Weekly Report ending 1^st June     Thornton 01530 230807

123 rods recorded 257 trout for the week for a rod average 2.1

Buzzer, sedges, damsel, daddies, caenis, pin fry, snails, bloodworm have all been available for the trout to feed on this past week, nature`s larder store is well & truly open

We have seen some good evening rises this week if at times the trout proved a bit tricky with the caenis showing in increasing numbers, although referred to as the anglers curse a single dry Sparkle gnat or tups will often work

Although our boats will fish better than the bank as we move into July,  Simon Giles who only took up fly fishing this year bank fished opposite the lodge using a daddy to catch 3 trout on Sunday morning.

Russ Martin has banked fished this week he also caught opposite the lodge but reported getting broken by some bigger fish down by the farm bank.

The deeper water in front of the dam, orange buoys, stones & green bay has produced best although in the late evening boat anglers have reported fish moving at the top of both the arms.

On the days its overcast or with showers forecast trout can be seen feeding off the top most of the day as a group of Scottish anglers, Mr Freter party of 6 anglers, enjoyed those conditions during their visit catching 30 trout on buzzers, before visiting Draycote on their second day.

 Our last 4 hour permit offers excellent value fishing from 5.25pm – 9.25pm

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am

Part Day Boats 8.30 – 2.30pm  /   2.30pm – 9.25pm

All Anglers offsite by 9.35pm

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Thornton    01530 230807

Weekly Report ending 25^th May

99 rods recorded 207 trout for the week for a rod average 2.0

Mixed weeks fishing for us, no fixed pattern to the weather or the fishing with the fish starting to move off the shallows into the deeper water with green bay, stones & the deeper water in front of the dam & orange buoys starting to produce.

First of the caenis was spotted on the water this past week which always makes for some interesting if challenging evening fishing. Towards the end of the week we had some excellent late evening buzzer hatches with the best of the sport to be had during the last couple of hours

D Timms caught 4lb8oz rainbow, Dave Ward 3lb8oz rainbow, R Dayman 3lb, L Conway 3lb, Pam Shuttlewood 4lb9oz, A Lawson 4lb, A Bradford 3lb10oz brown with buzzer, suspender buzzer, dries and damsel patterns working best

 Our last 4 hour permit offers excellent value fishing from 5.25pm – 9.25pm

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am

Part Day Boats 8.30 – 2.30pm  /   2.30pm – 9.25pm

All Anglers offsite by 9.35pm

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Thornton    01530 230807

Weekly Report ending 18^th May

134 rods recorded 404 trout for the week for a rod average 3.0

Conditions mid week were perfect, good amount of breeze, cloud cover with some sunny spells at times with good hatches of hawthorn and buzzer ensuring the trout moved for most of the day

Anglers caught on daddies, hawthorn, hoppers, buzzer, diawl bach & damsel patterns with the Markfield arm and green bay been the most productive areas. Boat anglers should start picking up fish on the drift with the area between the main dam & wood a favourite area to drift.

Bank anglers should concentrate their efforts from the corner of the wood down past the lonesome pine to the farm bank, this area you should see good numbers of hawthorn this week.

Keith Cowen caught a 3lb13oz rainbow, R. Townsend 3lb, N Perkins 3lb14oz, Alex Rankin 4lb, Tom Gamble 3lb8oz, Mark Hunt 5lb4oz, 4lb3oz 

If your coming to fish the bank we recommend you bring waders.

 Our last 4 hour permit offers excellent value fishing from 5.15pm – 9.15pm

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am

Part Day Boats 8.30 – 2.30pm  /   2.30pm – 9.15pm

All Anglers offsite by 9.25pm

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Thornton    01530 230807

Weekly Report ending 11^th May

113 rods recorded 431 trout for the week for a rod average 3.7

Buzzer & damsel patterns caught the majority of the trout this past week with some starting to take emerger patterns and dries

Still a good concentration of trout on the shallows and down past the lonesome pine where they have been for the past month or so, but this week we saw an increasing number of trout taken by boat anglers from the green bay and stone bank are

Mark Hunt fished green bay to catch 10 fish including a brown of 3lb12oz on a quill buzzer, T Pegg recorded rainbows 4lb2oz, 4lb & 3lb7oz John Dagnall, Darren Lee, Dave Currie, fished the float tube match and all recorded trout over 3lb, float tuber Brian Heald catching a 4lb rainbow.

The first of the Hawthorn is about with the warmer forecast for this week we should see an increasing number of these been blown onto the water and bringing the trout to the surface.

If your coming to fish the bank we recommend you bring waders.

 Our last 4 hour permit offers excellent value fishing from 5.00pm – 9.00pm

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am

Part Day Boats 8.30 – 2.30pm  /   2.30pm – 9.00pm

All Anglers offsite by 9.10pm

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Weekly Report ending 5^th May

138 rods recorded 517 trout for the week for a rod average 3.7

A better weeks fishing at Thornton with bank anglers enjoying good sport with the overcast conditions ensuring the trout remain close to the margins along the shallows.

Boat anglers are starting to find a few fish in green bay and down along the stones but the majority are still been caught all the way from the top of the Thornton arm along the shallows of the wood bank past the lonesome pine & down to the farm bank

In the main a floating line has worked best with buzzer, damsel & a few been taken on dries. When its bright a midge tip or intermediate line with blob, damsel & buzzers has worked. One bank angler took his limit on a stick fly a pattern not always used nowadays but still a pattern worth using.

