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The English Lake District
Ullswater is
In May the Lake Olives make an appearance, followed by the Green Drake
Mayfly (ephemera danica). Surface sport with
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widely regarded as the most beautiful of all the lakes in the
English Lake District. We fish here in drifting boats from mid-March until
mid-June. The duckfly hatches, though temperamental and often
short-lived, can be spectacular, bringing shoals of wild brown trout to
feeding frenzy on these distinctive grey-black buzzer pupae. Early in
the year, during calm weather, we fish with teams of nymphs, angled to the
drifting boat and retrieved slowly. In windy conditions we revert to
the traditional loch-style approach with teams of small spiders and wet
flies, sometimes with a small, dark dry fly on the top dropper to hang in
the waves...
of the nymphs or dry duns of these species can be thrilling. The
Ullswater brown trout can often be demanding, but always rewarding. The
lake rests beneath spectacular Helvelyn, at the western extreme of the Eden
system at the top of the River Eamont; it's fish are utterly wild, typical
of the trout of the entire Eden system. There is also a chance of the
capture of a schelly, a rare salmonid whitefish, which is found in very few
lakes other than Ullswater.
South-east
across the fells of Martindale Common and dramatic High Street lies
Haweswater, mysteriously hidden in a deep, spectacular valley, at the
head of which nest Golden Eagles. Here we have shore-side fishing with
small north-country spider and loch patterns of flies, hard walking over the
steeply-carved banks, and the chance of dry fly when the wild brownies, and
the real possibility of utterly wild char, move to a summer windfall of
heather flies. Haweswater is out of the ordinary, like no other lake
in England, like no other lake
anywhere. It's fishing, too, while enigmatic,
is unforgettable.
You are unlikely to catch numbers of large brown trout; but you
may catch a few trout like this with the certain knowledge that they have
never been caught before and have certainly not been the product of a trout
farm. Like everything at Wilderness Flyfishing, it is experiencing the wild.