoppers fish red or claret.

Monday our rod average was pushing 3 with hoppers, daddies and muddlers taking fish across the main basin and into green bay. Trevor Pegg midweek searched for the clearer water and caught 7 trout to 4lb2oz on a pearly pheasant tail. Saturday was the best day of the weekend by far with Mark Hunt leading the pack with 15 trout taken on dries, cormorants and muddler.

Mark with a number of anglers this week commented a number of fish were feeding on this year’s large shoals of fry, could be why Trevor pearly pheasant tail worked

With our water temperature at 16 degrees, cooler forecast for the week we should see some good sport, we have had a good number of fish move the last hour on Saturday & Sunday evening.

Overall average for the week was 1.6

At times like this when fishing conditions can & do alter quickly we recommend you contact the lodge for latest info.

Car Park, Lodge and bank fishing open 7.30am

Full Day Boats 8.30am – 7.00pm

Part Day Boats 8.30am – 1.30pm  /  1.30pm – 7.00pm

Last 4 Hour 3.00pm – 7.00pm

 All anglers off site by 7.15pm

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Thornton weekly report week ending 5th September 2016

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We had a mixed weeks fishing with the algae persisting although the breeze most days led areas of clear water.

During most of the week mornings fished best with anglers catching on intermediate lines with orange blobs down to fast sinking lines with boobies and snakes.

Saturday morning was wet, plenty of heavy rain showers, however the inclement weather helped to reduce the surface temperature and with a few claret buzzer hatching, see photo on facebook www.facebook.com/FlyFishStore , it looked good for the late afternoon once the rain had passed. Mark Hunt was the only angler left on the water drifting from the corner of the car park past the pontoon and was rewarded with fish moving on the surface where he caught 10 on claret cdc

Russ Martin fished Sunday afternoon along the Thornton arm taking 3 on dries, again fish feeding on the claret buzzer.

Over the weekend when the fish moved they could be drawn to chase muddlers, hoppers and cdc

Best areas, main car park, Thornton arm, Green Bay

Overall average for the week was 1

Currently our water temperature remains at 17 degrees

At times like this at the height of the summer when fishing conditions can & do alter quickly we recommend you contact the lodge for latest info.

 Car Park, Lodge and bank fishing open 7.30am

Full Day Boats 8.30am – 8.00pm

Part Day Boats 8.30am – 2.30pm  /  2.30pm – 8.00pm

Last 4 Hour 4.00pm – 8.00pm

 All anglers off site by 8.15pm

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Thornton weekly report week ending 29th  August 2016

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Warmer weather at the start of the week once again drove our surface temperature towards 19 degrees and with it the algae bloom increased. By the weekend our water temperature was once again down to below 18 degrees, but our algae bloom persisted.

 John Everett fished in green bay catching 5 trout on a red eyed damsel and booby, Clive Holt fished an afternoon session with suspender buzzers and caught 5 trout, Robert Moreton and Adi Iliffe shared a boat and fished snakes and boobies to catch their 6 trout.

6 members of the British Float Tubing Association fished on Saturday averaging 2 fish for their match, on Sunday Thornton Fly Fishers fished a boat pairs match with Nigel Harvey & Richard Dayman the winning pair boating 9 trout with Dennis Barnes picking up the prize for largest trout at 3lb

Overall average for the week was 1.25

Currently our water temperature remains at 17.5 degrees

At times like this at the height of the summer when fishing conditions can & do alter quickly we recommend you contact the lodge for latest info.

Car Park, Lodge and bank fishing open 7.30am

Full Day Boats 8.30am – 8.15pm

Part Day Boats 8.30am – 2.30pm  /  2.30pm – 8.15pm

Last 4 Hour 4.15pm – 8.15pm

All anglers off site by 8.30pm

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Thornton weekly report week ending 21^st August 2016

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Water temperature crept up during the week at one point it pushed 20 degrees, however the windy, cooler unsettled weather over the weekend kept rods off the water it did help reduce the water temperature, by Sunday morning we were at 17 degrees & the fish responded to the cooler conditions.

