October 19th – 25th

119 anglers caught 344 fish of which 252 were returned.

Best Fish
5lb 2oz Mick Moseley, Rushton, boat
4lb 6oz Peter Wright, Dunstable, grhe
4lb 0oz Dave Sparrow, Aldwincle, boat

Brown
4lb 4oz Pete Welch, Boston, s12 black buzzer

During the first couple of weeks of October when I didn’t send out a fishing report there were some nice fish caught, especially browns:
Rainbow
5lb 5oz Mal Broughton, Grantham, white/green lure, boat
4lb 8oz Danny Tolton, Kettering, red buzzer
Brown
5lb 14oz David Cairns, Newmarket, black lure, boat
5lb 3oz Mike Bownes, Wilsthorpe, goldhead hares ear
5lb 2oz Thomas Finney, Sandy, green cruncher, boat
5lb 0oz Pete Johnson, Wellingborough, montana

Best Areas
Bank – dam, brookside, east arm, boat bay
Boat – east arm, lodge end, pylon point

Best Patterns
white/green or black/green lures, red or pink apps, grhe, black buzzer, red diawl bach, cruncher.

Water clarity at Elinor is superb and the fish are in great condition. As well as hard fighting stock rainbows there are some lovely grown on brown trout being caught.
The lower water temperature has seen bank anglers doing as well as boat anglers on most days.
A variety of methods are working:
Floater/slow intermediate with mini lure on the point and nymphs on droppers.
Washing line with a damsel booby and small buzzers/diawl bach/cruncher on droppers.
Indicator with buzzers.
On calmer days and evenings dries such as black hopper or black/brown bob’s bits.
Most fish are being taken in the top two foot.

Now the clocks have changed, afternoon tickets are available from Midday.

Next Stocking
October 29th

The Dave Hughes Memorial Fur & Feather is on Sunday November 8th
9am – 3pm.
Boats are fully booked but bank entries still available.
Cost is £25 which includes fishing fees (£5 for season ticket holders).
Proceeds from the raffle will be split between Air Ambulance and The British Heart Foundation.
Please bring a small item so that everyone goes home with a prize.