DAY AND SEASON PERMITS

Permit rooms are closed until further notice. Please purchase your day and season permits here or call one of our team on 01566 771930.

 

Reminders & Requests

• Please send me any photos of your catches, lakes or any nature or wildlife pictures that we could utilise for press articles or social media posting. It would also be great to have some clear and close up photos of some of the flies used, and would be very keen to see flies tied at home as well, so if you have any photos to hand please send them to- [email protected]

 

• Please complete Catch Returns online, this will enable us to gain a clearer picture of our lakes and stock levels which of course in turn will help us to continue to improve our Anglers experience.

 

• Any Roadford Brown Troutwith adipose removed as part of the project study please record and send any photo/details of these Brown Trout caught.

 

Bag, Catch & Release limits:

• Rainbow Trout- Bag Limit is 5 fish. Catch & Release limit is 10 fish per day – we would kindly ask that all anglers purchase a further ticket if they would like to continue fishing.
• Brown Limit– Bag Limit is 4 fish. Catch & Release is unlimited (if you’re lucky enough to catch good numbers of our Brownies then we feel it’s well deserved!) 

 

BOATS 

 

We currently have four boats available at Kennick, three at Roadford and one at Stithians. The two boats for Siblyback will be available soon.

To book a boat for the fisheries please click here.

 

News and Highlights from the week:

Highlights this week include Adam P's 7lb brownie at Stithians and a rod average of over 4 fish per person at Fernworthy!

There are still plenty of spaces left for qualifying for the Best of the Best Competition:

The qualifiers have a maximum of 12 people per heat with the top 6 qualifying for the £2000 final at Kennick on 17^th October. 

Places still available for the dates below - To book in please call our office on 01566 771930. Don’t delay!

Burrator – 18 September (New date)

Kennick – 25 September (New date)

Kennick – 2 October

 All the information and rules can be found here: https://www.swlakestrust.org.uk/best-of-the-best

 The full list of qualifiers will be posted on our Best of the Best page on our website (link above).

Please keep the catch reports coming in, we really do appreciate the depth of information they offer and it’s a great help to us. Thanks also for the great photos and videos we’ve received so far.

Kennick  

Rod Average: 3.03

The majority of anglers at Kennick favouring a deep sinking line with a slow retireve this week; 'Buzzers successful in 18 Foot depth close to bottom. White or orange tungsten bead head on Dorsey yarn indicator worked well. Small window for booby takes between 10 and 12 - deep buzzers consisted through most of the day.' - Richard B.

Also thank you to Roger P for his report: 'Early morning 5.00am, North west breeze going up along the lake, the water was bubbling with fish top and tailing everywhere, but untouchable. Mid-morning that stopped and the odd fish was showing, they had gone deep. I went through all the lines, sink tip-inter- then the fast sink, natural patterns weren’t working, so the orange blob took 2 and a winter long shank size 8 black & orange frizz put 3 in the net, but lost 2 at the net and miss probably 12. '

Graham R: ‘Most caught in bright sun in the morning on sinking lines. One fish of 2.25lbs had large parallel scratches on each flank.....undoubtedly a failed attempt by a cormorant.....a smaller fish would not have escaped! Large numbers of very small insects widely seen skating and hovering at the surface. Many fish rising on the surface, throughout the day, and good numbers of Coch y Bondhu type beetles in the water and flying past.’

Kevin M: ‘Very hot and bright sunshine. 11:00 to 15:00 Spent some on intermediate line as no fish showing on surface. Switched to booby as controller for washing line with buzzer and cruncher. Both fish went for the booby. One other missed take.’

View the full Catch Report here

Check out the Kennick fishing map here

The Kennick fishing guide is here

Siblyback

Rod Average: 3.75

Lots of beetle activity around Siblyback this week, with plenty of fish rising and subsequently many anglers reporting most successes with various beetle flies fished on the surface.

Thank you to Phil M-R for his report: ‘I arrived at the reservoir quite early, at 06:30 with fellow angler Simon. It was a bright day with light winds which varied from NE to NW and was quite light - between 7 and 12miles per hour on the anemometer. It stayed bright all day (contrary to most forecasts) and was very warm right from the start, what cloud we did see was quite high. There were no fish showing on the surface early on and most seemed to be a few feet down. As it warmed further we saw many of the beetles gathering in the willows around the lake, so we walked around to the North Bank where the wind was blowing them off the land as they took to the wing. I had never seen a flock of Cormorants before today - but there were about a dozen of them sat on a small island which has now been exposed in the marsh area all drying their wings in the morning sun, whilst stretched all along the North Bank was a large flock of geese - I love the noise they make... constantly chattering. We used two variations sizes of black beetle one was a black blob with a foam back size 12 which was unfortunately lost - and the other was a foam backed beetle with peacock body and a light olive grizzly cock hackle in sizes #12 and #14. One had rubber legs. Simon had a good solid take on a montana early on - which he unfortunately lost and that was pretty much it with regard sub surface flies. Later we started to see swirls - still quite some way from the bank - but they were getting nearer and we could also see small groups of beetles that had lost their fight with the breeze and plopped into water in front of us. A quick change to the dry beetle brought an immediate response and the game was on... Another excellent days sport - fun, fast and really hard fighting fish - in particular another 20 fish which was lean and in absolutely cracking condition.’

