Records:- Rainbow 22lbs 12oz, Brown 16lb 12oz, Blue 12lbs 6oz

Darren Booth with a monster Stocks rainbow of 20lbs 8oz

                                    Jack Gregson with his 21lb Rainbow

Stocks Harriers Fulling Mill 1st place

Ken Whiteside with his new record brownie of 16lbs 12oz

Bill Orrell from Chipping with his 15lb 11oz Brownie

Eric Glaister from Carlisle with a NEW FISHERY RECORD 22lbs 12oz

Ian Greenwood with a beautiful 12lb 8oz Stocks brownie

Roy Dickenson 17lb 10oz Rainbow

Peter Andrew's with his Vision GT Reel

Alan Owen with his 13lb overwintered rainbow

Derick Moore (center) won the Duncan Hesketh Trophy last year for the best brown of the season. Today he broke the fishery record with a stunning 15lb 13oz brownie.

Andy Barker 10lb 8oz overwintered Rainbow.

Len Riding 10lb 2oz rainbow.

              Season starts Saturday 23rd of February 2008. Open daily 8.00am to dusk.

STOCKS RESERVOIR 2008

The new season is almost upon us and the prospects for Stocks look fantastic. Never before have we had such a good size range of rainbows, browns and blues. In addition to the usual quality 2-4lb trout and the famous Stocks doubles we will be introducing many more 4-7lb fish. We have found that trout in this size range possess a superior combination of speed, strength and stamina, which makes them the perfect quarry for fly fishing. The pre-season stocking of 4000 trout will be spread around the water so many areas will fish well from the first day on February 23rd. The stocking areas are shown on the Hotspots map.

BELTING BROWNIES
This years brown trout are the best I have ever seen, they are very vigorous, beautifully marked and well finned. We have many more than in previous seasons plus record breaking specimens. 2008 will be remembered for its colossal and quality browns!

PRIZE TAGGED TROUT
Throughout the 2008 season there will be a number prize tagged trout released into the reservoir. Any tagged trout caught must be taken and brought to the fishing lodge in order to claim the bounty. To get the season off to a flying start we have already stocked 10 of these prize fish.

Tight Lines. Ben Dobson

Also I would like to draw your attention to the Northern fly fishing its good place to stocks up for the season ahead!

NORTH of ENGLAND
FLY FISHING SHOW
This 7th event is to be held on

SUNDAY 3rd FEBRUARY 2008
At
NISSAN SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB WASHINGTON ROAD,
SUNDERLAND. SR5 3NS
inside the Nissan car plant itself, free parking
TIME: 10:00am until 3:00pm

Admission:
Adults [only] £3.00
Juniors Free [under 16]

This is a unique occasion for Trout and Salmon anglers in the North East region to have the opportunity to view, try, and buy, in one location a massive selection of rods, reels, fly lines, fly tying materials & equipment, flies, hooks, tippet materials, sports clothing, etc, in anticipation of the new 2007 season.

Throughout the day there will be casting demonstrations, casting clinics, presentations on competition fishing, still water fishing, river fishing, advice squad and much more. Fly tying demonstrations on those competition flies, plus club members showing their individual tying patterns that catch on local and national waters, (just ask them to tie that elusive fly?)

Staff will be on hand from many Still Waters such as Stocks Fishery, Sharply Springs, Witton Castle Lakes, and many more to explain what’s on offer in the coming season regarding stocking policy, facilities, local competitions, etc.

Products will be on view from Greys / Hardys of Alnwick, Ultimate Fishing Supplies, I.D. Fishing, Reelsport, Flytek, Cookshill Fly Tying, Top Tackle, Celtic Flycraft, Rutland fishing, and many more, etc. Check out the website for all the up to date information on the show.

