Fishing Report

Anglers had to battle some harsh conditions at times last week, with strong winds blowing, quite low temperatures and plenty of the wet stuff. Those that did venture out were rewarded with excellent sport and plenty of fish. On the rare occasions the rain stopped, the wind calmed down and the sun came out it briefly felt like spring had arrived. This didn't last for very long however before another band of wind and rain returned. The fishing has been very consistent again over the last seven days though with anglers blanking rarely, most netting good numbers and a few getting up in the twenties. The fish were often up for taking lots of different patterns on the same day at the same time. A good example of this is the trio of John and Oli Blake and friend Chris Bonner who knows the lake as well as anybody. 

John had 25 with various small flies, subsurface. Oli had16 with mayfly and buzzers and Chris had 17 with a mixture of black and olive buzzers. The black snake took a good number of fish again last week along with damsels. Cats and Montanas. If you fished a buzzer or a nymph such as a dawl bach under an indicator 4 to 6 feet down this was usually a good bet to catch a few or a lure on an intermediate with a slow retrieve. 

The weather this morning has started out very nicely and looks pretty good for the week so hopefully we will see you on the banks.

Pictures of Daniel Moore who had a good day using his own tied lures