Well done to Dave Phillips, Dave Norrie and Shogo this weekend for landing some great fish in reasonably hard conditions. Trout were rising all over the lake, but appeared to be extremely selective. Most fell to emergers and parachute patterns fished into the ripple while Mr Phillips secured four on a size 16 PTN.

Under the watchful eye of Alan Grunig, Saturdays tuition with the Wiltshire Fly Fishing School was great as we saw seven people new to fly fishing managing to cast and occasionally temp a few fish with one landed in time for supper.  Well done to your all.

Just a reminder that there will be casting lessons for around 10 clients on Saturday afternoon so it may be busy. Saturday morning, Sunday and Bank Holiday are business as usual. (Saturday evening too, for that matter)

Friday evening saw a great rise from about 20.30 with some very nice rainbows taking the Mayfly and other tasty morsels until nearly 10pm.

The weather looks to be a mixed bag but it should remain largely overcast so the fishing should be okay. As the water tempurature ramains in the early 60’s,  you’ll often have to work a little harder and either fish deep or really look at what’s hatching.  Tight lines !!!

For anyone after some great sport after work, the evenings have seen some great rises. Dry fly action has been fantastic with Emergers, Sedge and F-Fly’s doing the business. What better way to finish the day?

Not a member? Evening tickets are available after 5pm for £15.  3 fish limit with the option to retain your first fish. Tight lines!!!

Please be advised of the following dates if you plan to fish as it could be a tight squeeze….

May 20th:                         North Wiltshire Fly Fishing Club Evening

The club have their annual evening Fish and BBQ at Churn Pool Fishery. Keith Passant from Orvis (Burford) should be in attendance for anyone wishing to try out a Helios, Hydros, Western3 or Clearwater.  If you wish to have a chat with the members or fancy a cast, please drop in.

May 22nd:  There are 8 fishermen booked in for this Saturday along with a few family members. We have allowed a BBQ on this occasion and advise that the fishery could be busy after mid to late morning.

May 29th : Updated  Jim Williams’ Wiltshire Fly Fishing School will be giving tuition to 10 clients on the Saturday of the Bank Holiday from 13.30 – 17.00. This will obviously be  busy over some of the lake.  Sunday & Bank Holiday Monday will be business as usual.

June 26th:  To see out the first six months before we close for the summer, we’ll be having a BBQ for our members and any Day Ticket visitors in attendance. We look foreard to seeing as many of you as possible and may well have a competition for Best Fish in the morning. More info TBA.

New stock will be delivered 17th March. With the evenings erupting with surfce action, the new additions should provide some great sport.

Many thanks to all thoe who were able to attend our Bank Holiday BBQ. We beat the weather by a couple of hours and everyone had a great time catching up, munching burgers and landing a few fish.
We’ll have another towards the end of June before we close the trout fishing for the summer. Until then, get yourself on the bank and enjoy the Mayfly hatches.

We are pleased to offer our customers the chance to try out some tasty Orvis rods on the evening of 29 April. Keith Passant who heads the fishing department at Orvis Burford will have the Helios, Hydros, Western 3 and Clearwater rods ready to cast from around 7.00pm

80 High Street, Burford, Oxfordshire, OX18 4QF     Phone: 01993 823566
Monday to Saturday
9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Sunday
11:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Along with Keith will be a few members of the North Wiltshire Fly Fishing Club. The club meet at the Wroughton Working Mens Club every Thursday evening at 8pm. If you are interested in tying a few flies or simply fancy a natter with some like minded folk, drop in.

The Fishing

With fresh stock in on Friday 23rd, Churn Pool fished well over the weekend with Shogo and Bob Hicks amongst others landing some beautiful rainbows and missing plenty more.  Today (26th April) fished exceptionally well with Stan Kerslake and Ian White landing their limit with the bonus of a fantastic brownie on the bank also. Mac Lowe also returned to form with three rainbows for the freezer. It was great to see Darwin Turner back on the bank this evening and even better to see four fish landed with Diawl Bachs and a Muddler.

Cheltenham & Gloucester Fly Dressers Guild:

Irish Lough Style Flies

Those of you who are regulars to the fishery may have spotted some legendary casting coming Steve Cole. If you are lucky, you might have even seen his fly box!

Steve will be giving a tying demo & talk at the Cheltenham & Gloucester Fly Dressers Guild at the Cheersrollers pub in Shurdington on 4th May.  With many years of fishing behind him and countless trips to Ireland to sample their trout waters, we’d count Steve as an authority when it comes to trout flies wherever he fishes.

BBQ !!!

On May 1st, we will be having a BBQ for our Members and Day Ticket customers and should kick off at about 12.00.

Make sure you bring some degreaser if you are fishing in the afternoon. It’s no good tying on a leader line with sausage fingers !!!

The bright sunlight really pushed the fish deep into the water, but Saturday saw a a return to form with Shogo managing five 3lb rainbows on a Marabou Damsel with a few others catching here and there. People had to work hard for their fish and a few unfortunately blanked, but the evening saw a good rise to which Steve Wrigley tempted one with a Cats Whisker before changing to an Emerger and landing a beautiful rainbow of 3lb 7oz.

Well, it looks like the weather won’t be quite as bad as predicted earlier in the week so we might have some suitable fly fishing conditions this weekend. We had a small top up of rainbows today (2-3 lb fish)  and will stock again on 9th April with about 350lbs of rainbows with a few browns mixed in.

Nick Hall managed to bag up this week with his signature buzzer closely followed by Mike Waring tempting the fish with his trusty lure patterns.

Anyone wanting to get started with a bit of fly dressing or further their current knowledge may be interested in the North Wiltshire Fly Fishing Club who meet at the Wroughton Working Mens Club every Thursday evening or the Cheltenham and Gloucester Fly Dressers Guild which meet at The Cheese Rollers in Shurdington near Cheltenham on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month.  A little further from home (from Cirencester anyway) is the Pheasant Fly Fishers Club in Chippenham. Check out the link for more info…

http://www.pheasantflyfishers.co.uk/

New faces are always welcome!!!

http://www.cgfdg.co.uk/ 

Cheltenham Club Programme 2010