Thornton 2013 Season has drawn to a close.
We would like to thank you for your support during 2013
If your interested in a season permit for 2014 contact the lodge asap 01530 230807
Good news for 2014 Day Permits & Season Permits to remain the same “No Price Increase”
Thornton Weekly update week ending 10th November
Thornton enters its last week of the season with our closing date falling on Sunday 17th November
This past week has been a mixed affair with the weather, strong winds at time & heavy rain not helping.
Despite the rain our water clarity remains good.
Fry patterns fished along the weed beds along the Thornton Arm, wood bank, lonesome pine & farm bank continues to be the best areas.
Quality of the trout taken during this time of year is excellent with 33 trout over 3lb recorded, Neil James caught 3 trout for his visit 5lb12oz, 5lb4oz & 5lb3oz, Mick Adkin caught rainbows of 5lb, 4lb8oz, 3lb8oz & 2lb8oz, K Russell caught a rainbow of 6lb as did Jack Hives. S Zeleny & S Swinfield caught 11 trout to their boats including a rainbow of 6lb & a brown of 3lb12oz.
Main gate, lodge & bank fishing open 7.30am
Full Day Boats 8.30am – 4.30pm
Part Day Boats 8.30am – 12.00pm / 12.00pm – 4.30pm
All anglers offsite by 5.00pm
Call the lodge 01530 230807
Visit us on facebook www.facebook.com/FlyFishStore
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2014 Season Permits: We are updating our membership waiting list, if your interested in the possibility of a season permit at Thornton for the 2014 season contact the lodge ASAP to ensure we have your contact details.
Thornton Weekly update week ending 4th November
Its not surprising at this time of year to pick your days around the weather, and this last week again when the weather was good our anglers were rewarded by catching some quality trout with over 30 trout recorded over 3lb with the best 6lb8oz caught by Richard Collier, Dave Buckley 6lb, J Smith 5lb, C Meads 5lb4oz, D Price 5lb4oz, N James 5lb, B Nichols 5lb14oz, A Miles 5lb14oz with most taking fry patterns
In the main the weed beds of the Thornton Arm, Wood Bank, Lonesome Pine are producing best but the farm bank and green bay are also well worth giving a go.
Despite the weather wind and rain at times our water clarity remains good
Thornton 2013 season will draw to a close on Sunday 17th November
Main gate, lodge & bank fishing open 7.30am
Full Day Boats 8.30am – 4.45pm
Part Day Boats 8.30am – 12.30pm / 12.30pm – 4.45pm
All anglers offsite by 5.15pm
Call the lodge 01530 230807
Visit us on facebook www.facebook.com/FlyFishStore
Visit us on twitter www.twitter.com/FlyFishStore
2014 Season Permits: We are updating our membership waiting list, if your interested in the possibility of a season permit at Thornton for the 2014 season contact the lodge ASAP to ensure we have your contact details.
Thornton Weekly update week ending 27th October
Despite the wind and rain our water clarity remains good.
The weed beds are the areas to concentrate on with the area in front of the wood currently producing best to floating lines and fry patterns although some anglers are catching on hare`s ear, diwal bach and cruncher.
Anglers fishing boobies deep are having success by concentrating their fishing along the old stream bed that runs up both the arms.
Thornton produced 46 trout over 4lb last week of which 11 weighed over 6lb with S Frakes recording a rainbow of 7lb, Mr Dunnett also caught a 7lb rainbow. Steve Warner on the float tube day caught fish of 5lb and 6lb
Main gate, lodge & bank fishing open 7.30am
Full Day Boats 8.30am – 5.00pm
Part Day Boats 8.30am – 12.30pm / 12.30pm – 5.00pm
All anglers offsite by 5.30pm
Call the lodge 01530 230807
Visit us on facebook www.facebook.com/FlyFishStore
Visit us on twitter www.twitter.com/FlyFishStore
2014 Season Permits: We are updating our membership waiting list, if your interested in the possibility of a season permit at Thornton for the 2014 season contact the lodge ASAP to ensure we have your contact details.
Thornton Weekly update week ending 20h October
Typical autumn weather kept rods away some days of last week, but when the weather allowed there were some great catches mainly taken from the weed beds using floating lines with fry patterns.
