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Rutland Water Fly Fishing 01572 722422 rob@rutlandflyfishingadventures.co.uk |
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| August 28th and September is just around the corner and I'll be looking forward to some great Autumn fishing. As August ends with torrential rain and high winds we can look back on some excellent days with lovely clients. Some days, the trout haven't played the game, yet on others we have had some great catches. Pictures speak louder than words so have a look at these lucky people, with Rutland FlyFishing Adventures! |
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A beautiful August evening fishing on Rutland Water's North Arm, overlooking the Hambleton Peninsula
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15th
August. Some lovely dry fly fishing at the top of the North Arm with
large quality fish. The main basin has switched on this week, so we may
be looking at some more consistent fishing now.
It was good to make well-known anglers Simon Kidd and John Horsey welcome here at lakeside this week. They joined the team of celebrities to fish in the 'Help For Heroes' competition held yesterday on Rutland Water. Also fishing were John Wilson, David Seaman, Martha Thomson, and the Barr twins; Craig and Iain. I was out with a guest who caught his best ....... |
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Rutland rainbow and had a real 'adventure' dodging the impressive storms
that day!!
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| See this funny video
clip from a brilliant day with Micah and Matt You always have a great
story to tell when you go with Rob's Rutland FlyFishing Adventures. Not
your usual fuddy-duddy fishing trip. ...and it's better than a slap in
the face with a wet fish..!!
AUGUST 10TH and the flyfishing has been touch over the past few weeks. Plenty of fish out there but perhaps the weather has made them reluctant to play. However our clients have had some wonderful catches, notably Martin Beesley, fishing with one of our team of expert guides caught his first trout on a dry fly, Martin is now a 'purist' fly fisherman!! Congratulations to David North for catching a fish of a lifetime from the top of the North Arm, an incredible Brown trout of almost 8 pounds |
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| July 19th:
Hot, Hot, Hot July.. wonderful to be out on the lake at this time of
year in a fantastic Summer, but the very warm, bright weather has been
making the fishing rather difficult at times. Very interesting fishing
with masses of natural food available for the trout: Damsels, Corixa,
Pin Fry, daphnia and buzzers. We had some great catches and lots of
great days out!
A very busy month here at Rutland Fly Fishing Adventures. Thanks to the National Grid for making the team building day such fun! The BBC came to Barnsdale this month when Rob taught Kylie Pentalow BBC East Midlands lovely anchorwoman to fly fish see more click here. Rob appeared at the Bedfordshire County Show this month, demonstrating casting and teaching some willing volunteers! See more click here
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Kylie Pentalow from the BBC learns fly fishing from Rob Waddington |
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Rob Waddington demonstrating the snake roll cast at the Bedfordshire county show in July 2010 |
The Lodge Barnsdale North Shore Rutland Water, Rob's Rutland Fly Fishing Adventures on the water's edge. Where your adventure begins........... |
| 18th June, I'm just back from a trip to Russia, flyfishing for Atlantic Salmon. What a fantastic Adventure. Pictures speak louder than words, so listen to these pictures!! We're having great sport on Rutland Water now, watch this space for amazing pictures... |
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If you'd like to join me for a trip to this wonderful place next year, contact Rob on rob@flyfishingadventures.co.uk see http://www.varzuga.com/search?updated-max=2010-06-12T19:09:00+01:00&max-results=7 |
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| 3rd June,
Sweltering conditions here on Rutland Water making it lovely to be out
on the lake but also making the fishing tricky. We had some great times
recently, Asgoo and Georgia, Neil & Joe had a super day. Richard &
Lionel, Bob and Phil had great days also..
....."Thank you for
your message, it was great to meet you also, both Lynne and I had a
wonderful time and the lesson you gave us in the morning
was excellent. We have had fly fishing lessons before but nothing to
match the one we had with you, you made it so interesting and
informative making things both easy to understand and practical.
The afternoon you gave us fishing
Rutland water in a boat was also a new experience for us using
different types of methods and with the added bonus of actually
catching some trout..............
