Just for a change,

[alan]

where abouts is it Mike ?

[willywetegg]

Howay Alan man, just round tthat island by the looks of things mate.

Jim.

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Somewhere under a helicopter Alan .
Looks fantastic there Mike.

[MikeR]

It\'s Walton Hall trout fishery in Wakefield:

http://www.flyfishery.net/

and the Hotel is the Waterton Park Hotel. I had the good session around the back of the hotel where there is a narrow jetty. There is a deep channel that runs from the small island towards the island that the hotel is on which can fish well, and in the top left hand corner of the photo you can see the lake narrows.

This leads to \'The Net\' where you occasionally hit a big one (and lose it), and I\'ve also had a number of pike from this area. There are some big pike in here that are never fished for. Once saw a huge one swimming under the boat with a big trout hanging sideways out of it\'s mouth - reminded me of the way a dog carries a newspaper.

[alan]

Ok thanks for nowt
I was asking Mike anyway so V

[alan]

that was quick lol,cheers Mike

[Hiram.A.Biff]

do you lads that go fly fishing for trout get as much satisfaction out of catching fish that are stocked by man into small waters as catching fish that are naturally occuring ?
just wondering since although fly fishing for trout is a branch of the sport i\'ve never tried, i do quite a bit of pike fishing. now i mainly fish for pike in large to huge lochs where they are naturally occuring and enjoy it immensley getting a few really good fish but having to wade through dozens of jacks to get the biggies. i\'ve also tried piking in some tiny waters where the pike are stocked and the chance of a huge pike is a very real possibility, however the appeal is simply not the same and a big fish from such a water simply doesn\'t mean as much to me personally.
not trying to diss anyone for what they enjoy, whatever floats your boat, but just interested to know what others think.

No, is the answer to that Micky, I like the buzz of the take, and the fact that USUALLY youre going home with fish, i usually go when I need an angling hit, but the tides are wrong. Id love a go at piking, but rocka angling is my fave by far. I only got back into Fly Fishing last year when I was working on a stretch with membership available.

[mark]

doesn\'t do it for me either, much prefer stalking the wild ones in the rivers or the scottish lochs (cow green being the exception which is as near to a scottish loch you can get without being in scotland!)

fished a stockie water near pickering a few years back, on one bank no one was catching, guy walks out of hut with a pot of trout pellets and chucks em in on that bank, minutes later that side of the water was lifting with fish waiting for a feed.

what value a record rainbow trout?? you could buy a 35lb farm fish, chuck it in and a week or 2 later your water has a record fish caught??

not rubbishing them altogether, they\'re just not for me. I am planning to take the kids to one of the stockie waters this year, figuring their increased chances of catching will do wonders for their enthusiasm

the few stockie rainbows I\'ve caught over the years haven\'t given me much sport either, maybe just bad luck, but I swear a 6lb fish I had once just had a heart attack and died!

took a 5lb sea trout in the wear last year and it nearly stripped 150yds of backing line off the reel, could only imagine what a 20lb fresh run salmon would do

mind you the parting with money to fish bit puts me off as well I have to say!