Hi everybody,

My buddy and I are having a 2 day fishing break Thursday and Friay this week. Thursday we will be at Ravensthorpe and Friday on Thornton.

It's 5 years since I fished Ravensthorpe and neither of us have ever been to Thornton. Has anybody fished either this week and are able to give any pointers on areas to fish (we are goig to be on the banks). I'm expecting to use buzzers, diawl bach and maybe olive imitations at Ravensthorpe, just hope the sun isnt putting the fish too far down.

Any info much appreciated.

Cheers

Mat

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Mat, you might find this a useful resource... www.rutlandgillies.co.uk

In addition, Ivor posts how Thornton is fishing each week in the "UK Stillwaters" section here.

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JH based near Southampton

Thanks John, I've seen the anglian water report for last week at Ravensthorpe, just after any possible input on how its fishing this week.

I've already pm'd Ifor, waiting for a reply

Thanks

Mat

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Matt. I fished Ravensthorpe last Wednesday and Sunday. Wednesday was great had ten on buzzers but had the benefit of cloud cover. Sunday was a struggle. Bright sunshine put the fish deep. Had one on a buzzer (and foul hooked a 26lb pike)
The dam was the best bet with a Di-3 and orange blob if you can bare to fish that way. All of the fish were quite small only up to around 2lb.

If it's very bright you definitely need to get over the deeper water in my experience there, unless it is damsel time, and fish right down, either with buzzers or lures. That means the dam, really.

Charlie

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pm sent please check it, hope the fishing has gone well....

Thanks for all the info, the 2 days couldn't have been more different, fishing wise anyway.

Thursday at Ravensthorpe was very difficult, although a large hatch of big buzzers lasted most of the day, the fish just wern't playing ball. A few were rising early doors about 40 yards from the bank but as the sun got higher, the went deep. Fishing from the dam wall produced 2 to my mates deep fished lures but I couldn't buy a touch all day despite trying what seemed like every buzzer, nymph, lure I had in my box.

Friday brought exactly the same weather conditions and having been advised but the guy in Thornton lodge to try the wood bank, we arrived at the waters edge to be greeted by feeding fish. Again they stopped showing as much when the sun got higher but the fish were still in the area and we both caught quite steadily through the day, my mate taking 12 and myself 15, mainly to damsel patterns although towards the evening when the fish came back to the surface I managed 4 off the top to a Black hopper.

The water at Thornton is apparantly very low for the time of year and the bank we were fishing allowed us to wade out around 20 yards and fish our flies into maybe 8 feet of water. The water is also very clear.

We were both very impressed with Thornton (our first visit) and will be returning to both fisheries later in the year.

Mat

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