20lb-plus 'trout of a lifetime' banked at northern venue

Trout don’t get much bigger than this immaculate rainbow, banked from a northern stillwater and weighing in at 26lb.

A trout to shout about!

It fell to Manchester rod Paul Gregory on a pre-lockdown visit to Rochdale’s Pennine Trout Fishery.

Andy Moran, who owns the venue, said:

“In the same week a 20lb brown trout was caught by another visiting angler, Pitor Pacholek from Bury, so it was a memorable spell!”

Both fish fell to home-tied flies, fished on floating lines. The rainbow took a green bloodworm pattern, while the brownie fell to a pattern known as the Pennine Biscuit fly – a controversial ‘fly’ resembling a trout pellet.

A 20lb brown trout was also landed from the venue recently