Fishing Report on 3rd June 2025
Surprisingly, the water clarity of our Club Lake is incredibly gin clear! After our last report, the water clarity was looking quite bleak and murkier by the day. However, to everyone’s surprise, the Lake has suddenly improved so much that presently it is a joy to fish buzzers and other small, natural dry or wet flies. One of our members Stuart Marshall had the excitement of catching on the same day and swim, two big trout (10lbs and 7lbs respectively), one after the other on buzzers. He was a very happy man!
The productive swims have been on the banks that are situated on the West, Southwest (bay by near the Haul Road), South and Northwest. It is advisable to make sure your leaders are long and strong enough (at least the breaking strain of about 7lbs). There have been many stories by fellow members, of tippets being broken off by aggressive takes! As for lines, some have favoured the intermediate flyline, while others the floating line with or without a sink tip. In any case, all these lines seemed to be just as effective at producing catches.
There has been a total of 218 visits in the last 3 weeks, producing a catch of 454 fish, of which 176 were returned. To date, this makes the total season’s catch to be 2,970, of which the total returned being 934.
As for those who have caught “the big ones”, special mention has to go to Stuart Marshall for catching 3 of them (10lbs being the biggest), A. Gibb with 1, A. Griggs with 1 and Roger/Pat Gibbons with 1. Congratulations to all!
Finally, the usual Summer coarse fishing will begin on Sunday, 15th June till it ends on Saturday, 13th September 2025. Please remember that only NFC members who have been in the membership for at least 2 years, are eligible with their partners or junior family members to take part in this.
Tight lines!
Lynne
