Top team on day one was the local Greys Team, Rutland Water Flyfishers, who amassed 9 more fish than any other team with their 38 trout for 81pounds exactly. The Rutland team had three of their team catch ten-fish limit bags; they were, Paul Wild with 27lbs 5oz, Andrew Flitcroft with 20lbs 12oz and Mike…
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that at Rutland in the Peregrine/Nomad final, on a day when fish moved all over the lake, casting a booby and stripping it back as fast as possible past the nose of the fish, was in fact the method employed by most! I must confess to having strange…
My club, Bristol Reservoirs Fly Fishers Association, organises a competition throughout the trout season called the “Knock-out”. All those who enter are paired up against each other and fish their various rounds as the season progresses until the final is fished, during the late season competition held in early September. In the past, winners of…
Top individual was Martin Greatbatch who was one of the anglers on 9. His fish weighed in at 21lbs 13oz, all caught on red dries to the left of the tower. Martin told John Horsey that he was unaware of the number of trout in that part of the lake and that it was his…
Although this article is in the game section of this magazine it includes pike fishing as well as trout fishing because , on Lough Mask, pike can be caught by all the game fishing methods i.e. fly , trolling and bait (worm or dead bait). The techniques are well covered by Mark Ackerley (Dead baiting)…
Enthused by a wonderful couple of days in March at Kiwayu, of the coast of North Kenya, when we had had fine sport taking Koli-Koli (aka Golden Trevally) on the fly, as they in their turn preyed upon the shoals of sardines, I dared to suggest to Belinda that we once again ventured down to…
We tend to proceed conservatively, bound by norms, and received wisdoms. Progress sometimes requires that those received wisdoms be set aside for a while, to allow in the ravings of the lateral thinker, the loose cannon, or the seeming lunatic. It may be that Iím all of the above, but I ask you to read…
Although this article is in the game section of this magazine it includes pike fishing as well as trout fishing because , on Lough Mask, pike can be caught by all the game fishing methods i.e. fly , trolling and bait (worm or dead bait). The techniques are well covered by Mark Ackerley (Dead baiting)…
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