Rutland Water fished as no other fishery in the country could possibly manage for the two day final held last weekend. On Friday, the first of the days, conditions looked hopeless as the sun blazed out of a cloudless sky and the wind grew in strength throughout the day – yet anglers caught fish consistently and at the weigh-in the rod average was a remarkable 4.59 fish per angler.
Did I just make that up or did someone else get in first? I’m not sure but whoever said it first, it has more than just an element of truth. My fishing trips this year have been far too few and I’ve decided that I must either work less or abandon the family a little…
Booking payments by most credit/debit cards. The Fishing The lakes are stocked with Brown & Rainbow Trout and Tavistock Fishery has held the ‘British Record’ for the largest cultivated Rainbow Trout at 30lb 12 oz (caught by Tony Flower from Newquay on Yellow Cat’s Whisker). The record Rainbow for the 2000 season was 26lb 10oz….
Tackle.When fishing crayfish patterns in stillwater, I only consider one line to be useful, this being either an intermediate or slow sinker depending upon personal preference. For me it is an intermediate, as we are not looking to fish deep water relatively speaking, and the slower sink rate allows a better presentation. Oddly enough, occasional…
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Barbel [Species Menu] [Barbel articles] Common name: Barbel Latin name: Barbus barbus Record weight: Nineteen pounds, taken by Tony Gibson from the River Great Ouse at Kickles Farm in the Spring of 2001. Distribution: Naturally found only in the rivers of Eastern England, which it entered during the last ice age. At this time the…
As most of you will know, carp generally move around a lot less in winter than they do in summer. So the usual advice is to fish as close to them as possible, and keep your groundbaiting patterns, if any, very tight.