3500 best methods

Rutland Water fish week 1076 (season 37375) returns 497 (9863) rod average 2.1 (3.7) The annual George Moore Memorial Rudder match was fished at Rutland Water on Saturday 20 July in a flat calm. Thirty-eight anglers took part and the two heaviest fish per boat where weighed in. 1st Ray Garrod and Mick Atkinson from Grimsby with 5lb 6oz. 2nd Tony Tibbert (Hambleton) and Ivan Henson 5lb 4oz 3rd John O’Shea (Empingham) and Robbie Brown with 5lb 3?oz. best rainbow – 3lb 2oz taken by Tony Tibbert best brown – 2lb 4oz taken by John Seaton Anglian Water Warden, Paul Friend, who organised the match was delighted with the entry, which raised £57 which Mrs Moore has chosen to donate to LOROS. best rainbow 4lb 15oz taken by Phil Tomlin of Great Glen Leicester best boat areas main basin, aerators, spud bay to old hall, tower to sailing limits and brown island best bank areas Normanton to dam, Sykes lane, Hinmans, yellowstone and spud bay. mid week boat winner season ticket holder, Charlie Heron of Oakham fish stocked: 3500 best methods: all methods are working, see fishery noticeboard for latest information competition news: Tuesday night boat league 1st Roger McCarthy with 4 fish for 7lb 10?oz 2nd Keith Jones with 3 fish for 5lb 13?oz 3rd Luke Shevlin with 2 fish for 4lb forthcoming events 24 July Shakespeare Match (50 boats booked) 29 – 31 July Hardy/Greys England Final (all boats booked) boat bookings Please telephone the lodge on 01780 686441 (8am to 4.45pm) for availability, as during the next few weeks the fishery is very busy. Ravensthorpe Reservoir fish week 301 (season 9079) returns 92 (1886) rod average 3.2 (4.8) Dry fry is the method at Ravensthorpe this week. Patterns being successful include blue damsel, hopper, cdc, and grhe. A few fish are also being taken on damsel nymphs. It is best at the moment to fish a single fly on a shortish leader from a drifting boat. There will be plenty of fish rising especially between 9.00am and 2.00pm but patience is still the key. Season ticket holder Jim Ferguson from Rugby spent Sunday on the ‘domes’ bank fishing a greased grhe, size 14, and was rewarded by 12 good quality fish. best rainbow 5lb 5oz taken on a damsel by Derek Fenemore whilst fishing the Wheatly Fly Fishers match best boat areas drifts from island to Hickmans spinney best bank areas domes and platforms mid week boat winner Jim Rieley of Chesterfield fish stocked 395 competition news Staffs Police Match, results 1st Ian Walford – 5lb 12oz 2nd Rob Hollings – 5lb 10oz 3rd John Cartlidge – 5lb 5oz. Wheatly Fly Fishers, results 1st John Hultman – 11lb 4oz 2nd John Poole – 9lb 14oz 3rd Derek Fenemore – 5lb 5oz Pitsford Water fish week 327 (season 9003) returns 150 (3314) rod average 2.1 (2.8) Sport continues to be good at Pitsford with superb quality fish coming to the net. As well as the 6lb browns taken by Rob Layton and Richard Slater, Simon Kimpton of Northampton had a lovely 4lb 2oz brown in his limit of four fish. Bank anglers have had most success early morning and evening, whilst boat anglers have enjoyed activity throughout the day. A few anglers are trying dry fly patterns but the most successful methods are still nymph patterns on a floating or slime type line. best rainbow 5lb best brown 6lb taken by Rob Layton , Old 6lb taken by Richard Slater, Northampton best boat areas duffers and opposite sailing club end and the inlet best bank areas duffers and sailing club mid-week boat winner Dave Osborne of Little Harrowden fish stocked 600 competition news: Wednesday night boat league 1st David Easton (Northampton) who had 4 fish for 7lb 12oz all taken near the sailing club on a grhe and a floating line. 2nd Richard Slater with 4 fish for 7lb 11oz 3rd Graham Pigram (East Hunsbury) with 4 fish for 6lb 13oz. England Fly Fishing Assoc. members fished an informal match on Thursday and Reg Wheeler and Jeff Brown of Rushden took first place with 11 fish for 22lb. Grafham Water fish week 575 (season13426) returns 191 (3789) rod average 3.0 (3.5) This week has seen some of the best sport all year at Grafham Water. The quality is second to none with some real hard fighting specimens being brought to the