ferox

[zodiac]

It's on a memory card somewhere, I'll try find it over the wknd.

[andrew_nagel]

One from this season. Took at trolled Ernie in 35' of water.

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[fergie68]

Wow that been eating well.

[nigel savage]

One from this season. Took at trolled Ernie in 35' of water.

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That's got some "Shoulders" on it Andrew, superb fish

[fergie68]

What would that fish have been eating Andrew.
It has the look of a fish that has a easy life. Massive bait shoals around maybe.

[andrew_nagel]

There's loads of prey in the lake system this one comes from. This particular lake is listed as holding something like 25 fish species. I suspect they eat all the small coarse fish like roach, rudd, bream, perch, helt (similar to powan) etc. I've had them cough up roach and sticklebacks in the net. The shoals of prey fish can be 100's of meters long when I pick them up on the sonar.

[fergie68]

A large shoal of bait fish on the surface attracted the gulls who attracted my attention so I trolled the area.

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[fergie68]

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[Nobby C]

Absolute beauties there Fergie.

[andrew_nagel]

Lovely fish Fergie. Nice dark colouring. Are you catching them on naturals or lures?

[fergie68]

Same fish nobby I f****d up the pics as usual.

That fish took a lure about 20ft down on the rigger Andrew.
Baits were ignored that day.

[davelumb]

You say the bait fish were on the surface. Had trout pushed them high?

I ask because one day many years ago I watched a big (I thought it was a double figure pike until it cleared the water) brown hammering a shoal of roach on the surface of a local upland ressy. That was over fifteen to twenty feet of water.

[fergie68]

I'd say so Dave.
Maybe ambush from below.
And I broke the golden rule if you get one hammer that area cos there will be more. But like a chump and wanting to play with my new GPS chartplotter I trolled on. DOHHHH
I went back later and they were gone.
Funny how when trolling through or around bait shoals it's more often than not the lure rods that gets hit. Maybe that lure is just something a bit different more vibes etc and stands out. So gets hit.

[davelumb]

I'd say so Dave.
Maybe ambush from below.
And I broke the golden rule if you get one hammer that area cos there will be more. But like a chump and wanting to play with my new GPS chartplotter I trolled on. DOHHHH
I went back later and they were gone.
Funny how when trolling through or around bait shoals it's more often than not the lure rods that gets hit. Maybe that lure is just something a bit different more vibes etc and stands out. So gets hit.

[nigel savage]

Superb fish Fergie looking forward to an assault on the Rutland Browns again.
Thought you might like these images from the Harbour last year, they were feeding on Roach & Perch.

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[Mobo4pike]

Superb fish Fergie looking forward to an assault on the Rutland Browns again.
Thought you might like these images from the Harbour last year, they were feeding on Roach & Perch.
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Awesome pics there

[fergie68]

Now that is amazing. How were those pics taken.

[Mark_Houghton]

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Cracking fish

[fergie68]

Cheers Mark.

Dave. When you fished that big northern lake did you ever encounter any of the ferox.

[davelumb]

Cheers Mark.

Dave. When you fished that big northern lake did you ever encounter any of the ferox.

I didn't, but I heard of one caught. There were a couple of double figure rainbows reported too. The rainbows must have been the last of the stockies from a brief spell as a trout fishery many years previously, but there were always brownies which bred in the feeder stream.

[Will Smith]

One from this season. Took at trolled Ernie in 35' of water.

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Crikey Andrew !
She look like she has been on steroids, very fat trout.

Will.

[nigel savage]

Now that is amazing. How were those pics taken.

Hiya Fergie,
The Browns were hammering the fry. in the shape of Perch/ Roach around 4" towards the end of the year.
The GO PRO camera is normally hooked onto one of the boat cleats on the pontoon, and is left to it's on device while we are taking the boats off the water to be cleaned.

One afternoon i missed a massive oppuntunity as not only the trout, including rainbows, but the resident harbour Mallards were ploughing through the fry as well, with at times the trout litterally following behind, complete mayhem/carnage if you were a small fish!

Two more images, the first a good group of specimen browns filmed two winters ago under the pontoon, looking somewhat like sea trout making their way up a river, the other image is my first attempt this season for the browns with rod and line,and first fish being this 6lb 10oz fish (returned)

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[fergie68]

Some fish Nigel. Looks like those pontoons are the place to be.. Rutland looks like a pretty healthy environment for all the fish. Especially those big predator brownies.

[davelumb]

Now that is amazing. How were those pics taken.

Hiya Fergie,
The Browns were hammering the fry. in the shape of Perch/ Roach around 4" towards the end of the year.
The GO PRO camera is normally hooked onto one of the boat cleats on the pontoon, and is left to it's on device while we are taking the boats off the water to be cleaned.

One afternoon i missed a massive oppuntunity as not only the trout, including rainbows, but the resident harbour Mallards were ploughing through the fry as well, with at times the trout litterally following behind, complete mayhem/carnage if you were a small fish!

Two more images, the first a good group of specimen browns filmed two winters ago under the pontoon, looking somewhat like sea trout making their way up a river, the other image is my first attempt this season for the browns with rod and line,and first fish being this 6lb 10oz fish (returned)

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That underwater shot is great, Nigel.

Your brown ain't too bad either.

[fergie68]

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[fergie68]

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6.2lb (deadbait)

6.8lb(deabait)

10lb (cut plug)
Lovely day but very very cold.

[andrew_nagel]

Cracking days fishing Fergie, in fantastic looking scenery too!

[Mobo4pike]

Braw troot neebs

[davelumb]

Belters.

[pete webster]

Crackers Fergie