12th November 2008
More super catches at Caistron, the sheltered eastern lake fishing exceptionally well. Boats have now been made available on this lake during the winter season. This 8 acre lake is surrounded by trees providing excellent sheltered fishing, even on the windiest of days.
L. Ratcliffe had a superb 4 hour boat session returning 7 fish, the best at 12 1/2lbs and an est. bag of 40lbs+. Pete Jackson continues to be one of the top rods, returning 10 in 4 hours and the following week returning 8, most fish falling to fry imitations.
Congratulations to G Hunter for catching his personal best, an 11lbs rainbow.
Large stocking this week, excellent sport expected for the weekend.
19th October 2008
Fishing continues to be good despite the windy weather. Peter brown had a very productive four hours with 3 fish totalling 19lbs. The best, a superb blue trout of 10lbs, pheasant tail nymph was the killing pattern. Boat partners A Gray and J Bently also had an excellent four hour session returning 12 fish. T Anderson kept four for 14lbs and returned a further 9 on dyle bachs.
On the worm side, Chris Barry had 4 fish for 12 1/2lbs.
The patterns issued below are continuing to produce the goods but be prepared to fish deeper as the water cools down.
On the river, a good week has been had with 11 salmon. Day lets still advailable at £25/day. These must be booked in advance. 07944178045
12th October 2008
Another good week with a rod average of 5 1/2 fish with the best fish caught by T Gibson, 14lb on a fry. Ken Robson took 4 fish totalling 15lb with a further 8 returned on buzzer and P Jackson returned 9 on a sporting ticket. A Davidson returned 10 weighing up to 10lb, caught on damsel.
Recommended fly patterns:
buzzers, black and olive
corixa
sedge
stickleback immitations
28th August 2008
The best fish of the week was a rainbow of 7lb 4 oz taken by Mr D Thompson on a Black Shipmans. The best bag of the week was by Mr Ian Mills of South Shields who had four fish for 15lb 8oz while returning seven.Best bag on the worm lake went to N Lamb of Wallsend who had four fish for 12lb 12oz. A 7lb salmon was also caught on fly at the Bridge Pool on the Caistron Beat near Hepple.
8th August 2008
Another good week this week with the best fish caught by S.Gibson weighing in at 12 1/2lbs using a damsel nymph. The fish took 15 minutes to land!
Other good catches this week include, Alli Tate returned 14 fish in 2 1/2hrs from a boat fishing the deep hole in front of bird hide on the far side of the lake. The successful tactic was a die 5 line and black blobs.
A.Bibby form N.Yorkshire returned 12 trout of up to 10lbs on deep fish buzzers.
John Watson retained 4 rainbows for 12 1/2lbs and returned a further 6 again on blobs.
Recomened fly patterns at the moment are as always buzzers in black and olive, dyle backs, damsels, sedge and deep fish lures. Also stickleback immitations.
On the worm side Ken Anderson had 4 for 13lbs and junior angler Simon Foster caught his first ever rainbows at caistron, 2 fish in a 4hr session totalling 8 1/2lbs.
17th June 2008
A mix of tactics has been the answer in the changeable weather. Slow retrieve is best with intermediate lines.
In spite of the winds large trout have been showing.
Mr Chris Cook took an 8lb 6oz fish on a yellow dancer. Jeff Phillips fishing a Daddy Longlegs had 3 fish for 15.5 lbs.
There was a big stocking on June 14th with lots of fish in the 6/8/15 lb range, rainbows and blues.
Fishing can be tougher when the weather keeps changing.
Big doubles still being stocked and prospects are excellent.
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