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INTERNET FISHING REPORT

It's all kicked off now, stillwater trout fisheries doing well everywhere, especially at end of day. Esthwaite particularly special. Canal doing very well for tench and grass carp. Carp prolific at borwick, ratherheath and gatebeck.

Gatebeck now producing very well…..peg 6 bream to 4lb. Peg 2 tench and bream, peg 8 carp to 8lb. Plenty of carp activity between pegs 8 and 9

Trout fishing outstanding at the moment with bags of fish into double figures. These being caught on Goldhead Cats Whisker, Yellow Fritz, Daiwl Bach and Gold Rib Hares Ear.

Large carp to 33 lb coming out of Jimmys lake. The smaller lakes also producing phenominal sport, carp feeding mid water - try bagging waggler, to draw carp to the feed.

Recent fishing on Esthwaite Water has been exceptional with a rod average of 7.8 fish per angler! The weather is finally beginning to warm up and hatches of buzzers have been extensive with excellent rises and top of the water action, especially on calm overcast days! Matt and Harry Eastham fished with local ghillie Patrick Arnold and enjoyed a bumper days sport landing 50 + rainbows to 5lb+. Fishing from the boats, Matt and Harry employed the natural approach , using patterns such as diawl bachs, crunchers and buzzers. Alistair Beaumont from Lancaster also had a superb days sport landing 35 rainbows to 3lb + from the boats on damsel nymphs fished with a fast figure of eight retrieve. Also fishing nymphs Joe Macgregor from Gateshead took a 20+ fish haul again from the boats. Joe’s best fish tipped the scales at just over 4lb. Season ticket angler Malcolm Robson from Morecambe took 16 fish to 3lb 8oz on a budgie and slime line combination. Bank anglers have also been reporting some really good sport with double figure catches, from all methods , including fly, spin and worm! Fish are now to be found all over the lake with grubhole and swimming pool producing good sport in the north basin and the ticket office, stockie bay, 4 tree bay and the cages all producing in the south basin! The Tackle Shop Invitation Trophy was won by Chris Butler and Vincent Peake from West Coast Angling centre weighing in 2 fish for 4lb 5oz. It is the first time West Coast Angling have won the trophy , so well done lads . Tom Nelson and Bob Swann from Castle Feathers came a close second with 2 fish for 4lb 4oz! Also heat 3 of the Esthwaite Water open pairs was contested recently and 8 anglers weighed in 40 fish for a total weight of 81lb 2oz. The top 2 pairs qualify from each heat and in second place Peter Jones and Steve Chapman weighed in 12 fish for 24lb 2oz including time bonuses and in first place Bob Swann and Colin O’brien weighed in 12 fish for 26lb 12oz including time bonuses.The next heat of this very popular competition will take place on Saturday 17th May. Anyone wishing to fish the competition should contact the fishery for entry forms and rules!

Farleton fishing exceptionally well, with a huge rise last thing at night. Easterly winds do, however, seem to slow it down a bit. Olive klinkhammers, blak shipmans, black spider dries doing well. Small buzzers in black or olive doing well also.

Ghyll Head go with chomper, olive buzzer and goldhead dawsons olive. Black polyrib buzzer also very good at the moment. High Newton fishing well to yellow stalking bug, chomper, beetle and small black dries. High Newton The furthest side from the road seems best on or near the littl e rocky outcrop. Update 17/04/08 Try ripping a coachman wet ,size 14 through the water At Ghyll Head.

Kentmere produscing brownies to olive dries, olive bumble wets and small buzzers

Trout to worm at car park side.

Stainton was a bit like bivvy land on Saturday. Tench are now everywhere, as are the grass carp. Try small maggot ring and a bunch of reds for some spectacuar sport. Hardly worth going down before 7.45pm for the best action.

Carp, tench and bream now coming out on a regular basis. Some nice fish coming out to dog biscuit floated on the top.

….and away we go on another trout season on the kent. Yet again very few fishing the river before stocking, despite a lot of trout still in the river at the end of last year. Fly fishing only until May, but seven pounds a day or twenty quid for a week (that's less than three pounds a day for trout fishing!). Update 15.04.08 stocking has now taken place.

All three lakes fishing really well after a long quiet period. Bank anglers are producing well on mackerel, Pacific Saury, scad and mackerel.

Pike fishing still ok with a best of twenty six pounds a week ago. Tench and carp now on the feed this is the time to fish tewitfield.

Fairly quiet at the moment, occasional good double to lures from northern reaches.

Buzzers in black or olive, chompers in same colours and invicta wets doing well.