All Shapes and sizes

All shapes and sizes

With the weather set to break i took a few hours off work and headed to my local club water at knottallow tarn the weather conditions were just about perfect with a light warm wind blowing across the tarn.

The fish were on the top and feeding well on getting to the water i could see lots of black gnats on the water,i caught lots of fish on various size gnats.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Second Stocking

 



This was the scene at the carpark on Tuesday. The road in from Kirkby Moor was blocked with drifts up to 2 metres deep. This part was only just passable. The snow had frozen and with the temperatures not rising much can't see it disappearing quickly.



A sample of the fish. As you can see the tagged fish have gone in. This year the colour is green and 40 fish were introduced at an average weight of 2.9 pound, so look out for some corkers. Please remember to record the colour of the tag if you catch one of these - last year the colour was green. As per last blog one of these has turned up already.



As you can see the tarn was partially frozen.
The water was only just above freezing, but the fish went in OK.
Don't think the conditions will improve much in the near future.
Really cold on the bingies!!
Dave H



Recent Fishing

Have managed two trips so far with reasonable results.
Fished all afternoon on Saturday and never saw or touched a fish until about 5.00pm (would think there were no fish in the place!), when a small rise started in the calm water near the stile bank. Previously tried weighted damsel nymph and corixa with no effect. Just swapped to a size 14 beetle fishing round from the point when I spotted the rise. Missed the first fish I covered - blow off the rust! Managed three fish before I had to go. One of these was a superb green tagged fish that had overwintered - estimated weight about 3pounds. Chuffed to bits. Sorry no photo - wanted to get it back asap.
Tried again Monday afternoon from 3 till 4.30 and managed seven on a mixture of spiders and beetle.
Could see that the fish are still shoaled up and cruising the edges, but still feeding. Other people have had success with a variety of lures - assume they got among these shoaled fish as they appeared to chase anything. Tried a Kate McClaren pulled across the surface and had many chases but never connected. It was then that I spotted that, even they were swirling around, they were actually rising. That's when I swapped to the beetle, dropping it into the area the fish were and just leaving it. Takes were confidant.
Dave H

Stocking for New Season

First net full going in on 26th February

Number 2 - Can you believe it was NOT raining.
Beautiful sunny day.

Number 3 - We didn't actually count the number of nets but we put in 300 fish.

Few days later, partially frozen and still fish rising. Difficult to see,
 but they are just on the edge of the ripple in front of the causeway.

All looks good up there. Tickets are now available. Looking forward to start of season on 15th March.
See you soon, Dave H.

indian summer ?

With the weather more like june than october i had a few hours on knott the tarn was flat calm and there was quite a few fish moving.I fished dry;s and caught a few trout the best being this small fingerling trout my 2nd one caught and as you can see they like a f fly

sat tubing

with th rivers up and un fishable tony riley suggested a afternoon up knott on the float tube, tony had just taken delivery of visions new float tube and he was eager to put it through its paces.


On pulling up into the carpark the weather was just about perfect a light ripple and nice and warm we set up and it wasnt long before we were both into brownies,off the bank dave helm was picking up fish from the bank casting to rising fish all in all a good day




tony ready for the off with the new vision keeper float tube

tony slipping the net under a fighting fit knott brown trout

another brown trout

me just about to land a nice trout

a nice trout (note to myself learn to smile ha ha)


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Choose from brown trout & winter grayling fly fishing lessons, casting tuition & fly fishing courses, on a variety of rivers and & stillwaters throughout the Lake District, Ulverston and Cumbria.

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tuesday 03/07/2012

After finishing work i decided to have a few hours fishing up knott the weather was overcast with a few showers after 2 1/2 hours i had caught 5 trout casting to rising fish i caught them on a shipmans buzzer and a olive f fly.Dave helm was also on knott and adopted the same tactics of covering rising fish with good effect catching several fish.

Just a reminder dont miss the open day on the 14th july starting 10 o'clock (see events page on website) come along bring someone who has never fished before and have a go, the fishing is free plus there is free tea,coffee and food