Fishing Reports

Brookhall Fishing Report - Week Ending 18th April 2010

With the warmer weather finally here plenty of fish have been falling to dry flies, klinkhammers, Shipmans and Greydusters all doing well. Alan Coleman had a good days sport on Monday and his bag limit included this lovely fish at 6lb 6oz. 

Buzzers are now taking the majority of fish with black being the most productive colour for this week. The size of fly has changed from day to day with 12s being successful on one day, then 14s the next.  The way the flies are fished has been equally important, with a static fly being more successful one day and a moving fly the next. The same goes with dry flies, so me days the trout want it static, while on others some movement is more productive. The fish are high in the water at the minute so a floating line is your best choice and maybe an intermediate.

 Ryan Roy Creighton (picture attached) had 10 fish to the net, several of which were 4-5lb weight with the rest between 21/2 to 3 lb mark. Ryan was fishing buzzers in the high in the water.

  Steven Mulvaney from Lisburn had a good 3 hours sport catching 8 fish on black buzzers and black spiders. Alan Graham from Kilkeel had 23 again on buzzers and a hare’s ear while Jim Bonner landed a massive 38 fish on damsels.

  Jim Cairns from Antrim had 13 on silver buzzers while Davy McBurney had 8 fish between 2-3 lb weight on black buzzers.

  Michael Shortt aged 14 landed an impressive 10 fish on brightly coloured blobs.

Rachel Browns first visit to Brookhall with her Grandad and Uncle George was a great success. Rachel, pictured here, with her forst ever trout outfished both her Uncle and her Grandad. Well done Rachel.

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