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Rutland Water 20th July2008

fish week 616 (season 21,828) returns 248 (6,356) rod average 2.48(3.43)

Boat anglers fared best last week as bank angling steadied due to the south west winds. The best boat areas were the main basin with Manton Bay showing good numbers of stock fish along with good quantities of grown on fish in that area. The mouth of Hideaway Bay is also producing fish.

A lot of fish are feeding on daphnia so mini lures in various colours are working, black/green, orange etc. Nymphs are still producing with pheasant tails (crunchers), diawl bach and hares ear continuing to catch well. There have been hatches of buzzers, some of them microscopic whilst hatches of sedge and caenis are showing along many shorelines in the evening.

Dominic McAvoy and Kevin Conway from Hurlford in East Ayrshire had a good week boat fishing at Rutland Water. The two youngsters caught 32 fish in three days, including seven fish over 3lb. Kevin had the best Rainbow at 4lb 6oz whilst Dominic caught the best brown at 3lb 1oz, all but one fish amongst the rest caught were over 2lb.

Competition News

Tuesday Night Boat League
Tom turns up the heat!
Tom Cooper put pressure on the rest of the chasing pack last week. Winning a close match by just over a ten ounce margin ahead of second placed Si Gaines. In third, and still in the hunt for the overall title, was Tom’s brother Richard.
Results for week 10
1st Tom Cooper 4 fish for 9lb 4¼oz
2nd Si Gaines 4 fish for 8lb 10oz
3rd Richard Cooper 3 fish for 6lb 15oz
Best fish 3lb 4oz was taken by Roger McCarthy.
League Placings
1st Tom Cooper 49 points
2nd Richard Cooper 42 points
3rd = Keith Jones 35 points
Chris Evans 35 points
5th Gary Cooper 31 points
6th Leon Smith 17 points

There are still four weeks of the boat league to go with plenty of scope for league positions to change.

2,000 more Rainbows were stocked last week with plenty of fish to go at.

Looking forward to August, Anglian Water is hosting a four man team event on Wednesday 20 August, fished under traditional Loch Style rules. This is open to everyone so why not enter your own team? Call the fishing lodge on 01780 686441 for details.

Best methods Bank anglers - floating line and midge tips with nymphs and lures. Boat anglers – as for bank but include slow sink lines.

Best rainbow 4lb 12oz taken by M Blane of Towcester

Best boat areas Main basin, Manton Bay

Best bank areas Normanton Church to the dam (late evening is best).

Mid week boat winner S Fraser of Dalkeith, Midlothian

Fish stocked 2,000

Forthcoming events
Tuesday evening boat league - book in from 5.15pm
Anglian Water Loch Style 4 man team 20 August
Beginners courses - 30 July; 16, 20, 23 & 30 August; 13, 17, 20 & 28 September; 5 & 18 October
For more information on the above events please
telephone the fishing lodge on 10780 686441

Grafham Water 20th July 2008

fish week 861 (season 13,066) returns 248 (3,538) rod average 3.47(3.69)

Grafham Water is fishing steadily with a rod average of 3.47. Boat anglers continue to have their best success from the Eastern end of the reservoir with A,I,Q,D,C,K and G buoys all producing good catch rates mainly on floaters/Di 3’s with blobs, boobies, crunchers, diawl bachs, cormorants and sparklers.

Bank anglers are sill having some good sport mainly from Gaynes Cove and the Sludge Bank on floating lines with diawl bachs and crunchers fished slowly.

Competition news
AWFMI Southern final 14 July
Fifty-four top anglers from the South of England enjoyed ideal conditions at Grafham Water with overcast skies and a light westerly breeze. Fishing with floating lines and nymphs in the middle of the water between I buoy and the dam they took 313 fish, giving a rod average of 5.8.
Twenty-one anglers had their 8 fish limit long before the 6.00pm deadline with Mark Miles bagged up just before 1.00pm. Phil Cotton took both the biggest fish a lovely 5lb 5 3/8oz rainbow and best bag of the match, weighing in 8 fish for 24lb 10oz (including time bonus). As you can't win two prizes in this competition, the prize for best fish passed to Neil West of Carbotec Kingfishers for his 4lb 3 5/8oz rainbow.

The weigh-in was a real 'nail-biter' with only 1 fish and less than 3 ounces between first and second place. The first three teams qualified for a place at the International Final at Rutland Water on 30 September/1 October.