Our evening rise is yet to get going properly, in the main due to a temperature drop most evenings, but a slight rise in the late evening temperature will kick start our evening rise sport

Four members of Staffordshire Police paid us a visit last week, M Cartlidge, J Goodwin, P Cleaver, T Strachan they had an excellent day all catching well into double figures.

Belgian anglers J Weissenberger & A Piccioli took advantage of the 3 day package we offer spending one day at Draycote, 2^nd day at Foremark and their 3^rd day at Thornton catching 16 trout on their Thornton visit

P Winnac caught 3lb rainbow, M Chapman 3lb, M Pepper 4lb10oz, M Scone 4lb10oz, F Liggins & M Liggins both caught trout at 4lb

If your coming to fish the bank we recommend you bring waders.

 Our last 4 hour permit offers excellent value fishing from 4.45pm – 8.45pm

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am

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

All Anglers offsite by 8.50pm

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Update

Forecast for the May Day Bank Holiday looks good for fishing with the rod average for this week up to 4.0

Buzzer, Damsel, Diawl Bach producing best with good buzzer hatches, its also time to look out for the Hawthorn fly.

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Thornton    01530 230807

Weekly Report ending 28^th April

103 rods recorded 291 trout for the week for a rod average 2.8

The wind did not settle this past week generally blowing from the east on some days we started with a north easterly, before it going to the south east and before the day ended it had gone back to a north easterly and at times it was the wind strength could be described as “fresh”

The trout are still in the main running the shallows were they have been for the past few weeks but they are starting to move with anglers who went to green bay reporting a good number of trout in this area.

Howard Davies caught 15 in what could be described as fresh conditions on Saturday he caught the majority from green bay, Nigel Organ had a good day fishing from his tube on Sunday catching 15 from the Markfield Arm while his companions Kevin Dewey, Mick Revell caught 15 between them from a boat. Russ Martin caught 5lb8oz rainbow from the bank, D Hodgson, A Bokenham, M Adkin, P Winnac, N James all recorded trout of 3lb+ with A Lawson recording a 4lb4oz rainbow

Floating Line, midge tip or intermediate lines with buzzer, damsel, Montana and bloodworm patterns working best

If your coming to fish the bank we recommend you bring waders.

With the clocks changing our last 4 hour permit offers excellent value fishing from 4pm – 8pm

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am

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

All Anglers offsite by 8.40pm

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Thornton    01530 230807

Weekly Report ending 22nd April

111 rods recorded 337 trout for the week for a rod average 3

Buzzer, cruncher and diawl bach patterns caught the majority of this weeks catch with a large number of trout to be found at the top of the Thornton arm and the bottom of the Markfield arm down to and beyond the farm bank

Notable trout this week G Over caught a 4lb8oz rainbow, M Chapman 4lb 8oz, A Court 4lb 8oz, T Green caught 2 at 4lb and one at 3lb, J Gunby 4lb, T Lorrimer 4lb 8oz, with some of these fish overwintered

Buzzer hatches are improving although the hatches currently may only last an hour anglers report trout feeding hard and are on the rise during these hatches

Boat & bank anglers are both catching trout from the shallows of the Thornton arm opposite the lodge along the wood bank down the Markfield arm past the lonesome pine to the farm bank.

If your coming to fish the bank we recommend you bring waders.

With the clocks changing our last 4 hour permit offers excellent value fishing from 4pm – 8pm

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am

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

All Anglers offsite by 8.30pm

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Thornton    01530 230807

Weekly Report ending 13th April

120 rods recorded 505 trout for the week for a rod average 4.2

Similar to our other venues buzzer patterns took an increasing number of trout this week with boat and bank anglers finding fish from the very top of the Thornton arm down past the farm bank to the bottom of the Markfield arm.

Floating line or intermediate worked best with buzzer, diawl bach, damsel or small cats whisker.

Mar Hunt caught fish of 5lb, 3lb12oz, Doug Timms 5lb4oz, H Pritchard 5lb, N James 4lb1oz, A Freer 4lb7oz, T Lorrimer 5lb12oz, Chris Sayer 4lb

Thornton Fly fishers angling club fished their annual bank match this week to a 4 fish limit, Russ Martin winning with 4 fish weighing 14lb4oz

If your coming to fish the bank we recommend you bring waders.

With the clocks changing our last 4 hour permit offers excellent value fishing from 4pm – 8pm

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am

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

All Anglers offsite by 8.15pm

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Weekly Report ending 6th April      Tel: 01530 230807

A steady weeks fishing for boat & bank anglers with 102 rods recording 339 trout caught for rod average 3.3

Bank & boat anglers are catching from the shallows of the Thornton arm in front of the wood and down to the lonesome pine with boat anglers also catching from the shallows at the top of the Thornton arm.

As we move into April expect catches to improve especially as the buzzer hatches increase from the farm bank & green bay area.

Noticeable this week the increasing number of trout caught on buzzers & cruncher patterns with the damsel pattern & mini cats whisker pattern also working.

On spooning fish caught this week a number have been feeding on buzzer, bloodworm & snails

If your coming to fish the bank we recommend you bring waders.

With the clocks changing our last 4 hour permit offers excellent value fishing from 4pm – 8pm

Main Gate, Lodge & Bank Fishing open 7.30am

Boats Available from 8.30am

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

All Anglers offsite by 8.15pm

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