At Ringstead Grange over the last couple of weeks there has been a total of 146 visitors who between them have landed a total of 437 fish.
The best of these were fish of 8lb 8oz to john Murray of Rushden,
5lb 2oz to Ellis Fox of Kettering and 5lb
8oz to Malcolm Hazel of Northampton.
Over 200 brownies were stocked last thursday and that is on top of the twice weekly stocking of rainbows.
There have been some excellent hatches of Sedges,Daddies and Buzzers lately and it has made for some great sport near to the surface.
The best areas have been Lodge Bank and Willow Bay for the bank angler and the Deep water and Off the Sand Banks for the boats.
The favourite patterns have been,Fritz Damsels,Silver Invicta,Black Hopper and Soldier Palmer whilst the best dries have been sedges,Daddies and grey duster to match the hatches.
At Draycote Water last week Mr Alan Anthony a Coventry boat angler caught the week's best brown at 8lbs 6ozs to a Silver and Green Tube Fly near to the Valve Tower. Leamington Spa regular Mr Bob Askew also took a nice brown at 5lbs 00ozs from Toft Bay.
Mr Derek Griggs of Leicester caught the 7lbs 3ozs rainbow. Osprey FF Mr D Williams took a 6lbs 8ozs and Mr Malcom Pearce of Bedworth banked a six pounder from the Cornfield.
Best eight fish limit was 27lbs 8ozs to Mr Bernard Lewis of Dyffryn FFC, South Wales. Other good limits from the boats include 27lbs 00ozs to Mr P Thompson of Nottingham, 25lbs 6ozs to Mr Tom Jones of Coventry, 23lbs 11ozs to Mr John Hoskins of Bromsgrove, 23lbs 8ozs to Mr Fred Broady of Gloucester and 23lbs 4ozs to Mr Keith Harding of Birmingham.
Top of the five fish limits was 21lbs 4ozs to Cheshire boat angler Mr John Jones, Mr Ray Bird of Nuneaton weighed in 20lbs 10ozs and Mr Ray Higton of Nottingham had five for 20lbs 8ozs.
It is quite remarkable how the bank continues to fish well at this time of year and Mr Malc Dawson of Leicester took seven well conditioned fish weighing 23lbs 10ozs to a Diawl Bach at the Tower Paddock. Other good bank catches went to Mr Nigel Walton of Coventry with five for 17lbs 6ozs and Mr Stan Edinburgh of Birmingham took five for 16lbs 2ozs on a Buzzer.
Diawl Bach, Hares Ear, Cruncher, Cormorant, Zonka Hot Tail and Gold Head Damsel all doing well plus a few on Dry Fly.
Enquiries to : Fishing Lodge, Draycote Water, Kites Hardwick, Rugby. CV23 8AB
Telephone : 01788 - 812018 Fax : 01788 - 815711
Browns Caught :- 3 Fish
Total Weight :- 15lbs 14ozs
Average Weight :- 5lbs 4ozs
Largest Fish :- 8lbs 6ozs
Rainbows Caught:- 1295 fish
Total Weight :- 3399lbs 10ozs
Average Weight :- 2lbs 10ozs
Largest fish:- 7lbs 3ozs
No of Visitors : 377 Anglers
Total Catch : 1298 fish
Average Catch per Angler Visit : 3.44 Fish
The best Rainbow of the week at Rutland water was taken by Ray Simpson fishing in the Major Clubs Group 2 match last Sunday. Ray's fish weighed 5lb 1¼oz. With rising temperatures fishing has still been intense with the main basin and Inmans Spinney, Yellowstone and Hambleton wood seeing the best of the sport. Plenty of limits continue to be taken with 8 fish bag limits weighing over 20lb. Nymphs and dries are still taking fish, but with fish gathering around the aerators sinking lines (various) with mini lures and nymph combinations are working well.
Boat anglers had the best of the sport. However the Normanton and dam area on Friday night saw some good fish taken on dries with Oakham season ticket holder Peter de Kremer taking four fish averaging 3½lb with Peter's preferred method of dry fly reaping its reward.
Grafham Water has continued to fish well this week with the majority of anglers catching their trout in the top two feet of the water on small nymphs, blobs and olive hoppers fished just below the surface.
Bank anglers have had some good sport this week mainly by fishing the bowl of the dam and the G buoy area on floating lines with diawl bachs, crunchers, pheasant tail nymphs and olive hoppers fished slowly just below the surface.
Boat anglers have had the best of the sport this week by fishing floating or sink tip lines with diawl bachs, crunchers, pheasant tail nymphs, blobs and olive hoppers once again just below the surface with a slow retrieve. The best boat areas this week have been dam tower, G,H,I,X buoys and drifts through the middle of the reservoir.
The biggest bag of the week was caught by Milton Keynes angler and birthday boy John Timophy. John caught eight trout weighing 22lb 10oz by fishing a floating line with diawl bachs and olive hoppers fished slowly in the top of the water.
At Pitsford Water last week Dave Rowe from Northampton took the best rainbow this week at 4lb 2oz. He fished the bank on a half day ticket also taking a brown of 2lb.
Chris Whitford of Watford took 8 fish last week on a boat all on a diawl bach. 'Thanks for an amazing day - all my fish were like bars of silver' Said Chris when he returned to the pontoon.
Banks are still fishable with some areas better than others like the Gorse bank and the Cliffs. The Pines continues to be the hot spot with fish feeding on a diet of green bloodworm down deep. Bank anglers are preferring floating lines and non weighted lures or large dry flies, with evenings being the best time to fish especially when its hot.
Best pattern for boat anglers is a small weighted lure fished slow on a floating line cast to the bank and pulled away.
At Ravensthorpe Resevoir last week Mick Griffin a season ticket holder and local angler had a great day with us catching about 30 fish on cruncher type nymph on a floating line near the island.
Prolific amounts of damsel are showing and the fish are gorging on them – both nymph and spent adults. Dry fly tactics have accounted for plenty of hard fighting rainbows from 2lb up to 7lb this week.
The best boat tactic is drifting using dries or the washing line method
