DATE: Monday March 31st
REPORT AUTHOR Ben
NOTABLE CATCH: 10+ Ian Gaskell and Tony Plant
NOTABLE BAG: 5 fish for lbs
BEST RAINBOW: 6lbs 6oz for Paul Ashcroft
BEST BLUE: 2lbs for John Duff and Ron Melling
BANK ROD AV: 3.63 fish per angler
BOAT ROD AV: 4.75 fish per angler
Sport: It was a funny day today, it mild with an easterly wind and although it threatened to rain it never actually materialised. In the calm areas buzzers were hatching off and trout were rising for them but few anglers got buzzers to work well.
Tony Plant was an exception who caught six fish on a skinny olive buzzer, nothing on black though, and he caught several more on a green pea. Ian Gaskell caught all but one of his fish on a green pea and his boat partner Bob Fitzpatrick lost five more on the same pattern. Tony, Ian and Bob caught their fish on drifting boats from Gull Island, Currys and The Northern Shallows. Also out on a boat fishing a half day was Ron Melling he caught 6 trout to 3lbs from the Willows on cats whisker fished on a midge tip.
Billy Rennit and Lee Millroe had nine trout to their boat from the Causeway and down in Hollins, they caught on a mixture of lures and diawl bachs.
On the shore you didn’t need to go far, the wind has been blowing into Hollins Bay for a few days now and there are a lot of fish in there. Buzzers were hatching off and bank anglers were casting at rising fish. John Duff has three and lost three in just two hours of fishing, and Terry Overy took six fish on a copper John from the same area. The best catch how ever came from Bell Point and fell to Gary Graham. Gary took nine trout on a floating line and a gold headed cats. The best fish of the day was caught by Paul Ashcroft. He caught it on a bloodworm at Two trees and it tipped the scales to 6lbs 8oz. (pictured below) The rod average on the bank today was pretty good as all bar one angler were on half day tickets. Tight Lines Ben