Fishing report 10-16 January 2022

January 19, 2022

Fishing report 10-16 January 2022

72 rods caught a total of 299 trout for a decent rod average of 4.15

As is often the case early in the season a few fish still remain pretty tightly shoaled. as in keeping with recent years they tend to head upwind at this time of year – find a fish and you’ll usually find plenty. A mixture of tactics have scored over the last week with floating lines and washing line tactics scoring particularly well with patterns such as Organza shorty and hulk (ask Andy!), Diawl Bach, slim Hares Ear and Tequila Foam Arsed Blob all taking fish. For those preferring an alternative method intermediate lines with long tailed Damsels or Cats Whisker type lures as well as Snakes have all caught fish, sometimes a very mobile pattern can provoke an instant response.

Martin Rowson and Neil Deakin took to a boat on Sunday to explore some of Tofts deeper water, they boated 20 between them finding fish deeper down on Di-5 lines and booby patterns – they also had lots of other pulls and could have quite easily had a lot more fish if they had been sticking, its definitely worth taking to a boat to explore areas that bank anglers cant reach.

Monday/Tuesday next week will see another stocking of fish from Olsten Trout as we look to keep well topped up heading into the spring when the buzzer fishing should really get underway. Now is also the time to think about getting prepared in time for some of the best fishing of the year – Are your lines in good condition? Do you need a casting tune up? Do you need to stock up on some of our favorite Toft fly patterns to get you amongst the fish? We can help with all of this! To book a lesson or for general enquiries or advice please call Andy in the fishing lodge on 01673 878453.

Fishing Report and News 9/5/22 – 15/5/22

Some heavy rain in the middle of last week kept a few anglers away dashing our hopes of an attendance similar to the previous week – that said we still enjoyed a decent steady turnout, we just love you to take full advantage whilst the fishing is so good…………………….

Fishing Report and News 2/5/22 – 8/5/22

The last week made it in to our top 3 attendances of the season as anglers took advantage of the recent great fishing weather and enjoyed Toft during ‘primetime’.

In keeping with the general trend recently, imitative tactics reigned supreme again with a mixture of nymph and dry fly tactics accounting for probably 90% of the fish caught. Favourite patterns included both olive and black buzzers, crunchers, diawl bach, hares ear, shipmans, shuttlecocks and daddies. Its been great to see that our fish are really piling the weight on with the masses of natural food available, many anglers have reported catching several fine quality fish in the……….

Fishing report and News 25/4/22 – 01/5/22

98 rods caught 739 trout for a rod average of 7.54

A real bumper week again!

As we slip into May the season is well and truly in full swing and the fish obliging on the whole to the imitative approach employed by most of the anglers. Those that have fared best seemed to be the ones that could spot when to change depths, during brighter spells dropping deeper seemed to be a decent way to keep catching a few fish……..

Fishing Report and News 18/4/22 – 24/4/22

123 Anglers caught 360 fish for a rod average of 2.92

A week started with some promise and good settled weather soon turned abit less consistent and tested the resolve of anglers to the limit. A stiff north easterly breeze and bright sunshine for the second half of the week did little to maintain last weeks incredible rod average and those that fished from boat whilst slightly less comfortable probably enjoyed the better sport…………….

Fishing Report and News 11/4/22 – 17/4/22

116 anglers caught 794 trout for a rod average of 6.84

Toft keeps giving at the moment and our excellent stock of fish have proved to be very cooperative indeed. At the risk of sounding like a broken record nothing much has changed in the way of tactics – it’s the time of year to generally adopt an imitative type of approach……………………………

Fishing Report and News 4/4/22-10/4/22

75 anglers caught 493 trout (67 killed) for a rod average of 6.57

Windy weather made for a slightly quieter week than we would have liked, the fishing however remained fabulous as Tofts trout gorged on the massive profusion of buzzers throughout the levels of the water column. Both black and olive buzzer imitations played a big part in catches and as lots of quality trout made their way to the landing nets of our anglers.

We spooned several fish this week to help us to ‘match the hatch’ and you can see from the pictures that they were certainly feeding very well indeed – the majority of the sport has been with floating lines and imitative types of flies – the real ‘cream’ of the seasons fishing – its literally buzzer soup out there!