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Weekly Report ending 2^nd November

84 rods recorded 85 trout for the week for a rod average 1

Water clarity is excellent, gin clear.

In the main fry patterns, minkie, cats whisker, bunny leach, minkie booby are the patterns taking fish although some are still using & catching on buzzer & nymph patterns.

The weed beds opposite the lodge and in front of the willows has produced best but when the wind has allowed the lonesome pine & farm bank is well worth a look

Water clarity is excellent

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am – 4.45pm

Part Day Boats 8.30 – 12.30pm  /   12.30pm – 4.45pm

All Anglers offsite by 5.00pm

CLOSING DATE 2014 Sunday 16^th November

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Weekly Report ending 26^th October

75 rods recorded 81 trout for the week for a rod average 1.1

Water clarity is excellent, gin clear.

The weed beds along the Thornton arm fished best this past week with Bob Obrien & Russ Martin donning waders to catch a few off the bank opposite the lodge.

Chris Sayer took himself away from the crowd down into the Markfield and caught 8 trout including fish of 3lb & 4lb8oz

Other notable trout, Neil James6lb, T Pegg 4lb2oz, Nev Welsh two trout for 7lb4oz, Jack Hives 4lb, D Price 3lb2oz,

A number of browns are also being caught with Dave Saunt catching 4 for his visit.

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am – 5.00pm

Part Day Boats 8.30 – 12.30pm  /   12.30pm – 5.00pm

All Anglers offsite by 5.30pm

CLOSING DATE 2014 Sunday 16^th November

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Weekly Report ending 19^th October

86 rods recorded 103 trout for the week for a rod average 1.2

A bit of an improvement for us with the bit of rain last week at last helping to freshen the water, although our water clarity is gin clear. A good numbers of browns have been reported this week with the brown showing along the stones and into green bay

The trout have started to move into the arms with the weed beds opposite the lodge & down along the farm bank starting to fish.

Most years the middle of the Thornton arm opposite the lodge produces well during mid October

Fry patterns, boobies, hares ear & diawl bach are the patterns taking fish last week with anglers reporting trout following floating fry patterns & boobies pulled through the surface but turning away at the last moment.

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am – 6.15pm

Part Day Boats 8.30 – 1.00pm  /   1.00pm – 6.15pm

Last 4 hours pm 2.15– 6.15pm

All Anglers offsite by 6.30pm

CLOSING DATE 2014 Sunday 16^th November

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Weekly Report ending 12^th October

77 rods recorded 75 trout for the week for a rod average 0.9

With no rain to speak of since July we were hoping for some substantial rainfall to introduce some fresh water into the reservoir & at long last that has occurred during the last couple of days.

Thornton Fly Fishers fished their single fly competition on Sunday with all participants using the same black booby pattern, fishing to a 4 fish limit Nigel Harvey won the match with the match averaging 2.6

With the wind & rain the fish have at long last started to move away from the deeper water areas into the arms with the mouth of the Markfield arm & weed beds opposite the Thornton lodge starting to produce.  

Although some anglers are still taking some fish on dries & diawl bach there was an increasing number of trout caught this week on lures, booby & fry patterns.

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am – 6.30pm

Part Day Boats 8.30 – 1.00pm  /   1.00pm – 6.30pm

Last 4 hours pm 2.30– 6.30pm

All Anglers offsite by 6.45pm

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Weekly Report ending 5^th October

87 rods recorded 89 trout for the week for a rod average 0.9

Similar returns as last week, anglers again reported seeing trout move but proved difficult to tempt  On Saturday when the wind freshened fish were prepared to chase a surface fly pulled through the wave, but again actually hooking these trout proved difficult.

Trout remain out over the deeper water with the stones & main dam continuing to be favourite.

With a dramatic change to the weather during the last 48 hours, good frost Sunday morning with wind & rain today (Monday) its hoped it will freshen the water & bring the fish back on the take.

Again no real pattern on flies some caught on fast sinking lines & a booby while others persevered with a floating line with daddies, hopper, buzzer, damsel & muddler.

Usually during early / mid October the trout will start to move back into the arms with the area in front of the lodge & pontoon starting to produce.

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am – 6.45pm

Part Day Boats 8.30 – 1.30pm  /   1.30pm – 6.50pm

Last 4 hours pm 2.45– 6.45pm

All Anglers offsite by 7.00pm

CLOSING DATE 2014 Sunday 16^th November

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Weekly Report ending 28th September

87 rods recorded 92 trout for the week for a rod average 1.0

Anglers reported all week they could see fish feeding but were difficult to temp. Corner of the stones into Green Bay anglers reported a good number of fish moving all week with fish caught from this area with either small black buzzer or fry in them.

In front of the main dam & again this week the mouth of the Markfield Arm were the other two main areas anglers reported seeing trout move.

The daddy on a floating line or floating fry, white booby or minkie booby on an intermediate caught best although anglers also caught on damsel, cats whisker, suspender buzzer & diawl bach

Dave Rossin fished the last 4 hour session with a daddy to take 4 fish,  Trevor Pegg fished a Pearly Pheasant Tail & Humungus pattern to take his 5 trout, Mr Whyman managed 5 for his Sunday morning visit.

