Easter Sunday

Slightly colder day than yesterday, the wind has picked up a little. This doesn't effect the fishing at all still good for casting but it just makes it a little colder on the hands and face.
Still a few fish moving around but the majority are in the deep.
Not much ice around this morning so things are improving on that front at least. Little lake still frozen solid.

Easter Saturday

Very pleasant day today the wind has died down making it warmer in the sunshine. Rise unexpectedly rising today, obviously the recently stocked fish on the hunt for trout pellets. Most of the pontoons and all of the embankment free of ice. Water still cold!!!

The cold continues.....

In spite of stocking yesterday, conditions are still making things difficult. At least half the lake was frozen this morning at 8.00am but steady sunshine and the wind action has got rid of a lot of it, just the very top corner still with bits of ice around. Extremely cold wind but actually quite nice when its stops blowing.
The newly stocked fish has not had any real effect up to now but may still do over the next few days if this sun continues to shine and the temperatures rise.

Fish Stocked

Some stunning fish stocked today, hopefully they will stir up the "resident" population.

The lake was partially iced over this morning but still lots of places to fish from, 6 of the 7 pontoons are clear. Bit more sunny weather forecast over the Easter holidays with plus temperatures. It will STILL be sinking lines for the foreseeable future as it will take a while for the water to reach a pleasant temp for the fish to move and feed freely.

Fish stocking

Winter or no Winter life goes on.
It's been difficult conditions for fishing now for a couple of weeks - prolonged period of very cold water making the fish inactive and very deep.  So we are going to stir things up a little by stocking more fish.  Hopefully this will have the effect of "waking up" the resident fish with the extra competition for food but they will still be deep.
So a few hundred fish are on order to be delivered in 2 batches one this week and one after Easter.

So the fishery has done it's bit all you have to do is come along and catch them....!!

Monday 25th March 2013

We are unfortunately still in the grips of winter as is everyone else. There has been a little bit of a thaw but if the forecasters are correct it may take a couple of days to be totally free of the snow and ice.

Sunday 24th March 2013

Good Morning from a very bleak fishery. There has been significant snowfall here as with the rest of the country. The approach roads are clear from the Horwich direction and there is access to and from the car park. The coarse lake is however frozen but the main lake remains ice free.  It is however very snowy and icy around the lake and in parts treacherous.
Looking forward to the spring/summer thaw if we actually do get one this year. 

Morning All, my first attempt at an entry on the blog.
Lovely sunny morning at present a;though there is a cold wind from the East. Thin layer of ice on the coarse pond when I arrived so it has again been cold overnight. Snow forecast for tomorrow fingers crossed the weather forecasters are wrong again !

Tuesday 19th March

Weather a little more pleasant as we have not seen any of the forecasted snow etc ---- up to now!!
The water temps is still very very low. There was some ice on the lake this morning and temperature readings are +3C on the bottom and 0C at the surface.
The fish are still very static almost in hibernation and although the fishery does not need stocking for numbers of fish, I have ordered some more to be delivered.
When you introduce new fish it can liven up the residents into feeding more but ultimately, we need warmer water!

I will be doing a Tenkara presentation and discussion at the Bolton Fly Tyers meeting at the Beehive Hotel, Chorley New Road, Horwich this evening at 7.30pm all are welcome.
It is a good opportunity to find out more about the exciting method or river fishing.

St Patrick's Day

On a day when you want it to be bright and green we get wet and white!!
Quite a layer of snow here first thing - most of it has melted now fortunately but a bit of a surprise earlier.
As it warms up a little (proportionately!) some fish are moving around a bit at the surface but in effect nothing has changed in terms of the required tactics.
Had a double handed lesson this morning and we managed to get a few follows to the yellow wool being used - but as soon as you put a hook on.....?

Forecast is for warmer but wetter next week we'll see...!