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Sharpley Springs/Waters Fishing Report
How\'s it fishing
Plenty of hard fighting blues and rainbows in the 8 to 11lb range this week, M Proudlock fishing on a 4 hour ticket took fish to 33lbs with his best being a 12 pounder followed by a 9lb and 6lb rainbow of a bag of 6 fish.
Ryan Barrows in two visits this week netted 28 including a 9 pounder-using a zonkers, bloodworms and a bunny leach. D Greally used a bloodworm to net a fine 10lb 4oz trout and P. Metcalf caught a 10lb 3oz fish on a PTN. Dave Terblanche from Cheaster-le-street who fishes regularly at the Springs
released 22 on the Noose, M Ruddick also released 29 in two visits this week.
Andrew Bogan, P Gibson and M Mc Kee all recorded trout of between 8 and 9 lbs. Wade Brown of Preston village took an 11lb 9oz rainbow on the Alice and Albert lake.
Tactics
This venue fishes well year-round with the centrally-heated lodge a real boon at this time of year and the absence of a \"kick you off at dusk\" policy essential to allow anglers too
fully exploit the evening rises at other times of year.
The variety of lakes of hugely differing volumes means that as temperatures fluctuate some lakes will respond better than others so the wise angler will experiment a little, selecting the Doxford in a cold snap and the smaller Albert and Alice if a warm wind blows. The down-wind banks should then see
accumulation of stock in these conditions.
Cats Whiskers and white zonkers fished slowly on a long leader and floating line are bending rods at present as are weighted bloodworms fished similarly. Buzzers are consistently proving their worth and not always in small sizes,
Black size 10\'s with a sparkly rib are doing the business on a drift. Plenty of fish have been showing in the unusually light winds though not particularly easy to tempt off the top.
fly box;
Black buzzers
Red/pink devils
Midge larvae
Cats Whiskers
White/black Zonkers
PTN
Black nymph
How\'s it fishing
Plenty of hard fighting blues and rainbows in the 8 to 11lb range this week, M Proudlock fishing on a 4 hour ticket took fish to 33lbs with his best being a 12 pounder followed by a 9lb and 6lb rainbow of a bag of 6 fish.
Ryan Barrows in two visits this week netted 28 including a 9 pounder-using a zonkers, bloodworms and a bunny leach. D Greally used a bloodworm to net a fine 10lb 4oz trout and P. Metcalf caught a 10lb 3oz fish on a PTN. Dave Terblanche from Cheaster-le-street who fishes regularly at the Springs
released 22 on the Noose, M Ruddick also released 29 in two visits this week.
Andrew Bogan, P Gibson and M Mc Kee all recorded trout of between 8 and 9 lbs. Wade Brown of Preston village took an 11lb 9oz rainbow on the Alice and Albert lake.
Tactics
This venue fishes well year-round with the centrally-heated lodge a real boon at this time of year and the absence of a \"kick you off at dusk\" policy essential to allow anglers too
fully exploit the evening rises at other times of year.
The variety of lakes of hugely differing volumes means that as temperatures fluctuate some lakes will respond better than others so the wise angler will experiment a little, selecting the Doxford in a cold snap and the smaller Albert and Alice if a warm wind blows. The down-wind banks should then see
accumulation of stock in these conditions.
Cats Whiskers and white zonkers fished slowly on a long leader and floating line are bending rods at present as are weighted bloodworms fished similarly. Buzzers are consistently proving their worth and not always in small sizes,
Black size 10\'s with a sparkly rib are doing the business on a drift. Plenty of fish have been showing in the unusually light winds though not particularly easy to tempt off the top.
fly box;
Black buzzers
Red/pink devils
Midge larvae
Cats Whiskers
White/black Zonkers
PTN
Black nymph
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