Sharpley Springs Fishing Report

How's it Fishing
Warm days at the start and end of the fishing week saw hawthorns on the water- and the trout were quick to home in on them. 
Big fish this week were caught by Jack Hodgson from South Shields at 15 pounds on a Black Fritz. David Todd from Gateshead used a Black Hopper to bring to the net, lucky  13 fish with the biggest a 13lb 8oz Trout.
Jake Caidecott from Seaham a 15 pounder and Tom Reay a from Seaham a 14 pounder and Dan Swale with the biggest at 16lbs 2oz. 
Plenty of big bags netted with Ant Meadows from Chopwell and Barry Nicholson from Guidepost both  releasing 17 Trout each . Lewis Meek from Newcastle caught 25 and Ben Race from Great Ayton released the best bag of the week with 28 fish using all dries. 
An excellent week with more to come.

Tactic
Warm days at the start and end of the fishing week saw hawthorns on the water- and the trout were quick to home in on them. Low slung patterns gained favour towards the end of the week whilst higher sitting flies like black hoppers were good in a stiff breeze when the unfortunate naturals found themselves on the water. Tippets needed to be beefed up a bit too!
Sharpley also saw several midge species including those huge blacks that leave shucks more than an inch long!
Afternoons had hatches of up-winged olives ,so flies of the hares ear family were worth a place on the cast. Shuttles,f's and nymphs all worked.
Some of the evening sessions were prolific.
An excellent week with more to come.

Fly box:
Olive shuttlecock
Black shipmans
Hares ear foam head
GRHE nymph
Hawthorn
Knotted midge
Daddylonglegs
Black spider
Zonkers 
Blobs/tinnies
Black f fly