Rawlsbury is a special fishery. It allows the use of your preferred tactics rather than forcing a particular style on you.
March 1st - October 31st only
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Possible top weight Variable
The four lakes (Chapmanās, Cowleaze, Sandy and Viners) each have their own qualities and as Viners is stocked with browns for catch and release fishing there is the rare stillwater option of returning fish. These browns get smarter as the season goes on. Fishing flexibility is enhanced by the club's ticketing arrangements. You can purchase day tickets for two, three, four, or five fish, whilst Rawlsbury is best enjoyed for a day, this ticket option makes it more likely you might fish for a few hours on a summer's evening.
Dragging out weed or pulling rushes reveals an abundance of natural aquatic life that often slow working parties - all fishermen, no matter how grown up, never lose that wonder for things that wriggle and crawl. It is as rich a water in this sense as one could wish. In Chapmans there is a good newt population and dragonfly larvae big enough to barbecue, although neither has appeared in trout stomachs as far as I know.
All the waters have pond snails of various species. Corixa, freshwater louse, shrimps, damsels and buzzers. Through the season there are daphnia blooms and sedges dancing at dusk. There are pond olives and a sporadic hatch of mayflies from Cowleaze. Add to this the caterpillars that fall from the Oak trees on Chapmans, the daddy long legs that come from the surrounding pasture and the hawthorn flies that dance from the hedges, it is surprising that any trout bother with artificials at all.
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