Foremark Trout Fishery 2012

Contact: 01283 703202

Foremark opens for the 2012 season on 1st March 2012 with the main gate, lodge & bank fishing available from 7.30am & boats from 8.30am

Foremark over the past few seasons has fished consistently well with the bank anglers enjoying excellent especially during the opening weeks

Foremark this year will be hosting a Lexus Individual Heat on Sunday 17th June,

Permits

1 Fish £15.00 ------ Oap/Disabled £13.50

3 Fish £20.00 ------ Oap/Disabled £18.00

6 Fish £25.00 ------ Oap/Disabled £23.50

Last 4 Hour 1Fish £10.00 ----- Oap/Disabled £9.50

Boats

Full Day Boat 2 anglers £20.50

Full Day Boat 1 angler £17.50

Part Day Boat £14.00

Last 4 Hour Boat £10.00

Three Day Package

Can be split between Foremark & Draycote

2 Anglers + Boat + 1 Fish Permit + Catch & Release £145.00

2 Anglers + Boat + 8 Fish Permit + Catch & Release £180.00

Competition & group bookings discounts available, contact Fishery Manager Richard Pearson for further details

Ifor Jones
Manager

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Foremark Reservoir

Opens 1st March

Lodge & Main Gate Open 7.30am

Bank Fishing 7.30am Boat Fishing 8.30am

Contact The Lodge 01283 703202

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Foremark started the season well with 105 rod for the day catching a total of 1112 fish for a rod average of 10.5. best fish of the day fell to Mr Reid 5lbs rainbow.A srinkle of browns have also been taken. best flys blk/green tadpoles, cats whisker, blobs,and for the better fish buzzers. for boat bookings contact the lodge on 01283 703202.

Richard fishery manager

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Foremark fishing report weekending 4.3.12

Total rods for the week: 223, Total fish caught: 1,882, total number of fish released: 1,374 Rod average: 8.4

The season started on Thursday 1st March

A busy first day with 105 rods enjoying a tremendous opening days fishing with 1,112 fish being caught to a variety of methods form sinking line and boobies to floating line and buzzers.

The banks have fished best around Flamingo bay and the sailing club bay with intermediate lines teamed up with Cat’s Whiskers or Damsels. Bramble bay and Carvers arm have produced the better fish with a good head of over wintered fish showing, mainly to buzzers and small nymphs in the afternoons. The best areas for the boats has been the cascade and bramble bay fishing into the banks. Both pontoons have fished well.

Mr M. Reid, Mr G. Mann and Mr S Wilson all caught 5lbs rainbows and Mr S. Wilson also added a nice 2lbs 8oz Brown to his bag.

Lodge opens from 7.30am
Boats from 8.30am
For more up to date information contact the fishing lodge on 01283 703202.

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Foremark still fishing well with plenty of fish showing in flamingo bay and verdens point. cats whisker, damsels and boobies doing well buzzers are starting to work latter in the day. rod average is currently 5.3 for 90 rods.
For more details contact the lodge on 01283 703202.
Richard

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Whats the average size of the fish coming out?

vinny

Half of the stock gone in so far were 2lb - 4lb+
The other half were 1lb8oz - 1lb 12oz

The next stocking they are averaging 1lb 12oz

The stocking after that 3lb+

The 2012 stocking programme is going to be the same as 2011 which went down well last year.

Ifor

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Hello IFor thanks for getting back to me. You say last year went down well. yes catches may have been good but the size of fish which bothers us. in 2010 your stocking was imaculate the size of fish being pulled in were monsters. many between 4-6lb, the fishing was fantastic.
Then in 2011 you stated you was taking on draycote and we was told stocking would be the same next year for foremark. So as usuall me my dad brother and friends who took me on different trips fished foremark in 2011 and the fishing was no way near as good the year before.
The trout was small and we struggled to find the bigger fish unlike the year before. I asked you why the trout were smaller on here and you said because of the price the fish which made you buy smaller ones. yes we understand that price rises and so on but we feel foremark is being dimised because you are now running draycote and the fish that are going in there. We would rarther pay more to catch bigger fish even though tickets have risen.

Dont get me wrong Ifor we love foremark fishery the White family have fished it for many years as we will carry on doing. We just feel since you took on draycote foremark has suffered in fish size.

Vinny & Family

Rod numbers at Foremark for 2011 only dropped by around 300 & thats with me taking on Draycote, it would seem the majority of rods who we picked up from Draycote when it closed stayed with Foremark.

Smaller average size, than 2010 then yes but its no secret I have told the customers why prices went up & to keep the same volume of fish going through we reduced the average size from 2lb+ to 1lb14oz with a good number of 3lb+ fish going through.

Dismissing a fishery cant occur, they are a business, but as a business we need to run them to what we beleive the customer wants / and is prepared to pay. Yes I can stock more 3lb+ fish but would the customers be prepared to pay.

We firmly as did the near 7000 rods who fished Foremark last year beleive it offers good value for money. A full day motor boat for two rods £20.50 find a midland reservoir that matches that price.

Last year & the year before Foremark was amongst the top averaging fisheries in the midlands, Rod average 2010 was 4.6 last year just over 4 that consistant, and a better rod average than Draycote.

With a new long lease I can push ahead with improving the facilities, boats will start to be replaced from 2013, with over £10,000 been spent upgrading the pontoon this year.

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keep up the good work ifor i for one have not been dissapointed whenn i have fished at foremark and good to hear that boats are been replaced