April 27th – May 3rd

146 anglers caught 615 fish of which 399 were returned.

Best Fish
10lb 2oz Bob Walmsley, Desborough, black buzzer
9lb 10oz Matt Tuck, Huntingdon, black buzzer, boat
9lb 1oz Tim Wadwell, Northampton, red blob
8lb 0oz Finbarr McSweeney, Rushden, black spider
7lb 5oz Keith Fairey, Duston, orange lure, boat
6lb 11oz John Dixon, Banbury, red cruncher, boat
6lb 8oz Mike Bownes, Wilsthorpe, black buzzer
6lb 0oz Mr Wallace, boat
5lb 14oz Nick Fletcher, Leicester, orange hopper, boat

Brown
4lb 8oz Will Childs, Lowick, shuttlecock cdc, boat

Best Areas
Bank – brookside, east arm, coarse bank, gravel bar
Boat – all areas of the lake producing fish

Best Patterns
black or olive buzzer, red diawl bach, cruncher, small damsel, hopper boobies, shipmans, cdc buzzers.

The bank fishing has certainly improved now the wind is back to a normal SW direction. Plenty of rising fish are in range of the bank during the day and especially the evening.
Fish continue to feed heavily on buzzers of all sizes. Finally there is some consistent dry fly sport. Otherwise a washing line with a hopper booby on the point and crunchers/diawl bachs on the dropper.
Boat anglers are taking good bags of fish all over the lake. Deep buzzers working well in bright conditions but you need to be prepared to follow the fish to the surface when conditions allow.

Next Stocking
May 4th, 8th

This Sunday May 10th
Elinor will be holding the Tommy Wood Memorial Trophy
Roving bank match using buzzer imitations on a floating line only. 9am – 4pm Free entry. All money raised by the raffle will go to Sue Ryder, Thorpe Hall Hospice.

Sunday May 31st
Elinor will hold a heat of the popular Scierra Pairs boat competition.
You get to fish with your partner and qualifiers will go through to fish the final at Rutland.
Full details at http://www.scierrapairs.co.uk