He asked me if I would take a good friend of his out fishing on Chew during his brief visit to the U.K. I agreed that I could see no problem and went ahead booking boats, communicating with the said friend – Phil Thompson, and keeping up to date with what was happening on the…

Chris Klee has managed the fishing side of things since Ernie Wright retired. It has been well known that the water company has been struggling to maintain the quality of the fisheries under its control, as anglers become thinner on the banks and more small stillwaters open up. There is no doubt that the quality…

I have been extremely fortunate in having won the Orvis sponsored competition on Chew Valley Lake on several occasions. Each time the prize has been an Orvis rod! For a long time I really loved using the “Hampshire” which was later renamed the “Western”. After a while though, I began to realise its limitations. Don’t…

Conditions were pretty rough, with the wind approaching gale force at times. However, the fish were willing to respond to a variety of methods, and the top anglers – who go on to represent England in the Loch Style Home Internationals in next year’s two events, needed to catch 5 or more trout. The lads…

As I reported last week, the event in which I am involved reached its climax this weekend – I have to get my report to the editor by Friday, hence the Peregrine/Nomad results will be available next week.The Tightlines/Airflo competition has also reached its conclusion as regards the qualifying stages. The report from the final…

E.C.Tel Enigma “A” managed to catch only four trout between the four-man team – yet they still qualified for the Rutland final in second place with the fantastic weight of 29lbs 14oz! More of that later!Top honours on a tough fishing day at a rather dour-mooded Hanningfield went to the Loop Queen Mother team –…

I have been saying for many weeks now that week in, week out it is the top teams that keep winning through to the final rounds of the competitions. It has been the talk of all the competition boys too. Generally speaking, there is a fair sprinkling of “average” teams amongst the finalists; this year…

Here is the “gist” of it: The problem has been cleared up. There is no longer an infection in the water. The water is open for fishing, and has been all through the period of time when the problem was present. The management have made a decision to stop providing trout for stocking into other…

Anglian Water use a large number of the Hanningfield fish for their stocking programme throughout the season. Yet in July the staff at Hanningfield noted problems with their cages of trout and then in early August there was an order put on the fishery to prevent the movement of trout to other waters. The Environmental…

He is responsible for running the Airflo Classic 2000 competition, which is currently running at various venues throughout the country. I am indebted to Tony for sending me the reports of each of the competitions. I will work through them in the order that they have taken place.The first of the eight Regional Qualifiers took…