Some serious wind and driving rain made for somewhat unpleasant conditions for some of the week but if you timed your visit to fit in with one of the windows of decent weather you could expect to catch fish. Snakes were the ‘go–to‘ pattern for the week, coupled with intermediate lines, but as always the … Continue reading Week ending 8th December 2019
As well as the usual riot of rainbows, plenty of blue trout were caught this week with Hare‘s Ears, Montanas, Dawsons Olives and Black Buzzers the flies of choice. It was also a great week for one angler as Christmas came early for Peter Martin when he netted our big cash tagged fish in Haywards … Continue reading Week ending 1st December 2019
Poor weather made for difficult fishing conditions this week but there are still a lot of cracking fish being caught with a few blue and rainbow trout showing amongst the usual rainbows. No double figure fish were reported, but there were a few 6lb plus fish showing, including the fish below, which fell to a … Continue reading Week ending 24th November 2019
The consistent winter fishing continues on Haywards Farm Lake with plenty of good–sized fish still being brought to the net, with a couple of fish weighing 7lb 8oz the best specimens for the week. After a week that was dominated by damsels, a whole variety of patterns scored this week with cat‘s whiskers probably the … Continue reading Week ending 17th November 2019
This was another good week, despite some challenging conditions, with plenty of fish caught including some of our newly–introduced tiger trout. The fish of the week was a cracker of 12lb to P. Muir that fell for a damsel pattern and was returned alive. Damsels of various variants were certainly the patterns to be on … Continue reading Week ending 10th November 2019
It has been another very busy week on Haywards Farm Lake with lots of fish showing amidst some great buzzer hatches which, at times, has seen the lake just fizzing with fish. The Farlows team of Jonny Muir, Jack Gregorie and Ashton Pohl enjoyed some great sport last weekend with 14 fish between them. Mini … Continue reading Week ending 3rd November 2019
An excellent week here at the Game Fishing Centre saw plenty of fish being caught from both boat and bank and some of Hayward Farm Lake‘s newly–introduced tiger trout also put in an appearance. Snakes are the pattern to be on at the moment but a few fish are still falling for small buzzers presented … Continue reading Week ending 27th October 2019
The highlight of the week for us was our ‘ 50:50 Learn to Fish‘ event, which took place here on Saturday 19th October. Beginners of all ages, but mostly juniors, firstly had a talk on fly fishing from Charles Jardine before learning a little entomology and fly tying and then getting a casting lesson from … Continue reading Week ending 20th October 2019
Thanks to periods of fairly incessant, heavy rain this was a challenging week to say the least, but there were still fish to be caught and we did see bent rods throughout the period. Thankfully, with the weather finally beginning to dry out, we are already beginning to see far better returns and a lot … Continue reading Week ending 13th October 2019
And we are off for the start of the autumn and winter season on Haywards Farm Lake, and what a start it was with torrential downpours greeting the few who braved the opening day storms! A couple of the brave fishers did have the last laugh though, as they netted some cracking fish. The fishing … Continue reading Week ending 6th October 2019
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