Rob Edmunds
Well-known member
Well after 4 days on Rutland for the Scierra Pairs Final I'm torn........
It really is a water of 3 parts at the moment.......Not easy but the rewards can be great.
The main basin to Sailing Club is full of stockies, all 1lb 6 to 1lb 8oz.....not really the fish associated with Rutland.
However both the North and South Arms have really good fish in them......not stacks, but in reasonable numbers and very difficult.
I've averaged 7 fish per day from both the arms with the average size of fish 3 to 4lb .....which is pretty special in my eyes
But you need to really work for them, and know how to catch them, or it's very very difficult
For the stockies its blobs on Tip lines, and 1 to 4ft deep..slow or static
For the big residents its fry patterns, or daddies literally over the weedbeds, "Suspender Minkies" and "Foam Daddies "are your best best bet, fished on a Midge Tip....3 or 4 sharp pulls to " pop" your flies and draw the trout in........then static for 20 seconds or so, once your flies are pulled under a slow figure of 8 back
There isn't one area thats holding numbers of big fish, so just fish the weedbeds and keep moving 100m or so fishing fresh water, even if you catch.
My best fly ( suspender perch) and best fish this weekend a brown of 10lb 10oz
Rutland hasn't suddenly become brilliant, but the back end is pretty good ( although challenging) and there are good numbers of really big fish ( 6 to 11lb) about.....I may have been a little harsh in previous posts it seems..
It really is a water of 3 parts at the moment.......Not easy but the rewards can be great.
The main basin to Sailing Club is full of stockies, all 1lb 6 to 1lb 8oz.....not really the fish associated with Rutland.
However both the North and South Arms have really good fish in them......not stacks, but in reasonable numbers and very difficult.
I've averaged 7 fish per day from both the arms with the average size of fish 3 to 4lb .....which is pretty special in my eyes
But you need to really work for them, and know how to catch them, or it's very very difficult
For the stockies its blobs on Tip lines, and 1 to 4ft deep..slow or static
For the big residents its fry patterns, or daddies literally over the weedbeds, "Suspender Minkies" and "Foam Daddies "are your best best bet, fished on a Midge Tip....3 or 4 sharp pulls to " pop" your flies and draw the trout in........then static for 20 seconds or so, once your flies are pulled under a slow figure of 8 back
There isn't one area thats holding numbers of big fish, so just fish the weedbeds and keep moving 100m or so fishing fresh water, even if you catch.
My best fly ( suspender perch) and best fish this weekend a brown of 10lb 10oz
Rutland hasn't suddenly become brilliant, but the back end is pretty good ( although challenging) and there are good numbers of really big fish ( 6 to 11lb) about.....I may have been a little harsh in previous posts it seems..