This is an excellent opportunity to see what’s new on the market, ask the experts advice on tackle, tactics, locations, tuition on all aspects of fly tying, casting. Hot food and drinks served all day, so come along and have a great day…

The 2007 Dry Line Winners: From left to Right: Steve Welsh (Afternoon winner) Alistair Beaumont (2007 Champion) Mark Jones (Morning winner)

Top Man: Jim Pickford                      Charlie Mitchell 13lbs 10oz   

Ron Powell 13lbs 8oz     Stuart Mason 14lbs

From the left; Burt Fallows 15lb, Glyn Kieghley's 14lb5oz, Leonard Riding's 11lb12oz

Richard Stubbs 14lb Rainbows.

Andy Thompson's Record 16lb'er

Chris Marlow's 14lb 8oz Rainbow.

Albert Tipple with his 13lb 15oz Rainbow

Paul Bebb top individual with his 11lb 14oz Rainbow

Carl Nixon with a 13lb 8oz Rainbow

Glyn Kieghley with a 2lb and a 13lb 8oz

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The Open day Fishing report on Stocks

Report by Ben Date: Saturday 24th February

Best Rainbow 13lbs 8oz Dan Taylor from Northallerton
Best Brown 11lbs Peter Kirk from Manchester
Best Blue Many at 3lbs
Best Catch 48 fish for Ray Sanders from Hyde
Best Bag 5 trout for 25lbs Alex Lee from Preston
Bank Rod Av 8.4
Boat Rod Av 8.0
No. Doubles 18, YES 18!
Sport: Wow!! If I wrote about all the fishy stories today this report would be like War and Peace, so I have selected just a few. As an overall picture 129 returns showed that 1066 trout were caught, of which 723 were carefully returned. There were 18 trout landed that were over 10lbs and many more around the 7 to 8lb mark. Perhaps the fish of the day was captured by Peter Kirk. Peter was fishing from a drifting boat close to the shore in the Northern Shallows when something tore off with his fly. The fish ran him ragged for about 15 minutes until it finally succumbed to the net. To his surprise it was a fin perfect over-wintered 11lb brown trout. After a quick photo it was released to fight another day. Peter�s boat partner Steve Philips also landed an 11lb 8oz rainbow which was hooked just 100m further up the Northern shore.
At the start of the day the trout were high in the water and Masterline Stocks anglers Andy Hooper and Sam Ball were enjoying good sport drifting the margins along the Willows, the Northern Shallows and Willow Island. There was a good hatch of large buzzers and trout were topping sipping the emerging insects. Although they were tempted to try dries they were catching well on a Di3 with boobies and mini lures. In the afternoon the wind picked up and the takes got fewer so they switched to a faster sinker with the same flies. Their hunch proved to be correct the trout had gone down and they were getting the takes again. They said most of there fish taken were close into the shoreline and hard on the bottom and it was their top dropper, the deepest fly, that took biggest tally. They finished a great day with 20 trout a piece. Peter Andrews and Stuart Mcahee also had the same score and also found most of their trout deep down. The largest trout of the day was also taken from the boats a cracking 13lb 8oz rainbow took 20 minutes to land after it was hooked by Dan Taylor from the middle of Newclose Bay.
On the shore the bank anglers were also enjoying the good sport. Hollins Bay was producing arm aching action for many and the first double figure trout of the season was expertly landed by 10 year old Alex Preston from Lancaster. Ray Sanders was the top rod with 48 trout. Ray was fishing near Two Trees on a floating line and his most deadly pattern was the ever effective weighted cat�s whisker. We saw a lot of specimen fish today and a lot of good catches and they were taken from all over the western shoreline from the top end of Newclose Bay at Cowbell Wood all the way down to Grindy�s Lawn at the Dam. Hopefully the great sport will continue into March. Tight Lines Ben.

