Thornton Weekly update week ending 8^th September

Another mixed week with anglers catching on daddies & hoppers while others found success with minkie boobies.

The area in front of the dam down to the orange buoys continue to be the area that the majority of anglers are heading to, but it wont be long especially with the distinct change in the weather we will see the trout start to move into the arms.

Buzzers, daddies & large sedge hatches are giving us an evening rise but it can all happen in that last half hour.

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Thornton Weekly update week ending 1^st September

With the rod average at 2.0 Thornton continues to improve but depending on the days weather its either a case of fishing a floating line with dries or fast sinker with booby.

Junior angler T Gamble fished from a float tube up alongside the weed beds up the Thornton arm catching 12 trout. Chris Vernon fished a morning session over the deeper water to catch 7 fish to 3lb8oz, Russ Martin enjoyed an evening’s session catching fish to a home tied daddy, Mr Crone fished an evening session taking two fish on a cats whisker before swapping to dries and taking a further 3 trout.

Some regular anglers fishing on Saturday reported fish feeding on the fry, a sure sign autumn is upon us.

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Thornton Weekly update week ending 25th August

Conditions continue to improve with a favourable weather forecast for the fishing as we leave summer and move into the autumn

Every evening this past week we have seen hatches of the large claret buzzer, some evening the hatches have been great the best we have seen for a number of years with sedges and daddies on the water, roll on September it will only get better and better.

Dapping isn’t something you see often practised on midland reservoir, Mark Clark decided to try a bit of dapping one evening catching 2 trout and missing over a dozen others.

Clive Holt fished the evening rise catching 6 trout, Mr Liggins fished with his son during a late evening session catching 10 on daddies, sedges and damsel, T Pegg fished a morning session with buzzer and hares ear to catch 7 trout with W Allardyce using a dry sedge pattern to take a 5lb rainbow.

The majority of the trout are in the upper levels of the water with muddlers, dries and damsels fished on a floating line.

Water temperature is 16 degrees with our water clarity good

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

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Thornton Weekly update week ending 18th August

Fishing at Thornton continues to improve with cooler water temperatures & the more seasonal air temperatures been favourable for trout fishing our water clarity is good as are the reservoir water levels.

With the water temperature closer to 16 degrees the trout have moved up in the water with any periods of cloud seeing plenty of trout feeding off the surface to good hatches of buzzer (claret buzzer) and sedges.

Anglers who have fished the late evening and been prepared to stay out until its dark and time for the boats to come in. That last 20 minutes been rewarded with a good evening rise especially in front of the boat pontoon.

Floating line or midge tip with buzzers, damsel, dries and a muddler have worked best with the area in front of the lodge, main dam and green bay fishing best.

Clive Holt fished the late evening rise on Monday and Tuesday evening taking 5 trout each evening up to 4lb8oz, A Crone fished a morning session with diawl bach catching 7 trout to 3lb, B White also fished a morning session catching 6 trout, Chris Sayer fished a muddler to catch his 5 trout to 4lb8oz during Friday morning session, while Mr Rankine fished a red eyed damsel to record a 12 trout for his visit, a diawl bach and hares ear took 8 trout including a brown and two trout over 3lb for Mark Hunt morning session.

Frank Parker won the local angling club Kirby Fly Fishers competition, Frank took 6 trout including a brown trout of 3lb5oz

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Main gate, lodge & bank fishing open 7.30am

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Thornton Weekly update week ending 11th August

At last with cooler air and water temperatures we are starting to see an improvement in the fishing with trout starting to move in the upper layers of the reservoir once again.

Floating lines with buzzer, damsel & dries are once again starting to take fish, with anglers reporting fish feeding on the surface during any overcast spells in the weather.

Over the deeper water in front of the main dam, orange buoy & green bay continues to be the area to try with the morning session & late evening session been the most productive time to fish

With an improving forecast for the fishing we should continue to see sport improving this week.

