Fly fishing

[Red5]

New lake has just opened a few weeks ago at Shilbottle near Alnwick.
Fished for the first time there yesterday and it was cracking. Had loads of problems with the wind but had a 10-11lb Rainbow on the specimen pond. Apparently there are much bigger ones there and on the put and take lake people having been getting bags into double figures!
2 really nice lads running the place. Fish in there are rainbows, browns and blue trout and apparently it will be stocked soon with tiger trout up to 10lbs.

[sless]

what are the prices for the fishing

thanks

[Red5]

£10 for a sporting ticket/catch and release. Alos entitles you to go on the specimen pond.
£10 for normal ticket plus one fish
£17.50 for 2 fish
£23.50 for 3 fish

As far as I know that is prices for the day. I went up at 1.30 but had to pick me oldest up from kickboxing later on and then went back up and hour later and fished till 6.30.
times are 7.30 am ytil dusk!

[sless]

thats not a bad price

[mark]

hope the quaity of fish is better than all the other stockie waters. never really appealed to me catching stocked fish. last time I was at one was sweethope. caught an 8lb rainbow, was like pulling in a wet rag. I sware it actually had a heart attack and died as soon as it was hooked.

had better fights from 8oz wild brownies at cow green

maybe I\'ve just been to bad waters, but the few I\'ve fished have kinda put me off. Much prefer wild fish. fiver a day on the wear up our way, loads of browies and sea trout to play with

[Charlton]

Mark, it could quite well of had a heart attack, stocked fish are fed so they grow quicker and this puts an enormous strain on their heart, that is why they put up such a poor fight. It is just like me or you eating stodgy foods for months with no excercise and then told to run a marathon. How far would we get. Heart attack alright.

[Red5]

took 20 mins to land it.

[Red5]

I\'ve only been fly fishing twice before and only had two 2lbers so I don\'t know if 20 mins is a good time or not
Directions are: head north up the A1 it\'s about 5 mins south of Alnwick. Take the first turn off for Shilbottle and it\'s immediately as you turn off before a row of houses. Reception is just as you go in and it\'s the road to the old Whittle pit. it\'s a further mile or so down a dirt track to the 2 ponds and you just park up literally at the ponds.
Give it a try. You can\'t really grumble for a tenner!

[mands]

fished the ladies comp at Langley a while back had a great day
nice to know im not the only female with a fishing rod!!!!

got second heaviest fish just missed out by 2oz
never mind i might have better luck next year..

dont get to do much fly fishing any more as squid has took up sea fishing with my dad ...

mands

[5150]

Whenever I see \"Fly fishing\" mentioned I always have a vision of a hook baited with poop...

Sorry, couldn\'t resist that one...

[bribones]

something ive never had a go at ,how do you attach the fly to that strimmer looking wire ?its something ive thought about for a while what with a lot of the river spots further north being fly only

[sless]

by using a leader
about 7lb b/s
or if your good you go down to 3 or 4 lb
im still on 50lb shock leader
lol

[bribones]

must be a bit of a **** getting a knot to hold in that thick stuff though
i was looking at some of the starter kits ,not bad prices,might give it a go next year ,see what santa brings

[sless]

you get things called leader loops that grip the fly line then you tie your leader to the loop
then whip yourself to death
hahaha

[bribones]

well if i do give it a go ill have to buy a divvys guide to fly fishing,what do you do with the flys once youve caught them ?