Fishing Report

The fishing has been excellent this week unsurprisingly after the restock. However, the first part of the week was near impossible to fly fish and only the truly hardy had a go. Mark and Olly Jary fished in the worst of this weeks weather and they still managed double figures each, so well done to them. Conditions improved later in the week bringing more anglers to the banks. Many of them catching high double figures with some notables being Gordon Curtis with 23, his personal best at Blackdyke on a black snake. Graham shepherd with 20 on a yellow dancer and Martin Smith with a staggering 36 also mostly on dancers.

Very few anglers left the lake without netting fish this week and because of the extreme changes in weather the flies the fish were taking varied. Large and small lures , buzzers, nymphs and dries off the top or just below -all working at some point. Let's hope we get some more consistent conditions this week and the fishing continues to be top notch. Picture: Phil Nicholas .