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 – 9.00pm

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Thornton Weekly update week ending  4th August

These past 3 weeks with its heat wave which at times pushed the surface water temperature to above 22 degrees as understandably took its toll on the fishing, however these last few days and the cooler forecast for this week has enabled us to stock which should improve the fishing.

This morning our surface water temperature is at a much better 18.5degrees with water clarity excellent.

During the past week the morning session has fished best with anglers concentrating their efforts to the deeper water in front of the dam, green bay and small orange buoy using either a floating line with long, long leaders 25ft+ or a fast sinking line and booby.

This morning (Monday) with a much cooler air temperature & heavy rain we have seen a number of trout moving through the wave especially in front of the dam & green bay.

With an improving forecast for the fishing we should see sport improve this week.

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 – 9.15pm

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Thornton Weekly update week ending  14th July

Mornings are producing best with the anglers that are catching using either a fast sinking line and a booby or a floating line indicator  20ft+ leader with bloodworm and buzzer patterns on the lower 6 – 10ft of the leader.

Anglers out with fish finders reported plenty of trout in the deeper water from the orange buoy to the dam but the majority of the trout are within 2ft of the bottom.

With this weather forecast for this coming week aim to be at the fishery and ready to go out at 8.00am to catch any coolness from the night.

Follow our advice and you will catch, Dave Saunt & Charlie Abrahams caught 7 today on a damsel booby

Our water clarity is excellent.

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 – 10.00pm

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Thornton Weekly update week ending  7th July

Summer has arrived with a vengeance!

During this warm / hot spell of weather the cooler morning session will generally be the most productive time to fish with anglers moving from their floating lines and reaching for their sinking lines with damsel, blobs & booby patterns sure to feature in the catch return.

Its time to concentrate on the deeper cooler water in front of the main dam & orange buoy, fish are there to be caught just a different approach now required.

Melvyn Pepper and John Smith showed on Saturday that an indicator with buzzers fished deep and static will still take fish, but they did concentrate their efforts to the deeper water of green bay

Our water clarity is excellent.

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 – 10.00pm

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Last 4 Hour 5.45pm – 10.00pm

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Thornton Weekly update week ending  30th June

Not an easy weeks fishing for us with the rod average at 1.2 with the trout spooned showing they are feeding hard on water flea and small / tiny buzzers

Its one of the strange things about fly fishing anglers have tried fishing with small buzzers and nymph patterns and failed yet put on a tequila blob on a floater throw it out towards a feeding fish and pull it back as quick as you can resulted in fish in the boat, so much for matching the hatch!!

This last week muddlers and blobs pulled quickly across the surface or just under was by far the most successful method, B Fox fished an orange muddler to take 5 fish to 6lb+ another 6lb rainbow was recorded by Phil Collins again on a surface pulled blob.

Our water clarity is excellent

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 – 10.00pm

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Last 4 Hour 5.45pm – 10.00pm

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Thornton Weekly update week ending 24th June

By the end of last week our water clarity was once again good but the fishing remained a challenge for most of the week with 112 rods averaging 1.2

Anglers reported seeing at times good numbers of fish moving but they were preoccupied feeding on the newly hatch coarse fish fry, pin fry.

If you pulled a muddler or similar pattern through the surface you would get plenty of follows the challenge was turning those follows into takes.

Damsels have at long last started to show a bit of warmer weather and we should see a lot more of them.

Nev Welsh the week previous recorded a rainbow of 7lb3oz, this week Mark Brown 4lb4oz rainbow, Roger Jones 4lb12oz, M Norman 4lb, Mark Sturgees rainbows of 3lb5oz and 3lb4oz with Tony Lorrimer recording 14 trout to 3lb

The forecast for this last week of June looks good for fishing with improving temperatures and favourable wind speeds.

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 – 10.00pm

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Last 4 Hour 5.45pm – 10.00pm

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