hi folks
how will i tell when a fish is "overwintered" compared to a normal rainbow.

On Rutland and Grafham the early season, overwintered rainbows tend to be longer, leaner fish with well-mended tails. You will often also see silver rays extending from the body into the tail.

Graham

many thanks graham, look foward to getting a few then, when all this snow stuff goes away

It's not an overwintered fish until the winter is, errrr....... over! It's hardly even started yet!

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just wanted an answer to my question. thats all!

If you fish small stillwaters then true overwintered fish are about as common as rocking horse s**t. If you fish the larger reservoirs then you have more chance of meeting up with one of these characters which are to stockies as summer is to winter. Fish Farmoor a time or two, especially F1, and you'll soon see the difference.

The problem is telling the overwintered fish from the grown on (this seasons) fish.The bottom fish is this season's, caught at Grafham just before Christmas.It has developed silver fin and tail rays (and nearly doubled its weight)but its tail isn't as developed as the top fish.Don't let the snow put you off daddypuss, the rainbows I was catching this December were feeding harder than they will be early season.

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