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First time fishing Blackpool. 7 trout 10"-12" and 2 roach. Squirmy wormy.

I fished Blackpool due to another nearby Brook not available. I kept deferring from fishing Blackpool because of my wrong conclusion that there was not enough water in the Brook (wrongly drawn form photos and reports). However it turned out Blackpool had more water than Cannop! Another good surprise was that available space for overhead casting. Going through the tunnels was also a unique experience, which I would recommend to carry a torch. Overall, Blackpool resembled a remote beat - peaceful with no dog walkers, hikers nor cycling to be seen all day.

Started with a S14 Klinkhammer, I had 5 rises but missed them all; two just nudged the fly, two came up but turned away, only one took it firmly (after down sized to S16) but tangled with tree roots and freed itself.

I carried on with dry further up half-of-the-beat with no further success, thinking a blank would be inevitable. At the last resort, I put on a quirmmy wormy for a sake of changing something. First cast, a trout darted from nowhere and took the worm. The worm took 6 more trout and 2 roach. What a difference a fly choice made! Although the trout here were not made up by numbers, they did make up by size. The average rage size was around 10". The biggest was 12". All were quite chubby.

I will definitely fish Blackpool more next season.

7 Trout, 2 Other

Lovely day with clear water. No salmon, but caught two chub in the 4-5lb weight class .

2 Chub

Two small brownies on pheasant tail nymph, drifted down the faster water. Water level quite good, not too low. No salmon in the beat though. Booking through fishing passport was brilliant, very easy to do, able to look at each individual beat and choose the most suitable. Will certainly use again.

2 Trout

2 Trout

River very low and water temperature impacted by overnight frost and hail. Fished four swims each and found very few fish feeding even off the surface. Fish very finicky and bites few and far between.

1 Chub

River still low, barbel caught on pellet

4 Barbel

A final fish of the season. 2 to 3 hours into the darkness. Very occasional rises and no fish could be tempted with a dry fly.
There's always next year.

Low/clear water making it tricky but still caught, lots of greedy chub about!

8 Barbel, 6 Chub

A still and quiet (very quiet) autumn day. Not a fin stirred.

Working in the local area and fairly new to fly fishing. Didn’t finish work until later than expected so ended up starting around 5pm. Would love to spend a whole day here

1 Grayling