FISHING AT ROSE PARK
Address: Rose Park Fishery, Trezibbet, Altarnun, Launceston, Cornwall.Directions: Take the A30 from Launceston towards Bodmin. Turn off for Altarnun and follow signs to Aitarnun. Travel through Altarnun passing the church. The fishery is sign posted on your left.Phone: 01566 86278Fishery: The fishery is in a valley surrounded by trees. There are two lakes in the fishery totalling 2.5 acres. Both are very clear and fairly deep in parts with depths of up to 20ft. I could see no buildings other than the fishery hut.Stocks: Rainbows and browns with triploid rainbows in Winter. When I fished the water I would have guessed the average at just over 2.25lb. However there are wild brownies present. These are magnificent creatures that appear to grow much faster than their brethren in the moorland streams. No doubt the richer feeding in the fishery suits them. These wild browns have grown on to over three pounds. Small wild browns should be returned.Facilities: There is a fishery hut and W.C. It is possible for wheelchair anglers to get to most swims and tuition can be arranged.Ticket Prices: No catch, no charge! First fish costs £4 plus £1.65 per lb. Thereafter each fish charged at £1.65 per lb. The exception is for brown trout that are charged at £2.05 per lb. Fishery records: Rainbow 131b, brown 91b 5oz and wild brown 31b 7oz.
FISHING AT ROSE PARK
Although I have had now time to fish Rose Park this year, I was most impressed with it when I fished the venue in the past.As Rose Park is in Cornwall, I have had to fish it when on holiday which limited the amount of tackle that I could take with me. I used a Shakespeare 9ft Travel fly rod with a fly reel loaded with an intermediate A.F.T.M. number 6 fly line with a 14ft leader of 41b. As the water was so clear and there was a nasty cold breeze on the water, I reasoned that the fish would be below the surface taking small flies.I walked down to the second lake which is the larger of the two and fished the far bank where the wind was blowing gently into it. It felt colder that I had originally thought so a size 14 gold bead hairs ear nymph was selected to get down deep. After an hour without a pull, the fly was changed for a straight size 14 gold ribbed hairs ear without a gold bead. On the second cast, I had a take that resulted in a nice rainbow of about three pounds. Several casts later I had another slightly smaller rainbow, then nothing for an hour. Then I had another rainbow of about 2.5lb.After catching those three rainbows, I decided to change tackle to a A.F.T.M. number 5 floater with a 3lb b.s. leader to a size 18 gold ribbed hairs ear. I covered a small rise and almost immediately had a take. This resulted in another rainbow of about three pounds that gave a terrific account of itself on the light tackle.I was about ready to pack up as I had been an hour without a take, when I had another pull that resulted in an absolutely perfect wild brown of about 6oz. I quickly admired the fish in the net and unhooked it in the water to grow on.
Other visits to Rose Park have proved it to be a very consistent fishery that can offer some interesting and challenging fishing. In colder weather, I have done much better fishing deeper down with slightly larger fly patterns