Had a couple of days at Bewl this weekend, Saturday was opening day.

Lots of fish cruising close to the banks, mostly in shallow water with bank fishers filling up quickly. We fished from a boat and bagged up both days with Sunday a little slower to start.

Deep sinker with booby was the best choice but most used float or inter from the bank.

Would like to hear others experiences especially if using a different method.

Blue trout go like trains and are very aggressive, wont be many left if they dont learn some caution, I took 7 of 16 fish over 2 days.

I fished the Bank on Saturday at Flo's seat and into Browns with 2 friends. Weather was beautiful, gentle warm breeze, not a cloud in the sky and about 16-18 degrees. They both went out on medium sinkers, boobies/minkies and tadpoles and were quickly into fish. I stuck with floater and buzzers and had one take to their 13 fish! For some reason they just didn't take the nice stuff!

Lunchtime and a lot of p1ss taking by them (thanks guys) I put on a 40+ Di 3 and 2 boobies and limited pretty quickly, including a nice bluey of about 3lb which went like stink.

A pleasant evening in the Brown Trout and a night on Vinces sofa and out in the boat on sunday with Sir Vince of the Brooks. Despite it not really working for me off the bank. we elected to fish floaters and straight buzzers all day and hoped to pick up some overwintered fish. We didn't do the same drift twice and fished from around 7 pound Creek all the way down to rosemary, doing short drifts into the bank. Conditions were the same as Saturday and another superb day.

We limited by 3pm and again retired to the Brown trout to celebrate another great start to the season.

The fish all had food in them, mainly small dark buzzers (size 16's) and a little white daphnia up hook straight. All this years stocking and no overwintered fish which was a shame and slightly concerning.

There are fish absolutely everywhere, curtesy of the scatter stocking policy. The fish are holding within casting range of the banks (Bewl is a deep lake with steep banks and deep water in close) the boats who fished too far out were on the whole wasting their time.

If you are visiting in the next 3-4 weeks, in boats concentrate on the points/bays and fish into the bank and you won't go wrong. Bank angling at Bewl is superb at this time of the year.

tight lines,

BG.

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We fished in front of the playground and were all done by midday when the pub was calling. As BG says the fish are close in so why oh why did a group of anglers pitch up next to us and proceed to wade straight out into the fish - pushing them out to where BG's team mates were slowly drifting past. We had a dead hour apart from a few pike until I decided to get chest deep in the water and cast a long line towards the boats. Surprise surprise the line tightened up second cast. Those that had walked into the fish didn't have the advantage I had of a long spit stretching out in front of me and I didn't see one of them catch after that. I think there's a moral there for those wanting to test the new waders they got for Christmas.

Stuck with the floater all morning and all the fish were in superb condition with the biggest going around 3lbs. Found them around 3ft down. Couple of mates fished in 7lb Creek and had limits on variety of methods with the best going 7lb 5oz. They took the sinkers and boobies off after 30 minutes as it was too easy.

Cheers

Gillaroo

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A few Photos from opening weekend:

Browns inlet



A few boats at Sinfoils



Jim with a handful!


Dave relaxing after his limit



Me with a Blue trout



Vince has a relaxed fishing style!!


Anne and Adie Necci (plus dogs!)



All in all, a beautiful weekend,

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Good pics BG - amazing that they are all fully clothed with it being such a lovely warm day. Isn't it nice to be out again at last! Didn't make the BT as my driver needed to get closer to home before getting stuck into the beer. Will catch up soon.
Gillaroo
PS There are some stunning pics of Bewl on flickr.com...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/steveco...7594360345417/

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We pass this way but once and in so doing grab a handful!