Bank Holiday Bonanza

With the weather conditions perfect i headed up knott,after looking at the catch return sheet i could see the rod average is still nice and high and just about everyone is catching fish.

I wandered round the tarn and observed plenty of fish feeding i headed towards the causeway and opted for a Shipmans Buzzer (size 14 +16) and casting to the rising fish i managed to connect with  a few,after the rises stopped a put on a klink hammer in the same sizes and continued to catch.

All the fish were in excellent condition and fought hard if you have not been up for a while do your self a favour and have a trip up the place is on top form and full of fish.

See below for a selection of fish i caught all returned to be caught another day,just click on the image to see a full scale picture

Alan

Knottallow Tarn Open Day

Don't forget the Ulverston Angling Open Day on Knottallow Tarn
                                 SUNDAY 13th JUNE
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Chasing the ripple

With the temperature threatening to get into the low 20 degrees I headed up Knott at 8.30 thinking I would have the place to myself.Dropping onto Knott 4 other anglers had the same idea as me.I had a quick chat with Albert (pettigrew) and after a brief chat we both set out on our separate ways.

The tarn was manly flat calm but now and again we would get a nice ripple on the water heading for the ripple Albert caught steadily.I headed into the small pond to fish the ripple as well and caught one and pricked a few all on a red muddler hopper (see picture) or you could get them using the heave and leave method ( casting a hopper out and let it drift round in the wind and wait for a take.One thing i noticed the fish are right in the side and as you can see the picture on the right albert was standing a good 5 yards from the water and casting most if not all of his fly onto the grass so it was only his tipett and fly that was in the water.

Alan Plevey

Catch Returns

Hi all,
Been on hols so missed a few weeks with the returns.
Looks like I have also been missing some good fishing.
Over the last 3 weeks the rod average has been about 3 and nil returns less than a quarter of those fishing so things are looking up. Fishing times are still varied with no particular time of day being better than another, but as the days lengthen the fishing should shift to early mornings and late evenings.
Successful flies vary a lot, but mostly buzzer imitations like spiders, shipmans and suspenders. The old favourite beetle has been doing well. Black gnats should still be around but the Hawthorns should be just about finished. Unfortunately we don't get many olives, but again these should be about over. There also seeems to be a lot of daddies, so try a hopper, but watch out for smash takes.
We have blocked off the causeway to try to keep the water level up in the big pond as we still have a leak in the dam and with some decent weather forecast this seemed the best plan. There are plenty of fish in both sides.
Dave the treasurer

A Quick Visit - One hour and ten minutes for three Brown Trout

I ventured up as it was the first warm day for weeks and thought I'd see if there was anything going on at last knockings. As I set up at 8pm a few anglers were on the tarn including Austin Robbie who'd already had four on a hotspot spider. Fish were starting to browse the rippled surface showing their dorsal and tail fins and swirling at the surface.

Small white winged insects were hatching off the water which I initially took to be Caenis. When one landed on me I took a closer look to see it seemed like an 'olive' bodied midge and I guessed a size 16 olive shipmans buzzer would do the trick. I was pleased to take a fish on second chuck. After taking a second, Austin changed to the same Olive Shipmans and took two more himself.

 

 

 After I'd caught a third the hatch seemed to finish and I went home happy!
 
Greg (UAA Webmaster)

Don't forget the Ulverston Angling Open Day on Knottallow Tarn
                                 SUNDAY 13th JUNE
                    Follow this link to the UAA Events on our web site for more details

flying visit

I decided to have a few hours up knott sunday night got there just before 6 to be met by a cold blustery wind,when the wind dropped fish could be seen topping regulally.On went a small spider pattern and after about a hour of searching out the water a lovely brown trout came to the net.

After 1 1/2 hours i decided to call it a night as i was walked off Austin Robbie and his fishing mate had just just arrived.Checking the catch returns a few days later i noticed  Austin caught 8 and his mate had caught 4 all on spider patterns (no doubt one of austins legendary hotspots!!!!!)


Alan