The largest concentration of fry can currently be found along the stones into green bay with trout to be seen feeding on them.

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am

Part Day Boats 8.30 – 1.30pm  /   1.30pm – 7.15pm

Last 4 hours 3.15pm – 7.15pm

All Anglers offsite by 7.30pm

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Burton On Trent Game Fishing & Fly Tying Festival

At Burton Town Hall Sunday 5^th October 10.00am – 5.00pm

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Thornton    01530 230807

Weekly Report ending 21st September

Please Note This Week Thursday 25^th & Friday 26^th September anglers one they have unloaded their tackle at the lodge will need to take their cars to the main car park due to maintenance work been carried out in the anglers car park

126 rods recorded 187 trout for the week for a rod average 1.5

With the water temperature creeping up a little this week during the day anglers found some fish feeding close to the surface while others went deep with sinking lines and booby.

Clive Holt used small suspender buzzers to catch his 6 fish on an afternoon visit, Rodger Jones went down the Markfield arm and caught 7 trout for 17lb on sedge, buzzer & damsel, Norman Perkins used hopper to catch his 13 trout with Mark Goode using a Daddy to catch his 6.

Anglers reported trout willing to chase a lure or fry pattern through the wave but would come that extra inch & take the fly. With the water temperature dropping this week we may see them more prepared to take.

Members from the Complete Fisher Forum visited Thornton for their annual bash, thanks to Nigel for organising the three day event & for Paul who shared his killing booby pattern which helped boost catches.,

Best area, Main Dam, Stones & Markfield Arm

Water clarity remains good.

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am

Part Day Boats 8.30 – 1.30pm  /   1.30pm – 7.30pm

Last 4 hours 3.30pm – 7.30pm

All Anglers offsite by 7.45pm

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Thornton    01530 230807

Weekly Report ending 14^th September

114 rods recorded 187 trout for the week for a rod average 1.6

The great weather were enjoying this September has had the unlikely impact of gently pushing the water temperature back up slightly with the surface temperature this past week between 18 & 19 degrees. Normally not a problem but coming off the back of a hot summer it’s had the unlikely September effect of pushing fish off the surface.

Those anglers prepared to pick up a sinking line or fish with an indicator & ignore any fish moving on the surface scored best with the deeper water in front of the dam & across to the stones fishing best.

Chris Sayer fished with his 8 year old grandson Harris on Sunday catching 15 fish with Harris catching 7 of them.

Best patterns, Booby, gold headed daddy, blob, buzzer & dry daddies

On Saturday we held the Steve Parton Memorial Competition, with Tubers fishing against boat anglers, the tubers one last year but this year the boat anglers scored a comprehensive win, fishing to a 4 fish kill limit they weighed 62lb1oz against the tubers 30lb8oz, top rod for the boat anglers were Brian Sibley who weighed in 4 fish for 13lb4oz including a brown of 3lb7oz, great to see the Parton family attending to present the cup.

Water clarity remains good.

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am

Part Day Boats 8.30 – 2.00pm  /   2.00pm – 7.45pm

Last 4 hours 3.45pm – 7.45pm

All Anglers offsite by 8.00pm

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Thornton    01530 230807

Weekly Report ending 7^th September 2014

128 rods recorded 268 trout for the week for a rod average 2.1

Floating line was all that was required for most of the week with the near perfect weather conditions, light breeze with overcast spells ensured the trout fed off the surface with dries, cdc, suspender buzzer & shipmans buzzer producing best.

The afternoon and evening has generally fished best, P Shortland caught 3 for his late evening vist including a brown 3lb5oz all on a foam daddy, Clive Holt caught 5 on shipman’s, John Everett caught 5 on buzzers. During the week West Midlands Police visited Thornton for days fishing with many of them regulars at Draycote & Foremark but visiting us for the first time, two of those were Draycote members Graham Homer and A Butler who soon got to grips with Thornton’s trout catching 14 between them mainly on dries

Best areas are the Markfield arm, anglers report good numbers of fish moving in this area & the stone bank.

Anglers fishing on the drift are generally catching better than anglers sat on the anchor, this is notable during the evening rise.

Water clarity remains good.

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am

Part Day Boats 8.30 – 2.00pm  /   2.00pm – 8.00pm

Last 4 hours 4.00pm – 8.00pm

All Anglers offsite by 8.15pm

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Weekly Report ending 31st August

108 rods recorded 215 trout for the week for a rod average 2

Anglers report seeing plenty of trout moving last week to good hatches of claret & olive buzzers with these hatches increasing during the late afternoon & into the evening, not surprising therefore we experienced some of our best evening rise fishing of the season so far during last week.

Some caenis is still about, we find a sparkle gnat or tups works well when the fish are on them. Plenty of sedge about in the late evening

Clive Holt fished the evening session catching 6 trout, Russ Martin fished dries during his evenings visit  catch 5 trout, Mark Hunt changed his booking from a morning boat to an afternoon fishing daddies and shipmans to boat 7 trout.

Currently the afternoon session is the most productive.

Best patterns, daddies, hopper, cdc, shipman’s & buzzer.

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am

Part Day Boats 8.30 – 2.00pm  /   2.00pm – 8.15pm

Last 4 hours 4.15pm – 8.15pm

All Anglers offsite by 8.30pm

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