Having tried a good many of the stillwater trout fisheries in the Manchester area over the years, my father and I have made Curley's Trout Fishery our regular haunt. There's a good reason for this. It's superb. Located in Horwich on the edge of the West Pennine Moors, Curley's has given us great fishing and just last Friday, gave me a 38 fish day. Noticing a hatch of small olives coming off and the bulges of trout taking nymphs just under the surface I had hopefully tied on a size 18 Hare's Ear as my opening gambit. It was just as well that I had 5 more in my fly box because the trout hammered it for the next 8 hours and by the time I'd finished they'd all been chewed or had the hook bend straightened. A small price for an awesome day's fishing. Quality rainbows and blues grabbed the fly and roared off time and again. My dad didn't have too shabby a day, either. He landed 21 nice trout!

I'd recommend Curleys to anyone. Owners Steve and Helen provide a warm welcome and stock regularly with excellent fish. There's a cafe on site should to weather become uncooperative and you can get tuition if you want to improve your skills.

It's not the typical Blobs and Cat's Whisker stillwater either. As I've said, my red letter day came courtesy of the Hare's Ear. Lures do work here, but not always and the imitative angler is well rewarded. Curleys has a lot of natural food. It's fishing the way I like it.

Directions can be found at www.curleysfishery.co.uk

And let me guess, you have nothing to do with the business ????

And there was I thinking SPAM was used for coarse fishing..............DOH

I think you will find that this sort of post is not well received on this forum...particularly first postings!

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Roy

Give him a break FFS ! Miserable buggers !

He has just had an extremely successful days fishing and want's to share it with us.

Welcome to the Forum Mark.

Regards

Andy

If you want positive feedback on your personal red letter day try the other forum (which shall not be mentioned on here) but here is the link



Anyway well done, 38 fish on a size 18 hares ear.

I've also caught about that many wild fish on the rivers in a day, but would not brag about it because sometimes even wild fish are easy to catch.
But hey that would be wholly unacceptable stuff to post on this forum as wild fish are the only fish worth catching and could not possibly give themselves up as easily as stock fish. That would be unthinkable.

I would like to see how many of these wild fishing could match your achievements and how many would actually catch their limit on these "easy" stockies. I know one person who was always knowledgeable and a self confessed "expert" on wild fish. We went out to our local small stillwater and he blanked while i was catching regularly on standard wet fly patterns. I even offered him some of my flies but he was insistent of blanking in style with his Tups Indispensable with the Chadwicks special shade wool body or whatever else he tried.

Anyway enough of me moaning. Credit where credit's due.

Iain

My God when I posted the link it would not show, now taht's clever, blocking competitor's links.

here it is as text
http://www.completefisher.com/forum/...a9edd8ed3574b6

Hello folks,
if any of you boys should ever go for your instructors badge one of the big phrases you will learn from your anglers code of conduct section is "never belittle any angler"
so come on boys,lets stick together!with the way things are these days with the antis
and stuff we need to encourage each other and help each other out.
If we fish river or stillwater and we catch,with whatever method,cool!keep an open
mind.
tight lines!
gary.

From another recent thread:


Well?


Why?

That post sounds like an advertisement feature written by the owner