We had 23 trout over 5lb recorded last week with Clive Cattell taking 8 fish for a total weight of over 41lb
Phil Moore caught 10 trout including a brown of 3lb2oz and a rainbow of 6lb6oz, Jim Everitt also caught a brown of 4lb
Although most of the trout are falling to fry patterns Mark Hunt caught 4 trout the smallest 3lb and the largest 5lb13oz on a cruncher .
Stuart Thompson put his chest waders on to help him get over the weed and was rewarded with 2 fish from the bank
Pictures of some of the catches posted on our facebook & twitter pages
With Thornton open until November 17th you still have a few weeks to get amongst the fry feeders.
Main gate, lodge & bank fishing open 7.30am
Full Day Boats 8.30am – 6.00pm
Part Day Boats 8.30am – 1.00pm / 1.00pm – 6.00pm
All anglers offsite by 6.30pm
Call the lodge 01530 230807
Visit us on facebook www.facebook.com/FlyFishStore
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Thornton Weekly update week ending 13th October
The weather this past week was not ideal with strong winds and heavy rain at times.
Despite the rain our water clarity remains good
The weed beds along the Thornton arm, wood bank and down towards the lonesome pine are holding increasing numbers of trout as the trout start moving in on the fry.
Some anglers are still getting some sport to nymph & buzzers with Mark Hunt fishing in the worst of the weather on Saturday fishing a dry daddy to catch as did Dennis Barnes earlier in the week to take fish to 4lb4oz
Anglers using Minkies and fry patterns are finding that using the patterns on a floating line are producing best results
The best of the sport seems to be mid morning through to late afternoon.
The autumn great time to be out on the midland reservoirs
Our last four hours fishing 1 fish kill + Catch & Release £10 and a rowing boat £4.00 offers great value.
Main gate, lodge & 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 offsite by 6.30pm
Call the lodge 01530 230807
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Thornton Weekly update week ending 6th October
This past week we held the Steve Parton Memorial match, 14 float tubers up against 14 boat anglers, the eventual winners is unimportant suffice to say the tubers trounced the boat angler, Jeanna Parton and family attended to hand out the winners trophy, this will become an annual event
Our fish are starting to move into the margins, the weed beds in front of the willows in particular are starting to hold good numbers, Cive Holt caught 6 from this area on Monday evening.
A few trout are still falling to the daddy but fry patterns are taking the majority of the trout with a floating fry, white muddler or minkie booby pulled through the surface getting lots of follows,
Andy Burton and Russ Martin both recorded trout weighing over 5lb this week with a number of anglers recording trout weighing 3lb or more
Best area green bay, wood bank and weed beds along the shallows.
The autumn great time to be out on the midland reservoirs
Our last four hours fishing 1 fish kill + Catch & Release £10 and a rowing boat £4.00 offers great value.
Main gate, lodge & bank fishing open 7.30am
Full Day Boats 8.30am – 6.45pm
Part Day Boats 8.30am – 1.30pm / 1.30pm – 7.00pm
Last 4 Hour 2.45pm – 6.45pm
All anglers offsite by 6.45pm
Call the lodge 01530 230807
Visit us on facebook www.facebook.com/FlyFishStore
Visit us on twitter www.twitter.com/FlyFishStore
Local Angling club Thornton Fly Fishers start their winter programme this month with Fly Tying starting on October 2nd great opportunity to learn
October 16Th the owner of Palm Springs salmon fishery is coming along to give a talk.
Club meets Wednesday nights from 7.30pm at the Thornton Working Mens Club
Thornton Weekly update week ending 30th September
A change in the fishing this week, daddies were the fly of choice at the start of the week but towards the end of the week and the cooler east winds more and more trout started falling to fry patterns and blobs
With a rod average of 2.5 this past week and a significant number of 3lb+ trout caught, 16 trout over 4lb recorded with Phil Dougan taking a 5lb rainbow, Ian Lindsey 5lb, with T McInally taking the best fish of the week 6lb8oz rainbow as we move into October we can expect some good fish to be taken.
The trout are starting to move from the deeper water into the arms and along the weed beds looking for the fry as we move into October the weed beds will start to produce more and more fish.
Members of the Complete Fisher Forum had their annual weekend get together at Thornton, they had a great weekend look forward to seeing you all next year
Best patterns, daddies, minkie, cats whisker, blob
The autumn great time to be out on the midland reservoirs
Our last four hours fishing 1 fish kill + Catch & Release £10 and a rowing boat £4.00 offers great value.