1st Blagdon FF Bristol Water 43 fish for 105lb 15oz
2nd Team Tightlines 44 fish for 105lb 12 3/8oz
3rd Team Grand Max 39 fish for 88lb 7 7/8oz
4th FDG London 36 fish for 86lb 10 ¼oz
5th BRFFA Team Itchy Feet 35 fish for 81lb 14 ½oz
6th BRFFA Team Orvis 35 fish for 76lb 12 7/8oz
7th Fish Hawks 'A' 28 fish for 65b ¼oz
8th The Friendly Fisherman 28 fish for 61lb 5 5/8oz
9th Carbotec Kingfishers 25 fish for 60lb 3 5/8oz

Invicta Presidents Cup
1st Mark Searle 5 fish for 10lb 11oz
2nd Ray Storer 5 fish for 10lb 7oz
3rd John Mees 4 fish for 8lb 10oz

Invicta Tuesday night boat league week 10
20 Anglers took part in this week’s round of the competition.

1st Chris Williams 8 fish
2nd = Tom Angel and Mark Searle 7 fish
4th Chris McLeod 5 fish

Best rainbow 7lb taken by P Harrap of Royston

Best boat areas G,I,A,Q,C,G and K buoys, Central Drifts, Sludge Bank, Gaynes Cove, Rectory Bay

Best bank areas Gaynes Cove, Sludge Bank, South Dam

Mid week boat winner Michael Love of Bedford

Fish stocked 2,000

Forthcoming events
Beginners courses 3, 17, 27 & 31 August 14 & 24 September
Boat fishing for Beginners – 5 September
Tuesday Evening Boat League
AWFMI Midland Final – Monday 28 July
For more information on the above events please
telephone the fishing lodge on 01480 810531.

Ravensthorpe Reservoir 20th JUly 2008

fish week 477 (season 9,544) returns 78 (1,669) rod average 6.12 (5.72)

Ravensthorpe is providing the best top of the water dry fly fishing for some years with many individual catches of 20 plus fish and a high rod average of 6.12. Traditional wets, dries and wake flies short lined from drifting boats are taking most fish.

Best rainbow 5lb 6oz taken by Steve Lewington

Best boat areas Main bowl

Best bank areas Dam wall between chute and tower

Mid week boat winner Sarah Ball of Wigston

Fish stocked 500

Pitsford Water 20th July 2008

fish week 379 (season 11,213) returns 103 (3,328) rod average 3.6 (3.3)

Pitsford Water hosted a heat of the Lexus Individual on Sunday. A challenging north-westerly wind faced the competitors as they made their way out onto the reservoir. Fish were feeding in the top few feet of water. Nick Dunn coped with conditions best, finishing first with 12 fish for 22lb 1oz. Very close behind in second place, was visiting Czech angler Vladimir Sedivey with 12 fish for 22lb. Vladimir had already pre-qualified along with third placed Elinor Trout Fisheries owner Ed Foster with 9 fish for 17lb 15oz and fourth placed Richard Slater with 5 fish for 11lb. This meant that fifth placed Czech angler David Riha wentt on to qualify for entry into the final at Chew with 4 fish for 9lb 8oz. Another lucky angler was Graham Herbert who qualified on the wild card entry with the third biggest fish of the day, a rainbow of 3lb 2oz.

Anglers at Pitsford Water have enjoyed an amazing rod average for the time of year at 3.6. Sport is still very good late on in the evening around the Pines and off the Gravels. Fish are still feeding on the sedge pupae under the surface, so good patterns are diawl bachs or hares ear fished just under the surface. Dry flies are good but the sub surface nymphs are the way to go at the moment.

Last Tuesday was the final session of the season of Boat Buddies where first time boat users have the opportunity to fish alongside experienced boat anglers. This has proved very popular and will be offered again next season.

Pitsford’s Intermediate Club meets on the first Sunday of the month at 9.30 am and runs until December. An experienced angler will be on hand to show you how to tackle reservoir bank fishing. Telephone 0845 8737573 in advance.

Best Rainbow 5lb taken by Colin Faulkner

Best boat areas Dam, Boils

Best bank areas Gravels, Pines

Mid week boat winner Keith Nicholson of Tonbridge

Fish stocked 1,600

Forthcoming events
Boat fishing for pike at Pitsford Water alternate weeks Monday to Friday commencing 28 July; 11 & 25 August; 8 & 25 September
Beginners courses –16, 21, 30 August; 10, 13, 27 September; 11 & 25 October