I' am off to Curleys tomorrow for the first time with a colleague from work. Any one know how it is fishing and which flies are working please.

We will be bank fishing.

Novice.

Not been for a while novice,but i do well there with small black/olive buzzers if you like fishing that way,or if you want it a bit more lively and like to pull em a bit faster montana ,black/black and green fritz can score well.Let me know mate how you get on i ready for a trip there myself.
cheers gary.

Went to Curleys today and only managed 2 fish despite fish rising and leaping for fun. Caught 1 on a white shipmans and one on a cdc buzzer. Every one struggled with few fish being caught.

The site it self, the cafe is fine with a decent breakfast except it does not open until 10.00. It looks like the shop is being built/refurbishid. The fishery is next to a main road so a bit noisy at times. Pontoons good to fish off except for those by the road where the back cast is limited. All pontoons were scrubbed while I was there and the fishery seems well run although I saw a couple of dead fish.

Not exactly my cup of tea being spoilt by living near the lake district, I probably will not revisit as it is a long way for me to go but it was nice to fish with my colleague from work who also managed just 2 fish.

Novice.

I went on saturday, I just about managed to get three, all to a sedge but it was hard going. I had the first two in the first 30 mins and the 3rd just before I called it a day. In between I literally didnt have a touch. Usually if its hard going using a fast int. with small buzzers on a light leader gets some response but I got didly squat. Even my fav zonker went untouched!

I notice Charles Jardine fishing Curleys from a tube, Ive not read it but no doub he caught plenty......

Hi,
I've only managed to fish Curley's once before and that was on a feature, what i will say is that it fished extremely well from the boat, a lot like Raygill. On Small deep water's such as these fish often hold out in the less pressured areas { basically in the middle } and can be found very high in the water. I used a floater and an Olive creeper and had an offer almost every cast, when the pic's were complete for the feature i spent the remainder of the day fishing the washing line, with a size 12 black hopper with a glister green butt on the point and two ultra skinny size 12 black buzzers on the dropper's, they were tied on comp.12's with a built up head and fluro orange painted eyes and silver wire rib.
I went to the bank and although my catch rate did fall in comparisen to the boats rate i still had many fish come to the buzzer's which were basically hanging static.
One other method i would recomend to target the rising fish { and it's not for the faint hearted} is the leaded sunburst blob. I've been using this to devasting effect recently. Cast a foot or two in front of the rise and draw away with longish pulls, this method can seriously increase your catch and it certainly isn't just for the stockies, resident fish will also take with confidence.
Any way back to Curley's it's certainly got plenty of fish in it and i would recomend it highly, if it were a little closer to me it would certainly be one of my regular haunts but never the less i will certainly fish it again.
regard's Fred.