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Week ending 2 March 2014

• Pitsford Water off to a flying start
Bonanza for bank anglers with many bagging up on Opening Day

• Brian’s 10lb 12oz Ravensthorpe Rainbow is best fish on Opening Day
Brian Coleman leads the way with a whopping Rainbow at Ravensthorpe

• Grafham Water opens 8 March

• Rutland Water opens 15 March

• Get your entry in now for the Anglian Water Airflo International

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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

Ravensthorpe Reservoir

The new season at Ravensthorpe certainly started with a bang! Anglers who fished on Opening Day were treated to some frantic action with most taking large numbers of fish. The rod average since opening day is running at over 8 fish per rod.

Ravensthorpe regulars and season ticket holders Pat Flynn and Brian Coleman set the bar high early on bringing over 40 fish to the boat. Brian had the best fish on Opening Day day with a cracking Rainbow of 10lb 12oz, whilst Pat’s best fish weighed 6lb 12oz.

Mick Griffin and Chris Skillen took over 20 fish, fishing bloodworm and nymph patterns around the island.

The Cooper party reported boating 120 fish between the four anglers in their group, catching on various lures, cats whisker, humungus and black and green.

Other notable catches included 25 fish for Phil Longstaff – his best fish weighed 7lb 8oz. Mr Fleming took 20 fish from the Island and Simon Hunt and Angus McFadglan had 20 fish from Mongers.

The best bank areas were Mongers and Platforms 2-6. John Smith fished here and did particularly well as did William Earland.

Pitsford Water

Pitsford Water opened its doors on 1 March and despite a frosty, foggy start the dozens of bank anglers who came early had a bonanza with fish in the margins around the whole of the reservoir. By 9am there were many anglers reporting bag limits and some cracking hard fighting fish.

The best areas were Bog Bay, Stilton, Gorse, Gravels, Sermons, Stone Barn, and Pitsford Creek. Methods varied from floating lines with buzzer and bloodworm to intermediate or slow sink lines with gold head lures such as black/green Pitsford Pea or Cats Whisker.

Bob Hindmarsh had 8 fish for over 17lb with the best at 4lb 4oz. Judith Tuffs was in excellent form fishing black and green lures on an intermediate line in Bog Bay. She had taken 7 fish by 9am and went on to release several more.

The best fish reported on Opening Day was a cracking overwintered fish of over 5lb taken by Nigel Woodhead who was fishing on Stilton Bank with a floating line and black and green lure.

Twelve boats ventured out and all reported lots of fish from all areas of the lake.

The Opening weekend has seen a rod average of 6.3. With a further stocking this week of 1,000 fish from Rainbow Valley, bringing the total stocked so far to 5,500, the rod average is sure to remain high.

Grafham Water opens 8 March

Rutland Water opens 15 March

Rutland Water Fly Fishers are holding an Open Day at Empingham Cricket Club on Saturday 22 March. This will be a great opportunity to meet RWFF members, gain casting tuition and tackle advice and lots more. Angling enthusiasts of all ages will be welcome. You can find out more on the RWFF website http://www.rwff.org.uk/

Anglian Water Airflo International

Don’t miss out on this great 6 man team competition – entries close soon. There are regional heats throughout the UK and the top teams come forward to fish the prestigious International final at Rutland Water at the end of September. For more information about the competition and to print an entry form go to
http://www.anglianwater.co.uk/leisure/anglian-water-airflo-international.aspx