Im going to have a blast on scout dyke resevoir tommorrow.

Does anyone know how its fishing at the moment?

Has it been stocked yet this season?
What level are the fish in the water?
What techniques are fishing well?

I was probably going to fish using Di line and booby techniques.

Thanks

Well heres the report if anyone else is thinking of going here :

It lashed it down all day, a good 50 people were fishing the resevoir, mainly on fly, although there was a tuition session going on for a group of people by the ticket house.

The resevoir is very high, meaning many of the areas on the near side of the bank (to the carpark) were shallow, consisting of a gentle slope of flooded grass for a good few feet out. Most people seemed to be fishing these areas with buzzers, but whether it was the distrubance from the sheer numbers of people fishing here or that the water was simply still too cold to invite trout into this shallow water, I only saw 2 trout caught here, both by bait fishermen casting very far out.

The other side of the resevoir was a different story altogether. Most people avoided walking here due to the rain, i guess, but the steep sloping banks straight into deep water seemed to be where the fish were. Long casts were the order of the day and although i tried naturals I resorted to fishing boobies on HiD line and a 4 foot leader. Most takes came 20+ yards out, at about 12" above the bottom. I had to resort to getting the fly out and simply laying the rod down for 5 mins to make sure the line was lying along the bottom.

Slow retrieves provided some almighty takes with the fish taking the boobies right down their throat. A roving aproach worked well and after 5 or so casts in one spot a change in boobie colour often resulted in a take immediatly with the new colour. (I suspect trout didnt like seeing the same lure stripped past them over and over).

The absolute killing colour was Green fritz and white Marabou. Unusually i did not have a simgle take on the usual orange lures that fish so well mid season.

All in all if you are prepared to move about and not just plug away near the carpark the water was fishing well, but required constant moving and lure changing.

I fished with my father for 2 1/2 hours from 11am till 1.30pm between us we had around 9 fish. Including a 4lb 2ounce beautiful silver over wintered fish.

I did not see another fish taken on the fly while I was there, although everyone was fishing a more purist approach of floating line and teams of wets.

Hope this helps people

Thanks Guppy, I've bee thinking about going as it's not a million miles away from me. Will give it a try one evening once the light improves.

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Don't forget the new rules, no hook larger than size 12

Paul

New rules?

This is news to me, having said that the guy I bought my ticket from had no ticket book on him so had to scribble it on a piece of paper for me. (He didnt actually give me a proper ticket until i was packing up leaving).

Guess I was breaking the rules then since I tie all my lures to size 10 hooks.

You sure about these new rules? Just the youngsters on the nearside bank were throwing huge Cats whiskers about (guessing size 6's?) also there were a couple of people fishing large Mepps spinners that must have been more than size 12's.

Whats the reckoning behind this new rule, they seem to be quite open on other aspects when it comes to rules (bait fishing, spinning, feeders etc all seem to be allowed). I always switch to barbless after I have caught the fish I am keeping but surley enforcing the beginners, who all fish lures, to use size 12 hooks is simply going to mean they will use minilures, with eyes too small to take their usual 6-8lb leader, switching to thinner leader and resulting in more smash offs and fish left trailing huge lenghs of nylon from their mouths?

Rules are rules but as it is a beginner water I would have though the emphasis would have been on people actually landing fish and unhooking them, rather than smashing off, ripping hooks from mouths etc.

Or maybe the rule was changed due to the unsporting use of large lures? I cant see this as spinners are used on the water.

Either way, as I said rules are rules *slopes off to re-tie his entire scoutdyke fly box, mumbling*