Arthur Cove Memorial Bank Competition I received this notice via email today and I thought that there may be some on here interested in attending:

My name is dave oates , i am organising a memorial match for the late Arthur Cove.
I thought i would let your association know at this early stage. the date is going to be saturday may 15th at Eyebrook.
I have started to get a good prize list going to encourage people to attend. the angling magazines are being very supportive as is Andy Miller at Eyebrook.
I have got Charles Jardine saying he will attend ( not sure whether he will fish) however I know Arthur thought a lot of the Leicester fly fishers which is why i wanted to let you know early. hope some of you can attend.

all the best , dave oates

ps. the whole point is we would like to get a memorial bench put up at eyebrook, with any excess money going to england youth fishing aasoc. and rainbow childrens hospice.
tickets will be £30 adult, £26 oap, £21 junior, that is putting £11 on top of Eyebrook ticket prices.
first prize is a box of Arthurs own flies and a rod. i have about 12 prizes at moment. just been given a £85 Flylogic reel!
sportfish £50 voucher, a boat and two rods on eyebrook. etc


Probably best to contact Eyebrook in the first instance or I can pass on an email address for Dave Oates via PM if requested. __________________
Tight lines
Brian
Leicestershire Fly Fishing Association

Seighford Lakes Week ending 21st Feburary 2010

Trout fishing   With weather still failing to warm during the past week, it hasn't seemed to have affected the fishing here at Seighford. With frosts almost every night we have been busy every morning clearing ice so anglers are able to fish. The aerator in the Swan Neck Pool has had two advantages this week, not only is is preventing ice forming on the lodge end of the pool, but it is also attracting trout into that area of the lake. The pegs nearest to the lodge have produced a lot of sport this week. Derbyshire based angler Renso Delrossi had the best bag of the week with 10 trout up to 7lb. Renso caught all his fish out of the Swan Neck Pool on gold headed Cruncher on a floating line. Best Fish of the week went to Gary Owen, who landed a 11lb 10oz specimen off the Railway Pool.

Gary took the fish after fishing for only 15 minutes, he tempted this monster on static Bloodworm set at 5 foot. He also added a further 8 fish to his days fishing.

  Coarse Fishing   Finally some Carp have been caught out of the Old Pool this week. Peg 2 chucked up half a dozen Carp on Friday. The fish were taken on double red maggot on a size 16 hook. Alot of fish have been showing up in the reeds and out on the barr that runs off the island in the middle of the pool. Method feeders and pole have been the best tactics this week, feeding very little seems to have been the way forward this week. THE OLD POOL WILL BE CLOSED ON MARCH 6TH 2010, DUE TO A CLUB BOOKING! The Horseshoe Pool will still be available for fishing.   A stocking of 6,000 Roach have gone into the Horseshoe Pool, the fish range from 2" up to 8". This is sure to keep bites coming during these cold months. We do welcome clubs to our waters, bookings can be arranged over the phone. To book in ring us on the lodge phone on 01785 28296  

Seighford Lakes PRESS RELEASE (Week ending 14/02/2010)

Trout Fishing   With the cold weather still refusing to go away, good fishing has took place all week. Another stocking of fish went into both lakes on Friday. Fish up to around the 10lb mark were dropped in both lakes. Both lakes were cleared of ice on Saturday morning, and fished well from the off. Kevin Barley started on the Railway Pool, he took a few fish there on a white and green lure. He then ventured back to the Swan Neck Pool and that's where the real sport began. He took 8 fish there in quick succession. Kevin finished the day on 8 Trout. Another good bag of the day was Chris Ector who hooked and landed 11 fish over both lakes ,Chris caught on a variety of lures using a floating line with a 15 foot leader. With the aerators kept on over night, the lakes were ice free on the Sunday. With the slightly milder weather on the Sunday morning, action started very quickly. Barry Love made a return to Seighford to have another go and his trip paid off with a total of 9 fish to 6lb. Best fish went to Darren Doody who landed a 9lb 8oz Rainbow after a 15 minute battle. Darren took the fish on a Cats Whisker using a floating line and slow retrieve.

