Water reports - River Bollin
October 2009
This river is getting more and more productive as time progresses.
Above are the latest two caught by one of our coarse
fisherman. The happy angler is one Graham Ingham, the
fish are one cock and one hen.
Regards
Ni
May 31st 2009
The river Bollin, what more can I
say, it speaks for it self. These
images show the stretch from the bridge to the water works which, in my
opinion, is the best stretch holding chub up to 4lb and trout over 5lb
with
good bags of dace also. Using cheese flavored maggot I find this water
fishes
best late summer afternoons and because I work in Altrincham it's only
five
minuets away in an evening and gives great sport .Nigel, the bailiff,
works hard with Ernie on maintaining this water i.e.
stocking,
bailiffing, scrub clearing and feeding of the fish, to create this
little but good fishing heaven.
Peter shuff
May 16th 2009
The River bollin at Bowden is
fishing well to fly. Brown Trout showing to three pounds and small dace
plus the odd Chubb has also turned up to the fly. It may not
be a chalk stream but the Bollin has some cracking fish in it. Slide
down the low bank and cast your fly across the deep holes.
A large pike as been seen between
the road bridge and the sewage works so if you fish this stretch and it
seems a bit quiet you will know why. Peter Shuff
May 16th 2009
Bollin at Bowden
This year seems to be a little more
productive; a
couple of the regulars down here are pretty regularly taking a couple
of brownies per visit. On one occasion the fish taken was
only a youngster of 3-4 ounces which seems to point to fact that they
are breeding on the river or close by. This leads me on to
something else I've noticed over the past few months - there are a
couple of areas of gravel building up, one under the bridge and the
other on the Warrington bank opposite the
out-flow at the UU Pump Station.
In this area also there have been
reports of a pike some say in the double figures, disturbing news as
this also happens to be the area where the Dace were released in Jan of
this year. These incidentally are also rising to a dry fly on
occasion. Any further news will be forwarded as it crops up.
Nigel Rogers
December 27th 2008
Yo!
I have just received the attached
photo from Dominic, of his brother Cas, who caught this rather nice
specimen of a brown trout in the Bollin at Bowdon. Now I am
quite well aware that the game season is at a close at the moment, but
if you are fishing for course fish I'm not too sure of the effect of a
notice saying "NO TROUT" just above the hook would have. No -
joking aside to say that there has been a scarcity of reports from the
Bollin would be somewhat of an understatement, so this is a welcome bit
of Christmas news. I'm sorry but apart from the
date - 26 Dec 08 - I'm afraid I have no further details as to the
weight or length of the fish, and apart from the fact that it looks to
be healthy and was returned, obviously I can add no moore.
Ni Rogers
Game Fishery Officer
September 4th 2005
Peter
and Ellie Botham
fished the Bollin for a couple of hours
today landing three trout with average weights of two pounds. The
fish were caught on maggot feeder fishing from peg three on the
bend and casting into the centre. They found it hard going for
the first hour which could have been due to the mink they spotted
on the opposite bank. As well as the mink they had a cormorant in
the water, luckily they managed to scare the pair of them off.
Twenty minutes later they started to get bites. (it's always time
to leave when this happens). Peter feels that this water has a
lot of potential, holding much larger fish than those they caught
today, and would love to see reports and pics from
others.
July 9th 2005
One
of the reasons I
recently rejoined the Bay Malton was because they have a stretch
of the Bollin which is only ten minutes away from where I live so
nothing could be more convenient. However my first visit, a
couple of weeks ago, I did not find the place conducive and left
without exploring, Perhaps it was the mood I was in. This visit I
walked the full length of our stretch coming to the conclusion
that to fish almost anywhere you would need waders, or a very
long handle on your landing net. It could be that the Bollin is
low at the moment. I hope that is the case.
Finally I decided to fish at the car park and thought it was
going to be my day: I had three Trout in the first ninety
minutes, thereafter, nothing. When I go next I will take worms
and maggot and trot as against ledger. The only other sign I saw
of a fish was a huge orange thing (Orf?) zigzagging its way
upstream. At least the Robin kept me amused, together with a
large bird of prey circling, most of the day, some way beyond the
first bend.
For myself, I will have to reserve judgement on the river
Bollin. P.C.