On Sunday Phil Mee fished a sinker in the morning before changing to an intermediate line catching 11 fish, Mark Hunt fished a claret cdc to take 10 trout with the majority caught in front of the lodge & down towards the main car park, rod average for Sunday alone was 3.6

Overall average for the week was 1.3

 Currently our water temperature remains at 17 degrees although we do have some algae on the water.

The weekends southerly gales pushed an unusual visitor to the reservoir, a Gannet, we believe its the first recorded Gannet in Leicestershire. The Osprey also paid us a visit on Sunday  

At times like this at the height of the summer when fishing conditions can & do alter quickly we recommend you contact the lodge for latest info.

 Car Park, Lodge and bank fishing open 7.30am

Full Day Boats 8.30am – 8.30pm

Part Day Boats 8.30am – 2.30pm  /  2.30pm – 8.30pm

Last 4 Hour 4.30pm – 8.30pm

All anglers off site by 8.45pm

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Thornton weekly report week ending 15^th August 2016

70 acres

Tel: 01530 230807

Surface water temperatures in the main hovered at 18.5c last week, considering it August that’s cool for  us, combined with overcast conditions, stiff breeze & cool nights we enjoyed a far better weeks fishing with our rod average at 1.8

Surprising for August the Thornton arm produced best with good numbers of fish to be seen moving through the surface, most anglers found a floating line with small diawls & hares ears fished static was the best combination, although the washing line with a orange or black booby on the point also worked as did the dries with the big red, daddy & size 14 G&H sedge taking fish.

 A few of the big claret buzzer showed this week, they are around 2 weeks early, as they show in increasing numbers the good old traditional wet fly “Mallard & Claret” does well.

Water clarity is good with just a hint of algae.

Chris Sayer fished a morning session with his granddaughter Millie, between them they caught 7 trout, Bob Jones fished a diawl bach to catch 12 trout, Mark Hunt fished dries to record his 10 fish. Szymon fished with his 9 yr old son Jakub catching 5 trout see our face book page www.facebook.com/FlyFishStore Szymon returned next morning in his float tube to catch 15 trout, Matt Vickers & R Cattemull shared a boat and caught 11 trout for their mornings fishing

Generally the morning session continues to fish best.

At times like this at the height of the summer when fishing conditions can & do alter quickly we recommend you contact the lodge for latest info.

Car Park, Lodge and bank fishing open 7.30am

Full Day Boats 8.30am – 8.45pm

Part Day Boats 8.30am – 2.30pm  /  2.30pm – 8.45pm

Last 4 Hour 4.45pm – 8.45pm

 All anglers off site by 9.00pm

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Thornton weekly report week ending 8^th August 2016

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Tel: 01530 230807

Our surface temperature was all over the place this week, Monday to Thursday 18.5C by the weekend it was 20.5C and by today (Tuesday 9^th) its dropping again down to 19C, this up and down water temperatures does little to promote consistent sport

Some days when the water temperature was 18.5C we had a fish catch average of 2+ but on the days our temperature went above 20C we averaged between 0.8 – 0.9, overall our weekly average was 1.0

Mick Glover fished a Big Red dry to take his 3 fish for his mornings visit, Bob Jones caught 4 with some of his fish feeding hard on pin fry, Mark Hunt fished opposite the lodge working the weed beds with cdc patterns waiting for cloud cover and moving fish, by using this tactic he boated 6 trout.

It’s not surprising that currently the cooler morning session is the best part of the day the day to fish, the 8.00am – 3.00pm session

At times like this at the height of the summer when fishing conditions can & do alter quickly we recommend you contact the lodge for latest info.

Car Park, Lodge and bank fishing open 7.30am

Full Day Boats 8.30am – 8.45pm

Part Day Boats 8.30am – 2.30pm  /  2.30pm – 8.45pm

Last 4 Hour 4.45pm – 8.45pm

All anglers off site by 9.00pm

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Details on Tuition or Guided trips visit our website www.flyfishtuition.co.uk