For a change i decided to fish Eyebrook and give Rutland a miss for once
Arrived at mid-day to a bright warm day with a very light breeze and fish seemed to be rising all over the main basin at the dam with quite few fry bashing closer to the shore.
I fished a drift on the far shore of the dam from the lodge,sorry i don't know the names of the areas on Eyebrook!! and was into a fish with almost every cast!!
I kept the first 4 rainbows,3lb4oz,2lb8oz,2lb 4oz and 1lb 7oz. and returned another 9 all caught on a fast glass with a sparkler boobie on the point,black Diawl Bach on the middle dropper and a red halo Diawl Bach on the top dropper.
Everyone else seemed to be fishing either minkies or cats whiskers on a slow intermediate and catching steadily.
Moved into the main basin later on and got a treble hook up!!! My first ever although the fish in question were not Rainbows but perchthe one on the boobie was cracker of about 2lb bringing them in i noticed at least 10 others all following,spectacular sight to see
All in all a great day out.
Might return again in a few weeks

sounds like a great day.well done.

jim

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Sounds like you had a cracking day Boab.......and from looking at your avatar, a great weekend.

Paul

Cheers Jim,yes it was a good day thanks and Barrzy it has been a great weekend

Hi Big Boab

We had a party of 5 down there last week. We fished Rutland, Grafham, Pitsford and 2 days on Eyebrook. The fishing on Eyebrook was brilliant, as you say fish everywhere in the main basin. We found that they would take anything as long as it was fast, blobs, boobies and cats fished on floaters to ghost tips. The fish were all in excellent nick and even the smaller 1 1/2 lb fish gave a good account of themselves.

Can't wait to get back down there next year.

Kenny

I was surprised really because about 3 weeks ago the fishing was **** but then most places in the Midlands weren't fishing too good either
As i said i will be back in 2 weeks time after i return from Scotland