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.....I can only say you gave us a fantastic day and I would recommend the experience to anyone, you gave us a lot of good memories to take away. Thank you once again! Very Best Wishes Lynne and Kevin Moody" This sort of feedback makes it all worthwhile, thanks everyone ! |
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| 29th May 2010. If you want to know how to tell a grown-on fish from a fresh stockie, look at the tail. If you see pearl flecks along the tail fin ribs, its been in the lake a long time and it'll fight like a tiger, look amazing and taste superb. We've been seeing some beautiful sunsets this week, see pics here. |
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| 24th May and we're basking in hot sun, low winds and temperatures higher than in Spain! May hasn't always been like this, cold North East winds have cut us to the bone during most of the month. However the fishing has been excellent, in fact right up until the hot weather arrived last Tuesday morning 18th the catches have been incredible, Col Breeze originally from Birmingham but been living 24 years in Australia came over for a guiding session with me, and what a day that was... sailing club bay fishing with buzzers we had a bonanza! 'Jeez mate! These fish fight better than wild Tasmanian Brownies!' said Col as he landed fish after hard fighting fish. Martin Beesley had a similar day earlier that week, then went with one of my expert guides to an 'on-form' Grafham Water and caught 14 fish for 48 pounds! Grafham has been fishing incredibly well, a party of Scots staying at my B&B had 2 Red Letter Days last week in the hot sunny conditions. |
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One thing about Rutland FlyFishing Adventures is you ALWAYS have a great time!!! ..... |
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| Dear Rob Just a quick message to say thanks again for a fantastic day. It was perfect: good weather, superb hospitality, great company and most of all fantastic teaching - and we even managed to catch some fish. I also want to thank you for all the tips and advice - as I said you have a real gift as a teacher and I hope I will be able to put some of your good advice into practice. It was lovely to meet you and Alex and thanks for your patience even in the face of my muppetry. Good luck for the rest of the summer and have a great holiday. My wife Glenys also sends her thanks for making her birthday present very special. Ian Duce. Associate Professor School of Biology, University of Nottingham. |
| 29th April. Nearly May already and the fishing and coaching has been really great this month. We had some brilliant days with beginners and experienced anglers alike. A few really good group days and a superb corporate team building event see corporate page, click here. The fishing has been wonderful from the boats and hit & miss from the banks. With guests on the boats we've caught loads of great trout on buzzers, nymphs and sparklers (using the rudder) and the 'bung' (indicator) method has been working a dream. |
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I caught my first trout of the year on a dry fly on 17th April, a beautiful, powerful 4.5 pound overwintered Rainbow, this is what Rutland FlyFishing Adventures is all about! Well done to all catching their first ever trout on fly this month. Young Dov from London, the 3 young lads from Oundle, memories to last forever! Simon Denny from Northampton had his first trout on buzzers and Ed and the lads from Newark and London had a brilliant 'lads' birthday day out. Mansell Construction Services, Nottingham & Derby had their annual team building day with Rutland Fly Fishing Adventures and caught a mighty load of trout and celebrated into the night at the Barnsdale Lodge Hotel with a private dinner. I joined them for the prize giving celebrations, a good night was had by all. |
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watch out for crocs!!!! |
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At last the weather has improved and brought Spring to Rutland Water. The fishing's improved also, with lots of trout being caught from the banks and from the boats. Old Hall Point, The Stones, Green Bank, Barnsdale Wood, Normanton all producing lots of fish with some grown on trout in the catches. I've noticed that the better grown on fish are full of corixa and there are huge numbers of these in the margins. I've changed from Green & Black and Dawsons Olive lures to Diawl Bachs and Crunchers and I'm catching more fish using this imitative approach. I saw this sign the other day, Hope it's true! |
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Rutland
Water opened its fishing today with strong, south westerly winds, but
not as cold as forecasted and many bag limits were caught in sheltered
areas. Sailing Club Bay, Stockie Bay, Whitwell all fished well. I
arrived at the Lodge to see Allan Wood from Owston in Rutland carry this
great fish into the warden's office to be weighed. Bets were laid on the
weight and Jon Marshall correctly estimated this lovely brown trout at a
magnificent 13.5 pounds! The biggest for a good few years. This is no
stock fish and was put at around 9 years old! Makes you wonder what else
is lurking in the vastness of Rutland Water, perhaps a 20 pounder? I
reckon definitely. Allan caught his fish in stockie bay on a
humungus fly and will likely win the commemorative shield for the best
fish caught on opening day, although at the time of writing, I haven't
been out as yet.....ha!! Although I took pictures on my phone, this excellent shot comes with thanks from Cliff Waters of http://www.fishypics.co.uk where you can see all the latest pics and buy from the website. |
| 1st April 2010 and the trout fishing starts today! Watch this space for the latest reports. The weather forecast isn't good and it will seem a million miles away from my recent trip to Cuba. Not a fishing holiday but I did sneak a couple of rods into the case and we had a phenomenal 2 days fishing for bonefish and tarpon. The bonefish were superb fighters and, though difficult to see (I think you need a couple of days to get your 'eye in') my lovely fiancé and I landed around 15-20 fish up to 5 pounds. Sadly I spooked my first sighted fish a mighty bonefish of over 15 pounds! Oh well, that's fishing. The tarpon fishing was a revelation, those things are beasts and after LOSING 5 huge fish up to 150 pounds, I have to take my hat off to them and try again another time., perhaps starting with some small tarpon in the 20-30pound range. One lesson I learned, don't buy cheap Japanese poppers off the internet, they chewed them up and spat the out! |
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No, that's NOT my fiancé..:) |
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