Author: taclub

05.06.24

Club member Tim with his superb 6lb (weighed and witnessed!) brown trout. Fantastic work, Tim!

24.05.24

Last October, the club was delighted to host the superb fisherman and artist, Charles Jardine, who gave us instruction both on the river and at nearby Tanfield Lodge Lake. It was a pleasure to witness his artful casting first-hand, and Charles was the picture of patience when trying to instruct us to do the same. Thank you Charles!

Charles pictured with club member Bill at Tanfield Lodge Lake.

18.5.24

The good weather over the weekend has seen sporadic Mayfly hatches begin on the river, and turning over a few rocks has revealed an abundance of nymphs waiting to hatch. We should be in for an excellent Mayfly season!

The photograph above shows club member Tim enjoying some sport on Hatchery Flats.

Yet another day of hard work. Volunteers, ably lead by Bobby, the River Keeper and Stewart, the club Secretary, felled trees and cleared the river bank ‘at the top end’. Two weirs were built into the hatchery water supply to help prevent solids from entering the ponds and all were sustained by pork pies and jaffa cakes. The next working party will be on 22nd June 2019.

We had a fantastic Working Party day in June and have dramatically improved access to several hundred metres of fishing above the Lodge to the extent that we are looking at a series of further steps down the bank. We also increased pork pie and Jaffa Cake consumption substantially! We finished at 16.00 (all completely knackered!) so we’d like to finish off a section on the 23rd June, 0900 at the Hatchery.
We’d also like to organise a further day on the 15th September (same deal on pie and Jaffa Cake bribery).

Volunteers got into action to do some work at the Hatchery. They tidied up the ground works after sorting out pipes. It is planned to turf this area and has already been dubbed ‘Stewart’s Lawn’! Hopefully this will be resplendent for the planned Hog Roast in the summer. However on this occasion the 9 volunteers were suitably  nourished with Pork pies and jaffa cakes!

Members joined together at the hatchery for a wonderful hog roast in July.  We were able to see all the improvements that the working party had achieved along with meeting Bobby, the river keeper and his girlfriend. Fortunately the weather was kind, the rain keeping off until later.