{"id":179,"date":"2009-07-12T20:17:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T19:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2009-07-12T20:17:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T19:17:56","slug":"windermere-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/places-to-fish\/flyfishingincumbria\/windermere-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Windermere Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Directions:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"> Take the A591 Crooklands  to Keswick Road from the M6 motorway and after about 16 miles you arrive at  Windermere and follow the signs to Bowness and you reach the lake. Access can be  gained at various places with public access such as Cockshott Point (near the  Glebe in Bowness). Access is available at National Trust and South Lakeland  District Council owned land. On the west side access is much more restricted as  much is private property so a boat is a big bonus as you can fish the entire  lake unhindered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">The lake is 10.5 miles long by about 1 mile wide so a very  useful publication to obtain is a lake chart available from the Lake Wardens at  Ferry Nab. This gives all the lakes depth contours, shallow shoals, bays etc and  is a must to enable you to find fishy areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Most anglers start off\u00a0 Trout fishing in March by &#8216;top lining&#8217;  which is trolling a plug, usually a Rapala<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Fly fishing can take off in April and is improving as insect  life is coming back after vast improvements to control sewerage pollution and  nitrates. Good hatches of buzzer are again occurring and often plenty of olives.  The lake also gets a genuine Mayfly hatch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Most fly fishing is sub surface with nymphs, buzzers and  tradition wet flies and early morning or evening is the best time with the fly.  It usually slows down after June until September and fly fishing is rarely easy  but fish are taken each year to 3 or 4lb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directions: Take the A591 Crooklands to Keswick Road from the M6 motorway and after about 16 miles you arrive at Windermere and follow the signs to Bowness and you reach the lake. Access can be gained at various places with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/places-to-fish\/flyfishingincumbria\/windermere-lake\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutflies.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}