Here is a list of all the new doubles club members. (photos to follow) Dan Taylor 13lb 8oz, Antony Hooley, Jim McKinlay & Andy Barker 13lbs, Laurence Phelan, Jim Pickford & Shaun Dodd 12lbs 8oz, James Gallagher 12lbs 4oz, Thomas Oman 12lbs 2oz, Alex Preston and A. Grabham 12lbs, Ian Weston and Des Ashcroft 11lbs 12oz, Rudolph Quigliany and Steve Philips 11lbs 8oz, S Ball 11lbs 7oz, Granville Watson 11lbs 5oz, Peter Kirk 11lbs.

21th February 2007

Hi Just a quick update on progress with just a few days to go.

We will have completed the stocking of the reservoir by Wednesday lunchtime, specimens and all. We have stocked at The Dam, The Alders, Hollins Bay and The Causeway. The trout are spreading very quickly along the shores and we have already spotted them hundreds of meters away from where they were released so you will be able to wander afar by the weekend.
Today was glorious at Stocks, it was flat calm, buzzers were hatching in good numbers and I have never seen so many over-wintered fish feeding this early before. They were definitely not the newly stocked fish as they were miles away from the stocking areas. If you fancy targeting them we observed good numbers feeding trout over the Main Basin, Haigh�s Hollow, The Willows and Curry�s Cast.
This season is already way ahead of itself, the water temperature is 7 degrees centigrade, buzzers are hatching, Paul saw some olive�s this morning and the first toads have started to emerge, which we don�t usually see until the end of March.
So if you are visiting stocks in the coming weeks I strongly advise you bring a box of nymphs and maybe a small selection of dries in addition to the usual early season lures.

Tight Lines Ben Dobson

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30th January 2007

Why not join the Bow Landers

The Bow Landers competition club is made up from anglers with years of experience like Bob Cooper and Paul Bebb to others who have just fished their first competition. If you would like to fish as part of a team for either of the two 6 man competitions (The Lexus and the Anglian Water Fulling Mill) then why not join our club. We have had a lot of new anglers who are interested in having a go in 2007 so we are planning to build some new teams. You can join the Bowlanders by visiting www.stocksreservoir..com and clicking on competitions then Bowlanders. I can not recommend it enough; it is great fun and great way to improve your fishing skills. Tight lines Ben

The following competition dates may be of interest to you (these dates are now displayed in table form on the competition calender on www.stocksreservoir.com)

The Lexus Fly Fishing Heats on Stocks

Individual Dry Line: Wednesday 9th of May
Individual Any Line; Thursday 10th of May
Grand Final:Chew Valley 8th September

Team Heat 1: Friday 11th of May
Team Heat 2: Saturday 12th of May
English Team Final: Either 31st July, 2nd or 4th August on Chew


Yorkshire Eliminator
Saturday 19th May

NEW PAIRS COMP*
Scierra UK Pairs Fly Fishing Championships
Stocks Heats on 12TH & 13th June
Final on September 1st (Rutland Water)

The Anglian Water Fulling Mill (6 man team)
Stocks Heat 1 Friday 15th June
Heat 2 to follow
English Final (Rutland 9th July)

Northwest Odds & Sods
Saturday 30th June

The Dry Lines
Saturday 11th August

The Northern Boat Masters
Sunday September 16th

The Greys One Fly Challenge
Sunday October 7th

The Rio 4�s
Saturday October 13th

The Northern Bank Masters
Sunday November 11th

(Stocks will reopen for fishing on Saturday 24th February)

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24th January 2007

The All New Scierra UK Fly Fishing Pairs

Welcome to the Scierra UK Fly Fishing Pairs Championships, the competition run by anglers for anglers. In this competition the team members fish together in a boat and all teams will be allowed to enter as many times as they like with no geographical restrictions.
The Scierra UK Fly Fishing Pairs will be holding heats on Stocks Reservoir on June 12th and June 13th. For all those who qualify the final will be held on Rutland Water on September 1st.
Entry fee is �50 this includes your fishing fees and you will receive a goody bag worth �70!!

