Fishing Report

20/6/10 Update: Not much surface activity this week, but the catches have been good at times.J Tuck landed the best catch of 25 fish to 12lbs, with 8 others over 5lbs on blood worm and buzzers in a morning. J Mcneill landed 25 fish to 9lbs, while brother P Mcneill landed 12 fish  to 10lbs. M Proudfoot landed 16 to 6lbs and N Foster landed 19 to 5lbs, all these fish were on fly with most released. Worm was also accounting for some good catches, with fish up to 9lbs.

27/6/10 Update: Catches have stayed fairly steady throught the whole week, very good considering the weather. The best fish was landed by S Osborne at 10lbs on worm, he also returned a good brown of 3lbs. J Mcneill landed the best catch of the week of 18 fish to 6lbs, while brother Paul landed 10 to 8lbs to a catswisker. worm was doing better than fly at times, because of the bright conditions, how ever the algal bloom on the lake helped by providing shade and kept fish feeding all day. Fly fishermen have prefered to use intermediate line with good results, but when the sun is off the water fish are surface feeding.

4/7/10 Update: The finish of a poor week at Naworth. Worm fishermen did the best, with some good catches and this was the case for most of the week. Fly did have its moments, but all the fish are deep. We need some rain to freshen things up.

11/7/10 Update: Catches picked up this week due to the change in the weather. The algal bloom started to disperse as it got colder towards the end of the week and over the weekend, but it's not gone yet. The fish are not bothered though and on Saturday were surface feeding over a proportion of the day. We need a wet week to get back to normal, but with over 250 fish caught for the week it's not bad.

18/7/10 Update: Catches early in the week were steady but tailed off at the weekend due to the weather conditions and flood water. The algal bloom is still with use, but not as dense and should go soon. J Mcneill landed the best fish of the week from the boat at 12lbs to fly, M Proudfoot landed the best catch of 22 to 6.5lbs on fly and P Mcneill landed 16 fish to 3.5lbs to fly. R Rowley landed nothing again, but it's quite normal. T Parker landed 10 fish which included a 4.5lb brown, which was returned. All the fish are deep with very little surface activity. Ledger  and intermediate lines doing the best.

25/7/10 Update: Catches have again been steady all week, but worm has been producing the results in the main. By midweek tha algal bloom had almost gone, but came back to a lesser degree later. The fresh water has helped a lot. Some good large fish have featured throughout the week, but nothing bigger than 7lbs. The weekend rod average soared to 10 per rod, so it is hoped that this will remain.

1/8/10 Update: Catches have been good all week, with the largest rainbow landed by M Proudfoot at 7lbs, part of the 23 fish landed to fly. Other notable catches weremade by N Foster with 17 to 2lbs, P Mcneill with 13 to 4lbs and Joe Rowley with 2 to 2lbs. Many other bag limits were taken during the week, with a good number of fish in the 3-5lb range taken. Fly and worm doing equally as well. The algal bloom is just about gone know and fish are starting to surface feed again.

8/8/10 Update: What happens this week!!! just as we were thinking everything was going back to normal!. After fishing reasonably well all week, "rain" over friday night discoloured the water for the weekend. Bob Rowley was "devastated" as he'd brought his grandson to fish!, not a problem!!, grandson "3", Bob "2". Wait for next weeks epic, both are going out in the boat!!!!?.Back to normal things, the flood water seems to have stired up the blood worm population, so if your fishing fly, blood worm or anything small, red is the best colour. Worm has been slow, but there's plenty of surface activity.

15/8/10 Update: Not a good week!!, with the water discoloured for last friday and what happens next!, more rain at the same time following, leaving the lake very discoloured. Even so fly did fish better than worm, that was a surprise, but it was a struggle. At the end of the week however, the results weren't to bad and most rods had caught, but not in the usual numbers or of any size. The epic came to an end on Saturday when Bod and grandson fished from the boat, the result Bob with three and grandson two all on fly, this was a very good result considering the conditions, we'll just have to wait to see if it's a one off or may be his lucks changed!!

22/8/10 Update: The end of a very varied week, one day fishing well and the next not. The lake is still holding the discoloured water, however this didn't seem to matter at the end of the week and over the weekend when catches picked up to almost normal. All the rods fishing on Saturday were on fly! and every one caught, the best catch was to J Mcneill with 10 followed by P Mcneill with 9, aswell as other good catches.

29/8/10 Update: The end of an event full week, the lake although still discoloured, has on most days been fishing well, so maybe were going to be back to normal soon. We are takeing steps to stop the water getting discoloured in the future by diverting one of the inlets to the lake, the one causeing the problem. B Armstrong recorded the best catch of the week with 20 fish to 3.5lbs on a palmer type black and green fly. S Gordon also landed 17 fish to 5lbs, P Mcneill landed 12 fish, M Rochester and daughter 18 fish. A good number of bigger fish on the move again between 4-7lbs recorded. As a second to last mention, Mr Rowley and grandson Jordan fishing on Friday landed 21 fish between them, a very respectable catch, only time will tell if this can be sustained, probably not!. P Mcdonald another seasoned rod, just failed!!, lost the plot!. Possibly related to another regular rod with the same problem?.

5/9/10 Update: Most of the work diverting the second inlet has been done, this should know stop the discoloured water in the future. The early part of the week was slow and catches poor to worm, for the few fly rods early in the week it was better "just". Thursday saw a real change and catches rose to normal level. Fly is doing far better than worm at present and buzzers seem to be the best flies to use. On Sunday five rods fishing the shallows near the boat house, the boat was still out when I left, but were catching well by accounts, two other rods recorded 4 and 8 fish but P Mcdonald from haltwhistle just didn't touch a thing, that's fishing!!

Prospects 5/9/10:

 The catches have picked up well, so it looks as if the water may be starting to settle down and with luck should clear soon.

               2010  BIG FISH EVENT

 The annual Big Fish event date for  2010 has been set, this will start on Saturday the 30th October and will be be held for two weeks again, as the event was so well attended last year. We will again have 1 ton of large and some extra large trout available. More details  will be posted in October.