  Coarse fishing

  Good bags of silver fish have come out over the past week. Red and white maggot being the bait of the week. The water has colored up to perfection and is just waiting for some warm weather to help get the Carp feeding. Roger Abnett enjoyed a good session on the Old pool, it was his first outing in 7 years and he finished his day in style, he landed a 3lb 4oz Perch smashing his previous personal best. Roger caught silverfish steadily throughout the day using double squatt on Peg 2. A stocking of 6,000 Roach have gone into the Horseshoe Pool, the fish range from 2" up to 8". This is sure to keep bites coming during these cold months. We do welcome clubs to our waters, bookings can be arranged over the phone. To book in ring us on the lodge phone on 01785 282967.   Picture- Roger Abnett's 3lb 4oz Perch

Tal y llyn fishery report

2nd February 2010

The season starts on 1st of april and should be very interesting with a lot of over wintered fish to be seen feeding all over the lake on the milder days, so despite the snow and ice and frost of late prospects are good. The largest recorded brown of last season was an impressive fish of 10lb 12oz caught by mr Ian Sandford ,this took an olive goldhead  by the mouth of the pentre steam. The feeder steams are always worth a cast or two with fresh oxygenated water trickling into the lake. By the end of last season a total of 32 seatrout were recorded, the best of these was 6lb caught by mr Graham Bell who also doubles up as a part time ghillie at tal y llyn. in fact graham caught the last fish of the season a superb fish of 3lb 14oz  which took a daddy long legs whilst drifting along the cae drift. Early season tactics range from slow to medium sinking lines armed with a black lure or olive gold head damsel nymph on the point along with a bibio ,zulu,dabbler or similar wet fly on the cast , these then should be fished slowly and then dabbled just before lifting off. But on a mild day dont ignore the olives which will start to appear in the warmer weather and flies such as greenwells glory ,olive f fly  shoukld be effective. boats should try long drifts along rectory down to pentre steam, one tree bay ,cae drift ,outer cairn drift and from the jetty down to agony point.   tight lines    Phil wood

Seighford Lakes PRESS RELEASE 24th jan 2010

Trout fishing   Finally the lakes have thawed out after 5 weeks. We put a stocking of trout into both lakes on the 22nd of January. Some bonus lumps went in up to 15lb-16lb, again our stocking policy is nothing below 3lb. Best fish of the week was local angler 'Jock' who took a 13lb 9oz Rainbow out of the Railway pool, the fish was landed after a 20 minute battle on a floating line, Jock temped the fish using a black and green lure. Sunday 24th another big fish came out to Craig Scott. The Stone based angler landed a cracking Rainbow of 11lb 7oz using a white guinea on a floating line, the fish came out half way up on the Swan neck Pool. Best bag of fish this week  was19 fish taken by Roy Westwood, Roy caught all his fish from the Railway Pool, using an intermediate line and a black and green lure. His fishing partner Barry Love was just behind him with 18 fish. Barry used the same method.   A club match took place on the same day. 15 anglers fished the match and fish were caught from the start. Not one angler blanked and 81 fish were caught. Best bag went to Derek Howard from Crewe who won the match with a combined weight of 19lb 9oz for four fish. Derek finished the day with 18 fish,he took all his fish on black and green lures.   1st Derek Howard       19lb 9oz   (4 fish) Returned 14 2ND Ron Ayres           18lb 7oz   (4 fish) Returned 5 3rd James Foster       17lb 12oz (4 fish) Returned 0   Flies that are working this week are Black and Green lures, orange fritz and static buzzers underneath a site indicator.

  Coarse Fishing

  With the lakes froze over for 5 weeks, we haven't had many coarse anglers on. Those who have braved the conditions have been rewarded with some decent mixed bags of fish. Pellet and maggot have been the favored baits this week. Another stocking of 1500 Perch went in last week, just to keep bites coming when the carp aren't feeding. The Perch vary in size from 2" up to 1lb. We do welcome clubs to our waters, bookings can be arranged over the phone. To book in ring us on the lodge phone on 01785 282967.

  Hope to see you soon. Tight lines Phil Dixon

22 Dcember 2009

Rob Edmunds with a

6lb 2oz Rutland Brown; caught on a White & Silver Hummungus at Cripple Creek on a floating line yesterday…..I also had 2 rainbows of around 2lb.

Gailey trout fishery.

Week ending 22nd November 2009

Mr Arnold from Edgbaston Birmingham has certainly hit the jackpot with his Pike fishing at Gailey Trout Fishery, on two visits he landed and returned no less than 6 superb condition Pike all caught on live trout, the best being the impressive pike attached (Pike 28lb) So impressed with the fishing he immediately purchased a full season ticket .

pike 28lbs

pike 18lbs

pike 17lbs