1st Prize: �2500
2nd Prize: �1000
3rd Prize: �750
4th Prize: �500
5th Prize: �250

If you would like me to send you an entry form as soon they arrive, then please e-mail your request with your postal address (just in case I can�t email them to you). Tight Lines Ben

Ps. The Dates and information about the other competitions will follow shortly.

The Competition Rules

1. The competition will be fished from drifting boats loch style but with fishery rules applying to flies and fly sizes.

2. Competitors must sign in on morning of match to signify that they have read and understood the match rules.

3. Boat seats and thwart board seats are allowed but must not be more than five inches above level of the gunnels.

4. All matches will be fished to the catch limit of the water with time bonus taking affect thereafter. This is a boat limit not an individual limit.

5. Both anglers are allowed to fish until the boat limit is reached where upon they must return to the jetty and get the score card signed and finishing time agreed by the match official.

6. Each angler is only allowed to use one rod at a time , not exceeding 12 feet in length ,, but they will be entitled to have in the boat with them, a spare rod (length as before) - both rods, however, not to be mounted at the same time. A rod is considered to be mounted if any two sections are joined or if a reel or line is attached.

7. No form of shooting head line, metal core line or metal core braided leader is permitted.

8. The fly size is dictated by the fishery so gold heads lead heads are allowed. However no tandems or treble hooks allowed.

9. A competitor's rod when working flies or retrieving cast must be above water level. Competitors must not stand in the boat when casting or retrieving line.
Competitors may stand when playing a fish.

10. The boat must drift square onto the wind with both anglers fishing in front of the boat (Down wind). Trolling of flies behind the boat is not permitted whether the boat is drifting or being driven by motor or oars. Side casting is permitted but flies must not be allowed to trail behind the boat.

11. Drogues may be used (of Para design) but must be of no more than 6 foot by 6 foot, ropes no longer than 12 feet.

12. The anchoring of boats when fishing is prohibited. Boats must be allowed to drift freely when fishing.

13. During the match, no boat may encroach within a distance of 100 yards in front of another boat from which competitors are fishing. All boats must also keep a minimum of 50 meters away from any bank angler.

14. Mobile telephones may be taken afloat but must be turned off and may only be used for emergency purposes. Fish finding devices are also banned from use during the day of the competition.

15. Competitors are advised to wear buoyancy aids and eye protection when either travelling in, or fishing from, boats. At some fisheries this is compulsory and all competitors must adhere to the rule. In the event of dangerous weather conditions, or any other circumstances, the Match Organiser may alter the start time and change the hours of fishing to whatever he and the Fishery Management feel is in the best interests of the competitors. This might mean that the match will be postponed and held at a later date.

16. The Match Organiser will agree with the manager of the water the team bag limit for the match. A Time Bonus system will be employed and will operate as follows � As soon as the boat limit is achieved the anglers must make their way back to the jetty where their score card will be signed and time recorded by the match official or fishery staff. Bonus will be 2lb per hour (down to a quarter of an hour)

17. Sin Bin- In the event of any boat breaking the rules then the sin bin will come into operation. This will mean that the boat�s catch will be confiscated and the boat will spend 1 hour on the jetty before they are allowed to go back fishing.

18. There may be call for the organisers to amend the rules for some reason if so the match organiser�s decision will be final and binding.

19. The number of qualifiers from each heat will depend upon the level of entry at that venue.

Stocks Reservoir

Stocks Reservoir Daily Reports

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19th January 2007

We are currently looking for a new Fishery Assistant for the 2007 season on Stocks Reservoir. If you know of anybody who may be interested in this position, I would be very grateful if you would pass on my details. Any applicant must live within a commutable distance from the reservoir.
Thank you very much for your help.

Ben Dobson
Email: info@stocksreservoir.com
Mobile: 0789 6000 939

Stocks Fly Fishery
Catlow Rd
Slaidburn
Clitheroe
Lancs
BB7 3AQ

16th 01 2007

"Stocks Reservoir" <stocks@stocksfishery.wanadoo.co.uk>

(Stocks will reopen for fishing on Saturday 24th February)
Doubles Galore!
We are now taking boat bookings for oncoming season.

