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Week ending 21 June 2009

• Stars of the future take their first fishing trip at Pitsford Water fishing with Dad proved a great experience for 11 year old Juliet Rustom and her friend Georgia Gasgoine who caught her first ever fish weighing 2lb.

• Steve Cullen and Cliff Waters enjoy the best four hours on a water for many years at Ravensthorpe
free-drifting with 5 weight rods, and floating line with claret dabbler on the point and a bumble on the dropper.

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Rutland Water 01780 686441; Grafham Water 01480 810531;
Pitsford, Ravensthorpe & Hollowell 01604 781350,
Taverham Mills Fishery 01603 861014; Alton Water 01473 589105
Recreation Dept Anglian Water 01572 653021

Rutland Water
Fish week 1,453 (season 23,836) returns 387 (5,379) rod average 3.7(4.43)

There are plenty of fish moving on the surface taking insects and pin fry on calm days. The main basin has come into form with fish being taken all the way across and many limits taken, some within 1½ hours.

Best Brown 5lb 8oz taken by S Nicholson of North Ormsby Lincs.

Best boat areas Main basin, bottom of both arms. Lots of fish in open water

Best bank areas Normanton, Sykes Lane, Sailing Club, Old Hall,
the Finches.

Best methods Floating lines with nymphs, dries and mini lures.
Fish feeding on pinfry, buzzers, sedge, snails and daphnia.

Mid week boat winner Paul Wild (season ticket holder) of Ketton.

Fish stocked 2,000

Competition news
Tuesday Evening Boat League
Richard Cooper of Empingham won the fourth week of the competition with eight fish weighing an impressive 20lb 7½oz including a rainbow of 4lb 2½oz that earned Richard an extra two points .

Twenty anglers caught 79 fish with “fish moving everywhereâ€