Pennine Trout Farm and Fishery

Welcome to our report, news and views page. Hopefully we will be able to offer you valuable information to help you to make the most of your visit to our fishery. This page will inform you of the best tactics, the most productive flies and big fish reports. And do we have some big fish for you in 2011 with fabulous Rainbow Trout, stunning Brown Trout as well as a few Golden and Blue Trout just to keep it a bit more interesting, along with our Tagged Fish Competition which is gaining popularity as more and more fishermen win these cash prizes!

You will be able to view our Big Fish Gallery to see what you have missed, or better still, view yourself with one of our Trophy Fish! Our Big Fish are real and not fantasy, we stock them, you catch them and we photograph them. Too many fisheries claim to have Big Fish without the photographic proof. Don't be fooled by Fisheries Advertisements and claims of having Big Fish !

We have learned that without constant and excessive advertising at a great cost with fishing publications many of the best fish are left out and space is given to lesser quality fish from fisheries that do subscribe to these publications. We do understand that these publications are running a business and advertising revenue is their main source of income, but when exceptional fish are left out at the whim of someone in editorial in a nice warm office with little or no basic knowledge or understanding of the years of work and effort that goes into producing quality big fish. It leaves a bitter taste in one's mouth! It also fails to inform the fisherman as to what is really being caught in Trout Fisheries.

Your comments are welcome by e-mail. Sensible comments and replies will be listed on this page. Our email address is: amoran717@googlemail.com

After his visit Angling Times columnist Des Taylor reported in his column."While other trout fisheries have sold up,gone bust or even falsified the truth about the size of the fish in their water. Pennine has reigned supreme and constantly produced the goods."( Sold up now that's a thought Des ! offers anybody ?).

What "Today's Fly Fisher" said, First class facilities. The term immaculate takes in all the fishery from the lakes to the lodge and the toilets. A lot of fisheries up and down the country could learn a lot from Pennine they provided us with something that we want at the end of the day. More double figure leviathans (BIG FISH) than you could shake a stick at. Undercover report by the magazines editor Tim Smith and agent X undercover fly fishery investigator.

We have now installed CCTV this is for security and not for looking at you while you are fishing most of the CCTV is turned off during the day.

If you require up to the minute information on best tactics and patterns please e-mail me at: penninetrout@aol.com

Dear Fishermen would you please, please put your old leader lines in the waste bins. A little effort saves a lot of problems and pain to wildlife. Birds collect the old line for their nests. When young birds hatch it traps their tiny feet in the nest unable to fly away they die a long slow painful death. Also when the parent birds collects food line gets tangled around their feet and they then get trapped in the trees left hanging again a slow painful death. Show respect for the countryside and this wonderful wildlife that at times we all take for granted. P.S We do have over 20 waste bins around the fishery.

***CURRENT NEWS - 2012***

This year the staff at Pennine hope to continue to bring you the quality of fish that we gave you in 2011, but with the added bonus of some monster 20 pounders that we all know you love! In 2011 we produced 239 double figured fish upto 19lb (with photos) of which 52 were stunning brownies that in my opinion overall were probably the best in the country. This year we will continue 2011 trends but will spice it up with some real monsters. Stock fish will continue to be between 2.75lb to 4lb with the arrival of plenty blue trout to the end of summer. The "late evening pass" will start again at the end of April, lets just hope this summers a bit more fisherman friendly. We are releasing 14 more pass so if you are interested please contact the fishery office for details on your application. Finally from me (Andrew) and all the staff at Pennine we hope your day at Pennine is a great one, but if you are unhappy in anyway please feel free to email me with your thoughts as we all can improve. email amoran717@googlemail.com

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FISHING REPORT FOR EARLY JANUARY 2012

Very mild weather conditions have resulted in some good catch rates for anglers braving the westerly winds, with fish upto the 20lb mark being caught. Top fly patterns have been white egg flies and buzzers on a floating lines and zonkers and white dancers on intermediate lines. Fish have generally been in the 3 to 6 foot mark with the current hot spots being in the bay area on the top lake and around the cages on the lower lake. Photos starting from the left, young Daniel Grant with his first double of the season caught on a egg fly fished on the lower lake near the cages, daniel fishing with his dad also returned a further 43fish!!. Next is Morpeth angler Mr Howard Croston with a rainbow just short of 20lb caught on a white zonker fished from a sinking line, and finally is Mr Frank Callaghan from Preswick with a 18lb Rainbow caught on a cats whisker fished on a sinking line. Fish averages over the holiday period have been 11 fish per angler with a 3 fish bag limit weighing out at 13lb 9oz. The tag fish competition has paid out £165.00 over the last 8 days to 8 lucky winners. Please remember here at Pennine we continue to stock throughout the winter period with cracking fish, so if you are planning a value for money day out fishing we are your best bet throughout the northwest of England.