Good advice on the link. One thing about Deggie is that there are definite hotspots.
Going anticlockwise from the dam. There are sometimes fish deep down off the lookout position in Sailing Club Bay. Halfway up the wooded right bank are the Gabions and what you can't see at normal water levels is a spit coming out at right angles to the bank in what is otherwise deep water that holds fish. You would find it easily with a depth finder but otherwise it's guesswork. At the top right is Bill Smiths Bay which is often full of stockies but the boats know this and it is hit quite hard and goes off after a couple of hours hammering.
The inlet off the top is Green Pool and worth a look with high water levels but no good once the level drops except in the entrance where there is a great spot to find fish on pin fry in June. Watch out for pike in this area and you may also have to get through some perch to find the trout.
The North Bank can fish well and the fish are often close in on a southerly breeze. The Inlet at the top left can be good in hotter weather as the water is oxygenated and a good place to pick up a brownie. Towards the end of the season look for daddy long legs being blown in off the pasture here.
Sor Bank just starting down the left hand side is a good drift in a NE or SW breeze and can see big buzzer hatches. This is another pike hotspot.
Sor Bay is the big arm halfway down the left side and can be very good or complete rubbish. If it is fishing the very top can be good and many boats won't go this far up. A good drift is across the entrance of Sor Bay to or from Pettingale Point.
Coming further down towards the tower there are sometimes fish very close in on this bank and it rarely sees a bank angler. Your fly should almost be hitting the bank here. There are fish along the dam and quite often they can be good ones
Finally don't neglect the corner of the dam as there are often fish in this area and most boats go straight past them.
The lake gets very good buzzer hatches at this time of year and as the light fades all thoughts of hotspots go as fish rise all over the lake but Sor Bank down to Pettingale Point is particularly good.
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Last edited by sewinbasher; 11-04-2009 at 10:29 PM.
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