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Hopefully now the weather is supposed to be warming up,we will see a hatch of buzzers coming off ?? The number one component in the trout diet (Chironomidea) The life cycle of the buzzer consists of-egg,larva,pupa & winged adult fly. Fished as a team or alternatively static under the bung will produce great results. The most consistent fish catcher !!!

So another year has nearly past and what a blast it was. A BIG BIG thankyou to all our customers old and new who have supported us throughout 2017. Looks like 2017 has been our busiest year to date since we opened over 17 years ago this last two weeks alone we have stocked over 1200 fish and had nearly 500 fisherman fisherladies and fisherkids visiting the fishery. On that note we have never had so many young anglers fishing the lakes for a long time which is fantastic to see, so we hope to build on this over the...

Opening Day will be September 4th 2017 Please come and join us for some hopefully excellent fishing, we will be stocking over 1000 trout from 2 -15lb with browns rainbows tigers blues and a few goodies too.   Have a browse through the new look fly fishing shop, it's bigger and better than ever with thousands of products to purchase from the top flyfishing brands. So if your free come on down if it's only for a catch up and a coffee. 🎣🎣🎣  

For the last 3 years we have been closing in July through to the beginning of September when the water temperature rises, we usually leave the stock in the lakes but this year we are running a "Any method weekend" at Ellerdine on July 1st & July 2nd 2017 to make room for some fresh stock at the beginning of September when we reopen. Its the first time we have done this so will be interested to see how it fishes to so many differernt methods. Tickets can be brought online or at the fishery prior to the weekend (no tickets...

Fishing has been spot on the last few weeks plenty of fish getting caught without it being to easy or to hard. Fish size has be quite unreal with so many BIG fish landed with cracking Rainbows Tigers and Browns all getting landed.   Spring has finally arrived to with lots of fly life now starting to show all over the lakes. Best flies this week have been Daddys Buzzers and Nymphs