It’s Thursday 2nd April and Peter Waterhouse, Kevin Appleton and myself Colin Brett made the trip up the A1 to Rutland Water for our 1st visit of the new season. We headed for Stockie bay and within a few casts PW had a fish on the hook and soon into his net. That was it for about another hour when Andy Linwood appeared and said we needed to go round to the Monument in Skyes Lane for loads of fish. Andy had “bagged” up and was on his way home but decided to pass on the whereabouts and the method.
We dutifully trotted off to the Monument where PW again hooked a fish very quickly only to lose it almost as quickly [Shame :o) ]. Upon checking his fly all he had was a curly end of Fluorocarbon line [Shame :o) ]. Kevin came along and joined us and within minutes hooked and landed a nice Rainbow. I was feeling a bit left out having no pulls at all?
I decided to up stakes and head off towards Whitwell, Peter and Kevin dropped into Stockie Bay again but nearer to the point. I went past the point and headed towards the next point where I could see a rod bent into a fish. So fishing a floating line with a couple of buzzers I at last hooked my first fish of the 2009 season!! {Hooray!!]. Peter and Kevin had joined me again and they started to get amonst them as well. Several pulls and a couple of hours later we called it a day, I had managed another 2 Rainbows while Peter added another 4 to finish with a limit. Kevin took 4 as he just missed his “”ECONOMY TICKET”" limit.
Successful flies for the day were Black, Green, Copper wire Buzzers. Peter was using his home brewed Spaniels arse Buzzer. Kevin wouldn’t disclose his winning flies as I kept taking the p!ss out of the “”ECONOMY TICKET”" he has.
Anyway it was an enjoyable afternoon and early evenings fishing. For anyone going up to Rutland, there appears to be a good number of fish on the north end of the Dam right through to Whitwell and if the wind stays in the north there should be some good catches.
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