Trout Fishing in the Lake District
The trout fishing in the Lake District on Esthwaite has been tricky over the last couple of weeks with fish remaining deep between 10 and 20 feet down. This has reflected in the rod average which stands at 2.1 fish per angler. Early mornings and late in the evenings the fish have been abit more forthcoming near the surface. Hatches of buzzers and sedge have been good, but top of the water sport has been restricted to either end of the day! The trout are also feeding hard still on the daphnia and the fry bashing has been frenetic with vast shoals of coarse fish. One things for sure the trout do not go hungry at this time of year, with a myriad of foodstuff available to them.
Someone who has had no problem catching the fish lately is Swedish angler Tomas Spur who boat fished the venue and in 2 consecutive days landed 37 trout on the fly. In complete contrast to the English approach of Di – 7 and lures, Tomas adopted a floating line approach with a 20 foot leader and fished a gold head hares ear nymph on the point with very small nymph patterns on the droppers. Fishing an extremely slow retrieve Tomas took 37 rainbows and browns over a 2 day stint.
Peter Wilde from Kent fished from the boats also and took a cracking rainbow of 3lb+ from around the cages area of the lake on fly!
Worm and spin anglers though have been producing altogether better results. Fishing around the cages Andy Foreacre and Glen Brian from Bolton used worm fished 15 feet down to take 5 rainbows to 3lb+.