We have recently benefitted from an advisory visit from the Wild Trout Trust. The advice will be carefully considered with a view to doing what we can to improve the habitat for wild trout.

One key recommendation is to report all pollution incidents, including discoloured or foul smelling output from the sewage works.

If you are aware of any pollution incident please be sure to report the incident to the Environment Agency Pollution Prevention Hotline: 0800807060. Please record the incident reference number and report this to the club secretary.

All pollution incidents, large or small are damaging to fish and fly life. We may not see dead fish but if the fly life is being damaged this will affect the ability of the river to support Brown Trout and Grayling.

 

 

 

 

The latest information from the EA upstream fish counters at Framwellgate weir show that 2587 fish have passed upstream during the month of June.

This shows an increase on last year and a substantial improvement on previous. If you’re out there fishing for Salmon or Sea-Trout please be sure to let us know how you do.

For your convenience you will find a link to the EA and other useful pages at the side of this page. This includes weather forecasts, river levels,  monthly and daily upstream fish counts, and catch return information. All anglers fishing for Salmon and Sea-Trout are required to complete a catch return at the end of each season, you may want to keep track as you go.

Tight Lines.

 

At 1lb 140z this is yet another great fish taken on Willington &District Angling Club waters.

The winner of the 2016 Dr Chesters’ Senior Competition ( sponsored by Anglers’ Lodge at Jubilee Lakes) is Trevor Conway who weighed in this superb 1lb 14oz Brown Trout taken on fly during this years competition.

The competition was well attended but Trevor took the honours.

 

To fish this competition , this Sunday, for the Dr Chesters’ Trophy ( sponsored by Anglers Lodge at Jubilee Lakes) please meet at Jubilee Car Park for a 3:00pm start.

We would like your views please.

Some anglers are not entering club competitions or entering fish for club trophies because they prefer full catch and release. We are aware of an excellent salmon last season which was not entered for this reason and recently at least two juniors did not fish the junior competition because they did not wish to kill fish.

To be clear, there is no intention to introduce compulsory C&R but the club does encourage anglers to return wild fish unharmed and in the case of Brown Trout would encourage anglers to kill only fish marked with a black spot (the stockies).

A few ideas have been discussed such as a time stamped photograph clearly showing the length of a fish and change from weight to length to decide winners. One benefit of this is that it would allow any salmon caught before June 16th to be entered as the earliest and/or largest migratory fish of the season.

Currently a fish would need to be verified by a committee member with the scales used being calibrated against a set held by the secretary for accuracy and consistency.

Please let us have your thoughts; what system would you suggest?

The senior completion this weekend will take place under the existing rules but is it possible to have something better in place for next season?

 

Please note.

The social event with Guest speaker planned for July 14th at Willington Cricket Club has needed to be postponed.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

The Dr. Chesters Senior Competition (Sponsored by Angler’s Lodge at Jubilee Lakes) : For the largest fish caught takes place this coming Sunday.

Last years winners : Paul Myers and Ronnie Featherstone each with a Brown Trout of 1lb 6oz. Sharing the prize donated by our web-site sponsor Angler’s Lodge at Jubilee Lakes: £100 of vouchers each.

Paul and Ronnie won £100 worth of vouchers for Angler’s Lodge, kindly donated by the sponsors Angler’s Lodge at Jubilee Lakes.

The Dr. Chesters  Senior Competiton: Sponsored by Anglers Lodge at Jubilee Lakes : Takes place this weekend, the 1st Sunday in July : 3:00pm to 8:00pm.

( The 2015 winners shared £200 of vouchers for Angler’s Lodge kindly donated by our sponsors).

Anglers please meet at Jubilee Car park for a 3:00pm start.

 

 

 

Anglers up and down the country are slowly learning about the different habits and effects of stocking Triploid in place of Diploid fish.

We need your feedback to understand what is happening on our waters, we need to understand the effects of Triploid fish on the river and on angling.

The club has completed stocking for the year, 250 Triploids have gone in in two batches. What is your experience. Are you catching these fish? What methods are working? Bait, worm, nymph, wet fly, dry fly?

The stockies are marked with a black spot, this may be central or further forward towards the gills. Please let us have any feedback possible, it is important.