5/16/2023 0 Comments Play pals i am fish![]() ![]() It was fish after fish action right the way through the drift. ![]() Both guests still on a booby basher, one fishing a Tequila booby and blob, and the other fishing a Tequila blob, and Biscuit/yellow fab on the point. We moved from here after landing 6 fish, into Church Bay, starting in front of the harbour wall, drifting towards the church. The first 6' from the fly line, thus getting deep, and my 2nd fly on the end, 10' away.(a good space is recommended as to not spook the fish) My fly choice is a Tequila Blob, and Tequila Booby, and absolute unbeatable pairing, and so it proved once more !! My number one approach to find the early season fish, is two flies on a 16' leader. We had certainly bumped into a good head of fish here! After several drifts into the corner of the dam, we never moved a fish, so we edged our way along the Normanton shore, still fishing the booby basher and single humungous lures.Īs we approached the vicinity of the 'blue pipes' our lines started tightening, just 20 yards off the shore. Here the fish tend to hang off the dam wall, or run along the Normanton shore line. We moved from here to Fantasy Island(south shore corner of the dam) another known early season stocking area. They can be up to 80yds out, if the water depth is up to 12-15', right into the shore ! Recently stocked fish do tend to stay within 8 -12' of water so following shore lines is a very good start, especially banks with the wind bowing into them ! Whitwell Creek is a main early season stocking point.(where the Rutland Belle boat is moored) and the fish are going to be in the area, somewhere, so numerous drifts in the area is the way forward to locate them. Within 10 minutes we hit our first fish, fishing a single humungous lure. I had both of my guests fishing on a booby basher line, and my reasoning is that it doesn't hang around getting down, and for me, its the perfect starter for early season from a boat, and especially after a sharp frost that morning. We set our first drift, 80yds just off the left of the mouth of Whitwell Creek(North Shore). Early season stock fish are released in the same areas year in, year out, and this only starts to vary, once the water levels drop, and access becomes a problem, therefore you can get the odds heavily on your side from the off, if you know where to look ! I am about to tell you where ! Rutland, however you may look at it, is a huge vast amount of water, and get it wrong and it can seem a lonely place at times. ![]()
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