Lovely Chub-ly on the Fly

It's getting colder out, and that means the Chub are really starting to show!

My friend Christian and I decided to venture into the world of fly fishing this autumn, and started with a trip to New Mills Trout Farm nearby at Brampton. The day ended well with Christian taking home a 6lb Rainbow.

I on the other hand needed a little extra practice! Luckily close family friend John was soon to visit to give me some pointers.

Fast forward a couple of weeks and I was due to head down to see my boyfriend, and meet up with Christian before the 3 of us tried our best fluff chucking in the Midlands.

I asked Dad if he could find a little trout rod, and he disappeared upto the Cafe. 10 minutes later he reappeared with a burgundy glass rod made by the East Anglian Rod Company, that I'm pretty sure is older than I am!

I figured I'd better have a few practice casts before heading out with the boys, and picked out a gold headed Black and Peacock caddis.

Second cast onto the water and to my surprise a hungry Chub wolfed it on the drop!

Given my previous ineptitude I was pretty surprised and very pleased, the Chub put up a great fight and the old through action rod certainly got my heart racing! Luckily Dad was on hand to snap a picture of my first fish on a fly.

Now I've heard of fly fishing for Pike, and a book has been published this year entitled "Flyfishing for Coarse Fish" by Dominic Garrett - here's hoping I'm on Santa's good list again! 

Catching a summer Carp on a bread fly sounds like the challenge for next year.

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28lb 8oz Mirror caught this morning!

I've been talking to angler Martyn Wickham who arrived yesterday this morning.

He's been looking forwards to his holiday - his last trip fishing was with us last November (when he caught his PB Pike but that's another story) because after breaking his arm this year, he's had to wait to get back on the bank, but what a start he's made!

He's certainly a happy chap, and so far has banked a 2lb Chub, a 4lb 8oz Tench, a 4lb Chub and at half past 6 this morning he beat his PB Carp by 11lb with a stunning 28lb 8oz Mirror!

He's fishing during the dark early hours of the morning using a method feeder tight to the margins of cottage 5's private peg, and using a Guru 4 inch hook length.

He's hair rigging one of our blood worm flavoured pellets, and quietly feeding a couple of handfuls of our halibut pellets every few hours.

It's certainly working!

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Spring is in the air!

Richard was out for a day's fishing with Dad this week, and above is one of 25 lovely chub topping 3.5lb, that fell to the charms of spring.

His haul included a shoal of roach, 5 of which were over 2lb - the heaviest at 2lb 4oz.

And to finish the afternoon he landed a lovely mirror in the low 20's!

Talk about a spring clean out!

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Jade, Scott & Thomas

Thanks Jade for sending over these photos of Scott & Thomas showing some of their catches during your weeks stay

hello paul, val and every one at lonsdale had a great holiday and looking forward to our next, just seding a few pictures of the fish we caught on our holiday there are a couple just taken on unhooking mat as scott stayed out one night by himself and had no one to take a photo of him and fish, thanks jade scott and thomas xx

Ken & Kieran Strike Again!

hiya val and paul
thanks  again for another great week at lonsdale, the
fishing was great, i always keep a log of what i catch
and was amazed when i tally up the weeks fish, when i
say it has to be the best weeks fishing in weight and
species caught that i"ve had since i started coming,
most of my week was spent on lonsdale"  in my bivvy,
even had my grandson ,kieran, sleep under the "stars "
with me one night!! he loved every minute of it( partly
because he could stay up late" fishing with his
grandad")but when i(sorry ,we !) caught some cracking
carp and tench his face was a picture. i think he
getting hooked on fishing !!anyway i put a list
together for you and some pictures, the tench is a new
p.b. for me all 8 pound 12 ozes of fighting muscle,
there"s a wild carp which weighed 14 pound 5 ozes,the
mirror carp was just under 18 pound,all in all i caught
over 50 pound of tench, biggest 8 pound 12 ozes,
smallest 4 pound,3 mirrors, biggest just shy of 18
pound,smallest 9 pound,3chub up to 3pound 8ozes,2
commons 7 pound and 10 pound and a roach of 2pound 7
ozes !!!
all in all
paul and val
i had the
best weeks
fishing for
a long long
time and
cant wait to
get back in
august
!!thanks
again to you
all see ya
soon
regards ken thwaites.

A note from Neil, Nathan, Heather.

"Hi Val, Paul and Julian,

just had another great week at Lonsdale, The cottage was superb and the weather behaved for most of the week. We had some good fishing too, Heather caught her first Tench and at 5 1/4 lb it was a good one. Nathan caught the biggest carp at 9 1/2 lb. In all we caught 5 Carp, 6 Tench, 4 Chub and loads of Roach over 1 lb. We also spotted 28 different species of bird. As you can see from the pics the fish are in superb condition and a joy to fish for in such beautiful surroundings. Looking forward to our next visit already.

Thanks again
Neil, Nathan and Heather"



We're glad you had a great time, and your photo's are great guys! I'm impressed with your ornithology as well!
Hope to see you again soon, tight lines,
Emma, Paul, Val, and Julian

Lonsdale High and Dry

image from the complete tangler

Hello All!

I'm home again fishing for my project and I thought I'd better let you know that all is fine here!
The water's up but we're not flooded.
Our thought' s and sympathy go out to everyone effected, especially those from Mum's hometown Cockermouth where main street is under 7ft of water and a bridge has collapsed. My Grandma still lives there - but up atop a ruddy great hill so she's ok.

Thanks to everyone who's enquired how we are - everything is fine.

Right it's getting late and there's a cracking roach out there just waiting to meet me, not to mention the kingfisher, and my robins waiting for their breakfast of maggots!
(Last weekend I caught 12 roach and 3 chub in one day - 2 of the chub were absoloute belters over 2 1/2 lbs!)

Em