Angling: What a good day for Gadd; ANDREW WILKINSON rounds up all the latest angling news TROUT TOPICS.MIKE GADD caught a 10lb 4oz rainbow at LOCKWOOD BECK, the big fish taking a size 14 Diawl Bach Also called "little devil", diawl bach is a popular fly pattern used in British still waters, and an appropriate lure to use when the fish are feeding on midge pupae. The dressing is simple: size 8 to 14 hook, brown thread, a few barbs of brown hackle for the tail, copper wire, a offered from a boat in deep water off the dam. Olive Murray, fishing off the point, also went afloat and was rewarded with a rainbow of 6lb 8oz. She also opted for a size 14 pattern, a Hare's Ear Shuttlecock. Small dries are accounting for a lot of fish, Andrew Grabham going down to size 20 for his five fish. Over 100 more, including blues, browns and rainbows to 8lb have been stocked this week adding to a good head of top quality fish. TROUT are shoaling in the East End of SCALING DAM and feeding on swarms of ants. Fly anglers have fared best from the east end of the south shore, with small Black and Peacock Spiders effective. Several bait anglers have caught a limit, especially those fishing at distance from the dam wall, with legered worm tipped with a Powerbait egg. Over the last week 210 anglers have caught 529 rainbows. The reservoir has just been stocked with Adj. 1. stocked with - furnished with more than enough; "rivers well stocked with fish"; "a well-stocked store" stocked furnished, equipped - provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose (as furniture or equipment or authority); "a furnished apartment"; a further 700 rainbows. PETER Fletcher of Eaglescliffe, a regular at WEST HOUSE, had a good day landing a total of 10 fish on small patterns. Jonathan Dixon Jonathan Dixon born April 101989 is a British television actor, best known for playing playground bully Mathew "Mooey" Humphries in long-running CBBC show Grange Hill. landed a superb fish of 16lb 4oz. He spotted it rising in a sheltered bay and tempted it with a Daddy Longlegs. Richard Rowlands of Stockton caught seven fish including a nice blue of 9lb 6oz, all on Black Buzzers. Fishing is improving, and the water clearing as autumn approaches. Small patterns are working well, with Buzzers, nymphs and small dries all catching fish. Two flies can now be used at West House. The top patterns include Shipmans, Hare's Ear, black or olive Buzzers. Black Spinner, Montana, Fritz, Pheasant Tail Nymphs, Cat's Whisker THERE has been steady sport at JUBILEE, and although no doubles have been caught in the last week, fish are falling to lures, especially Cat's Whisker and Yellow Dancer. RAINBOWS to 6lb, and up to 13 fish per angler, have been caught at THORNTON STEWARD Thornton Steward is a small village in North Yorkshire, England, near Wensleydale, with a population of 100-200. The village is very similar to the others that dot Wensleydale but Thornton Steward however has a reservoir owned by Yorkshire Water. where Muddlers and other fry imitations have proved effective. However trout are also rising to small naturals. The rod average is three. LEIGHTON is on form, with 40 per cent of anglers catching their limit in a week in which 146 anglers caught 327 trout to 11lb 2oz. RAINBOWS to 14lb 8oz have been caught at STONEBRIDGE, where small dries have been best in a challenging week. GRASSHOLME: 356 anglers caught 890 rainbows to 2lb 4oz and nine blues to 9lb 8oz. Bait: Green and White, Yellow and Pink Powerbait Eggs, float fished worm. Patterns: Sedgehog, Bibio, Hare's Ear, CDCs, Dawson's Olive. 950 stocked. HURY: 53 anglers caught 139 rainbows to 3lb 12oz and 10 blues to 2lb. Patterns: Hoppers, Black and Olive Buzzers, Sedgehogs, dark dries. 200 stocked. DERWENT: 429 anglers caught 1132 rainbows to 5lb, six browns and six blues. Bait: cocktail of worm and Powerbait with Greedy Bait in a feeder. Patterns: small black traditionals, Black Pennel, Bibio, Kate McLaren etc. 1200 stocked. FONTBURN: 279 anglers caught 502 rainbows. Bait: Spring green Powerbait, worm. Patterns: Dawson's Olive, Consett Budgie budgerigar, budgie see melopsittacus undulatus. budgerigar fledgling disease a polyomavirus infection of young psittacines that causes failure of feather growth, hepatic and renal necrosis, and sometimes death. , Kate McLaren. KIELDER: 147 anglers caught 341 rainbows to 6lb 4oz and 15 browns to 2lb. Bait: worm, sweetcorn. Patterns: Orange Fritz, Claret claret: see wine. Hoppers, Clan Chief. Around 750 stocked. CAPTION(S): A DAM GOOD CATCH: Kevin Potter of Eston proudly displays the 9lb rainbow trout rainbow trout Species (Oncorhynchus mykiss) of fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae) noted for spectacular leaps and hard fighting when hooked. It has been introduced from western North America to many other countries. he caught on yellow Powerbait at Scaling Dam Reservoir |
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