Season Ends on a high note …
The final day of the Season crept upon us again this year and before we knew it we were closing the doors on 30th November. Despite experiencing some very inclement wet weather conditions throughout the year again (a sign of things to come with our climate, perhaps?) we also enjoyed some extremely productive days of sport and the Season ended on a high note with superb fish being caught closer to the margins whilst feeding on fry.
During the Season we recorded more than 5,000 individual visits and received many extremely positive comments about the fishery and its staff, for which we are all very grateful – Blithfield Reservoir Trout Fishery is run by anglers, for anglers and whilst we don’t have all the bells and whistles that some fisheries have, our focus is always on the safe sporting experience anglers can have here, regardless of their level of fly fishing knowledge. Our overall rod average for the entire Season was a very buoyant 5.96. This figure is calculated from all returns submitted including those from 4 hour permits and nil returns.
We have been stocking quality rainbow, blue and brown trout for some years now and a huge thanks must go to our Fish Farm Team of Will, Jack and Jake for rearing some of the best trout we’ve seen for many years. A particular feature this year has been the increased size and stamina of our rainbow trout and for this we also thank our valued suppliers for providing the excellent foundations on which to build our stocks each Season.
