Fishing report 31/1/22 – 6/2/22

February 7, 2022

Fishing report 31/1/22 – 6/2/22

39 rods caught 127 fish of which 13 were killed giving a rod average of 3.25

In truth we were probably always going to get a slightly slower week with so much bad windy weather – it can make casting and controlling he equipment a lot harder work than we would like it to be – but understandable too.

As you would expect during times of inclement weather most anglers headed for the upwind and most sheltered areas of the lake and employed more or less the same tactics as in recent weeks with the washing line reigning supreme and a slow intermediate line a great option for trying to get under the surface drift and stay in contact with the flies. as an alternative option the usual array of early season lures such as Humungus, Concrete Bowl, Cats Whisker and Viva fished on intermediate lines will provide a worthy standby option – as always play about with the retrieves and depths until you find something that works.

a nice moment for us all at Toft this week was to see us in ‘Trout and Salmon’ magazine following a visit they’d made to us on possibly the coldest day we have had this winter. It’s great to see Toft portrayed in a wonderful light and we look forward to welcoming them back hopefully in the future to offer more quality content. It was also nice to pick up a couple of copies from the newsagents and sit and read some ‘non digital’ articles for a change.

The coming week should see similar tactics required to tempt Tofts fish and as I write (7/2/22) we’re waiting for another delivery today of stock fish from our suppliers Olsten Trout – no doubt they will be quickly settled in and putting smiles on your faces before we know it. as always you can either purchase your fishing tickets on the day r by clicking the booking button at the top of the page.

See you soon folks!

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!