Also the following event may be of interest to you.

NORTH of ENGLANDFLY FISHING SHOW

This 6th event is to be held on

SUNDAY 4th FEBRUARY 2007
At
NISSAN SPORTS & SOCIAL CLUB WASHINGTON ROAD,
SUNDERLAND. SR5 3NS
inside the Nissan car plant itself, free parking

TIME: 10:00am until 4:00pm

Admission:
Adults [only] �3.00
Juniors Free [under 16]

This is a unique occasion for Trout and Salmon anglers in the North east region to have the opportunity to view, try, and buy, in one location a massive selection of rods, reels, fly lines, fly tying materials & equipment, flies, hooks, tippet materials, sports clothing, etc, in anticipation of the new 2007 season.

Throughout the day there will be casting demonstrations, casting clinics, presentations on competition fishing, still water fishing, river fishing, advice squad and much more. Fly tying demonstrations on those competition flies, plus club members showing their individual tying patterns that catch on local and national waters, (just ask them to tie that elusive fly?)

Staff will be on hand from many Still Waters such as Stocks Fishery, Sharply Springs, Anglian Waters, and many more to explain what�s on offer in the coming season regarding stocking policy, facilities, local competitions, etc.

Products will be on view from Greys / Hardys of Alnwick, Ultimate Fishing Supplies, I.D. Fishing, Reelsport, Flytek, Cookshill Fly Tying, Top Tackle, Celtic Flycraft, Flies by Wendy, Rutland fishing, The Angling Warehouse, and many more, etc. Check out the website for all the up to date information on the show.

This is an excellent opportunity to see what�s new on the market, ask the experts advice on tackle, tactics, locations, tuition on all aspects of fly tying, casting. Hot food and drinks served all day, so come along and have a great day�

Great raffle prizes !!!!!!!!!!!!
To be drawn at 4:00pm on the day

www.northofenglandflyfishingshow.com
Contact: Stephen Grey 0191 4554555
E-mail: stephengrey17@blueyonder.co.uk

Stocks Reservoir

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Hello everyone,

Congratulations if you have become a member of the Stocks Double club. We hope you really enjoyed catching your Double Figure Trout from Stocks this season.

This Letter is to invite you to take part in an end of season fish off exclusively for members of our Doubles Club (fishermen who have landed a double figure trout in 2006). So you have already done the hard bit! The First Prize is a Season Ticket for the 2007 Season. There will also be tackle prizes for the runners up down to 3rd place and the Largest Fish.

This friendly event will take place on Sunday 29th October and will be fished from the bank to fishery rules. There is no entry fee you just need to get your five fish ticket on the day. Only the five fish in your bag will count, these do not have to be your first fish. There is no time bonus so you can catch them in your own time. The person with the heaviest five fish will be the winner.

To book your place for this excellent end of season fish off please ring us on the above number or reply to this email.

Congratulations again and we look forward to seeing you.

From all at Stocks.

 Here are a few photo's of the excellant trout that have been caught at Stocks over the past season.

Steve wright with his 8lbs 4ozs brown trout.

Mark Wheeler 10lb 1oz Rainbow

Happy as Larry! The latest member to the Stocks Doubles Club. Rudolph Quigliana 10lb 4oz

Stephen Ball 10lb Brown Trout

Stocks Reservoir Prices for year 2007

Some of the great fish from Stock caught last season.

Kenny Wall of Bradford  12lbs 8ozs.                 Philip Cox 10lb 4oz Rainbow 

Tom Newton aged 12 of gisburn 11lbs 11ozs.

Mr Cort 10lb Rainbow                          George Peline 11lbs 4oz   
    

Edwin Worsely 10lb 10oz Rainbow      

Mark Rooney 10lb 4oz Rainbow