Midlands Fly Fishing Report - April

Well spring finally arrived this month, the rising temperature bringing spectacular hatches of buzzers at some of our venues.

Large buzzer hatches have been a feature of sport at Willington Lake Trout Fishery, where we have experienced great sport fishing small emergers in the surface film. Large numbers of brown trout are being caught and the fish are in immaculate condition. The rainbows are starting to move up in the water too, with grown on fish to 6lbs landed on midge pupa patterns.

Marton Heath is fishing well with good catches of rainbows averaging 1.5lb. Although many anglers are catching on lures in the current coloured water conditions, good surface sport is to be had to hatches of buzzer.

The same can be said at Carsington, Dane Bridge and Loynton fisheries, where fishing lures or a team of nymphs has been the main tactic. As always with Carsington two outfits are usefull, one with a sinking line and damsel, the other rigged with a floater and buzzer combination. Some nice browns continue to come out, but personally I would head for Willington as the brown trout fishing is amazing at the moment.

Loynton continues to produce doubles plus the odd twenty pounder mainly to lures ( black and green or white and green combinations are a good starting point) and midge pupa drifted around features.

Some fine dry fly fishing is due as olives are just starting to hatch on most waters, Willington and Marton are noted dry fly venues and both have very big hatches.

See you on the water!

Steve