net. Fish are feeding in the top couple of feet of water and any sort of nymph or dry is catching fish. Floating/intermediate lines with pheasant tale nymphs, diawl bachs, red or claret hoppers and cdcs and flash back nymphs are however proving most successful. Evening are the best time with one angler reporting “the lake was lifting with fish, I didn’t know which one to cast at first”, this comments has been echoed by many anglers. England Youth National On Sunday the England Youth Fly Fishing Association held its annual championships with 40 of the best young anglers fishing for the reservoirs famous trout. Aged 12 to 17 they fished in pairs with an experienced boatman in breezy conditions and had a great day with a total catch of nearly 200 trout weighing nearly 400 pounds. Individual winner was James Hunt (13) from Measham, Derbyshire with 12 fish followed by Luke Lavelle from Kingsthorpe Northampton and Luke Shevlin (14) from Rutland. Fourth place went to the only girl competitor, Lisa Isles (13) from Poulton le Fylde, Cumbria with 10 fish. The winning boat pair was James Hunt and Lisa who were supervised by well known expert local angler Andy Linwood of Perry who was very impressed by their skills. ‘They both fished really well casting very skilfully and took the hard fighting fish with green nymphs fished in mid water’. The competition was fished to new rules with 6 fish weighed in and additional fish returned to the water counting as 2lbs each. Fishing results: qualifiers for EYFFA England team 2003 James Hunt, Measham, Derbyshire , 12 fish, 24lb-14oz Luke Lavelle, Kingsthorpe, Northampton, 12 fish, 23 – 09 Luke Shevlin, Rutland, 11 fish, 22-06 Lisa Isles, Cumbria, 10 fish, 22-01 Kyle Burns, Cheshire, 10 fish, 19-01 Christopher Tuck, Chapel Brampton, Northampton 8 fish, 16-10 Charles Bowers , Pinchbeck, Lincs, 8 fish, 16- 01 Robert McAndrew, 8 fish, 14- 03 Ben Harris , Bristol, 7 fish 13-14 Scott Nellins, Ashington, Northumberland, 7 fish 13-0 Lewis Hendrie, (reserve) Exmoor, 6 fish, 12-08 Biggest fish: Nick Wagstaffe of Chapel Brampton, Northampton 4lb-1oz. Grafham Water continued: best rainbow 5lb 7?oz taken by John Vincent of Sandy on a cdc emerger from church bay fishing the Thursday night boat league best boat areas g buoy, marlow bay, gaynes cove, savages creek, rainbow point, church bay and rectory bay best bank areas the seat, hill farm, stumps, g bank, marlow stones, dam and plummer park fish stocked: 3000 mid week boat winner: Theo Mountford of Peterborough competition news: Tuesday night boat league 17 anglers took part this week, catching 95 fish in 4 hours (rod average of 5.5) 1st Dave Burgess 8 fish for 20lb 2oz 2nd Norman Shippey (Cottenham) 8 fish for 20lb 1oz 3rd Andy Linwood (West Perry) 8 fish for 19lb Thursday night boat league 18 anglers looked forward to fishing the evening rise and with some having fished on Tuesday evening, expectations were high and they were not disappointed taking 75 fish up to 5lb 7?oz. 1st Pat Sweeney (Lidlington) 8 fish for 21lb 5oz 2nd Rob Edmunds (Ringstead) 8 fish for 20lb 15oz 3rd John Vincent (Sandy) 8 fish for 19lb 2oz forthcoming events: 4 August – Grafham Open – great prizes still time to book for this event, open to all places available on beginners courses on 17 August and 8 September telephone Grafham Water lodge on 01480 810531 for details or to book your place coarse fishing Taverham Mill Fishery Taverham Lake – is fishing well from all pegs. Best carp of the week went to Anglian Water Warden, Simon Wrigglesworth , who landed a 22lb 12oz Mirror amongst a catch of 4 carp and 23 tench. This now takes Simon to the top of the Nash Carpmasters leaderboard. Other carp caught included a fine specimen of 18lb 12oz which fell to season permit holder Gavin Buck of Hellesdon. Plenty of good tench are also being caught with the best at 5lb 10oz falling to season permit holder Bob Anderson of Taverham. Bob wins the Taverham Tenchmasters T-shirt this week, but the season’s best so far still stands at 6lb 8oz. Costessey Lakes – good fishing on all lakes with good catches of quality roach and skimmers to pleasure anglers. Large bream are still being taken from No. 2 lake.