 

View the full Catch Report here

Read our guide to fishing at Siblyback here

Check out our Siblyback fishing map here

Burrator

Rod Average: 1.31

Quiet week at Burrator this week with one full bag for Stuart M who caught 6 browns and 1 rainbow from his boat on Friday. Richard P found it hard to compete with the beetles that the fish were feeding on: 'Had a great day with my son in law unfortunately blanked. They seemed to be feeding on small black beetles and did not have anything that could tempt them apart from 4 knocks on black and green buzzers. Thank you great day'. Alan C was lucky enought to spot a kingfisher on his session – let’s hope it remembered it's catch return!

 

View the full Catch Report here

Read our guide to fishing at Burrator here

Check out our Burrator fishing map here

Stithians

Rod Average: 1.97

Congratulations to Dr Adam Price who landed this fantastic 7lb brownie this week:

‘Although not season ticket holders we fish Stithians fairly frequently. I was fishing on the North shore at Stithians at about 11.30am on Friday 25th of June. I was using a 9 foot 6 wt rod, with a 15 foot leader of 5lb fluorocarbon with a red holo Diawl Bach on the point and a green holo DB on the dropper, both size 12. Both home tied. The wind was a Force 3-4 North Westerly and there was gentle rain at times. I was very slowly figure of 8 retrieving when all went tight. The fish made two powerful runs, taking me down to my backing, before cruising and boring strongly about three rod lengths out. Eventually I netted it and removed the hook with the fish in the water in the net. I removed it very briefly for the photo before releasing it when it swam away strongly. I have caught several large rainbows, seatrout and salmon in my fishing life, and I would estimate the fish as weighing about 7lbs. It was in immaculate condition, with a beautiful shape, fin perfect with a huge tail. There was no sign of cannibalism, and no kype, so I suspect it was a female. Just for the record, I lost 3 cracking rainbows, all over 2 lbs, in the same four hour session.’

Other notable reports were from Mike F: 'Lots of surface activity from Rainbows around 7.30pm. The 12 oz Brown Trout was in very good condition and great sport on my 3 wt setup, running off against the reel drag. Several fish lost during the session, including 1 smash-take. Barbless hooks and 4lb tippet for dry fly, searching for wild Browns mostly.' and Clive P with 5 rainbows and 1 brown 'All caught on drys in the first ripple 25ft off the shore, 5 on gnat on the point and 1 on the klinkhammer, dropper in 1 hour between 3 and 4pm. Bright sunshine.'

Thanks to Derek Grove for this photo of some of his catch:

View the full Catch Report here

Read our guide to fishing at Stithians here

Check out our Stithians fishing map here

 

Fernworthy

Rod Average: 4.50

A quiet week at Fernworthy, with only 6 catch returns received  and anglers reporting having the lake to themselves. Brian D caught nine 16-24cm brownies on Wednesday with a bibio and sedgehog, both on the surface: 'Weather was bright and sunny, nice ripple on the water. Some beetles noticed in the margins. Arrived 9.15am left 4.30pm. Only one other fisherman there when we arrived and we didn’t see any others all day.'

Steve H managed 6 small trout and Tony P caught one at 28cm.

View the full Catch Report here

Read our guide to fishing at Fernworthy here

Check out our Fernworthy fishing map here

 

Colliford

Rod Average: 0.88

Very few insect hatches reported this week resulting in very few rises, until Saturday when Chris T landed 6 browns on a GRHE dry fly and a bobs bits: 'Lots of insects being blown on to the water and fish rising everywhere, some close to the bank. Had a frustrating 1st hour though trying different dry flies and it wasn’t until I changed down to a 6x leader that I finally caught on a GRHE dry. 2 more followed before the wind dropped completely and things got tougher. Moved back to the dam and switched to black bobs bits pulled just below the surface which worked a treat. Caught 3 more better fish up to a pound and lost a couple more.' 

The carp seemed to want in on the action this week, with anglers catching 3 of them. Chris B landed 1 brown trout and a 6lb carp: ‘Hard days fishing for Browns, took a small one off the surface and missed a couple of slashes to the dries, switched to wets, again the fish didn`t respond. Had some fun with a carp which took the sedge fairly hooked in the scissors.’

Photo: Chris Brand

View the full Catch Report here

Read our guide to fishing at Colliford here

Check out our Colliford fishing map here

 

Roadford

Rod Average: 0.89

A good hatch of mayfly this week with fish leaping from the water to catch them. 8 browns and 4 perch caught, from 9 catch returns. Please keep the catch returns coming in as they really help us and other anglers - the more info you can include the better J

View the full Catch Report here

Read our guide to fishing at Roadford here

Check out our Roadford fishing map here

 

Wildlife round-up: Kingfisher at Burrator, 4 curlews at Colliford, Dragonflies, damselflies, ducklings and cormorants at Kennick, lots of geese and a flock of 12 cormorants at Siblyback and a Ruddy Shelduck at Stithians.

  

Hope to catch up on one of our waters in the very near future.

Tight lines!

Dil