Main gate, lodge & 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 offsite by 7.15pm
Call the lodge 01530 230807
Visit us on facebook www.facebook.com/FlyFishStore
Visit us on twitter www.twitter.com/FlyFishStore
Local Angling club Thornton Fly Fishers start their winter programme this month with Fly Tying starting on October 2nd great opportunity to learn
October 16Th the owner of Palm Springs salmon fishery is coming along to give a talk.
Club meets Wednesday nights from 7.30pm at the Thornton Working Mens Club
SEE US AT THE BURTON ON TRENT GAME FISHING & FLY TYING FESTIVAL
SUNDAY 6th OCTOBER 10am – 5pm
Thornton Weekly update week ending 22nd September
A great end to the week, glorious weather, lots of daddies, buzzer and sedge on the water providing great dry fly sport. We are experiencing some of the best daddy fishing in years
Mark Goode who does a great deal of work supporting the Leicestershire Disabled angling club bought a small group of anglers to Thornton on Sunday with Mark fishing a daddy to catch 17 trout including a 4lb brown.
Junior angler Tom Gamble fished from his float tube to catch 7 trout including 5 brown with the biggest weighing 4lb. Mr Walklate fished an afternoon session using a deer hair sedge to catch 8 trout to 3lb, Mark Hunt fished a morning session catching 6 fish including two over 4lb on diwal bach and buzzer. Good old traditional wet fly the Kate McLaren caught 16 trout including a 4lb brown for Alex Rankin. Tony Lorrimer caught 10 trout for his visit while Clive Holt fished a late evening session taking 5 trout to 5lb2oz
The majority of the trout are still out over the deeper water but with the cooler nights it won’t be long before they start moving into the arms. This past week daddies and hoppers reigned supreme but a few trout did fall to white boobies on a washing lines, these trout were already feeding hard on the fry.
The autumn great time to be out on the midland reservoirs
Our last four hours fishing 1 fish kill + Catch & Release £10 and a rowing boat £4.00 offers great value.
Main gate, lodge & bank fishing open 7.30am
Full Day Boats 8.30am – 7.30pm
Part Day Boats 8.30am – 2.00pm / 2.00pm – 7.30pm
Last 4 Hour 3.30pm – 7.30pm
All anglers offsite by 8.00pm
Call the lodge 01530 230807
Visit us on facebook www.facebook.com/FlyFishStore
Visit us on twitter www.twitter.com/FlyFishStore
SEE US AT THE BURTON ON TRENT GAME FISHING & FLY TYING FESTIVAL
SUNDAY 6th OCTOBER 10am – 5pm
Thornton Weekly update week ending 15th September
It has that autumn feel about it, cooler morning & evenings but great fishing weather with the majority of the trout caught this past week on floating lines with dries especially the daddy, suspender buzzer & muddlers with the fishery rod average 2.7
The orange buoy to the dam wall & across to the main car park produced best but get the wind in the south west blowing down the Markfield arm its certainly been worth a visit.
Mark Hunt fished the Markfield arm taking 9 trout to 4lb8oz on klinks & buzzer, Brian Sibley used a daddy to catch his 6 fish on Saturday morning while Mr Liggins & son fished the last four hour session using a daddy to boat 11 trout, Neil Bates fished an afternoon session catching his 6 fish limit. Andy Dermott fished hoppers & daddies to catch his 10 fish for his morning visit.
As is often the case as we enter the autumn we start catching trout which have been in the water for some time, D Timms 5lb rainbow, W Lewin 5lb4oz rainbow, A Dermott 5lb rainbow & Bob Memhams fished a daddy to catch 5lb8oz rainbow picture on our facebook page
Our last four hours fishing 1 fish kill + Catch & Release £10 and a rowing boat £4.00 offers great value.
Main gate, lodge & bank fishing open 7.30am
Full Day Boats 8.30am – 7.45pm
Part Day Boats 8.30am – 2.00pm / 2.00pm – 7.45pm
Last 4 Hour 3.45pm – 7.45pm
All anglers offsite by 8.00pm
Call the lodge 01530 230807
Visit us on facebook www.facebook.com/FlyFishStore
Visit us on twitter www.twitter.com/FlyFishStore
SEE US AT THE BURTON ON TRENT GAME FISHING & FLY TYING FESTIVAL
SUNDAY 6th OCTOBER 10am – 5pm