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Week ending 29 June 2014

• 5lb 14oz Rainbow at Rutland Water
K Webb takes best fish of the week

• Best Rainbow of the week at Pitsford Water
David Nash takes 5lb 8oz Rainbow

• Terrific dry fly sport at Ravensthorpe

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Rutland Water
Fish week 460(season 20,023) Returns 190 (4,496) Rod average 2.42 (4.45)
There are a tremendous number of fish on the surface in many areas of the reservoir. However, the fishing has been both testing and frustrating at times with fish moving through the surface feeding mainly on the prolific hatches of this year’s pin fry, and to a lesser extent on corixa and damsel nymphs.

The best fish of the week was a 5lb 14oz Rainbow taken by Mr K Webb. Season ticket holder Keith Jones had another specimen Brown weighing in at 4lb 14½oz, that was caught in last week’s Tuesday Night Boat League Match.

Quickly presented dries and nymphs into the path of the fish accounted for some good quality fish that seemed to be swimming around in the top six inches of the reservoir. Most were Rainbows in the 3-5lb bracket in areas such as Lax Hill, Cattle Trough Bay and Browns Island in the South Arm. Some anglers found fish in the middle of the South Arm, Inmans Spinney and Spud Bay.

The stocking of another 3,000 Rainbows last Thursday and Friday had little effect on the fishing, but took the total stocked for the season to 52,000.

Bank anglers have had sport off the Green Bank and the Dam, as previously mentioned there was plenty of fish movement in lots of areas. A good tip is to keep on the move looking for fish movement, rather than staying in one spot.

The aerators have now been switched on and there is a steady number of fish coming off them. Albeit these are stock fish, with one or two silvered up fish amongst them.

Competition news
Tuesday Night Boat League
A bit of quality sees Keith take week eight. Keith Jones of Peterborough won Week 8 with a 4lb 14½oz Brown which made all the difference to his eight fish bag weight of 19lb 6oz.

1st Keith Jones 8 fish for 19lb 6oz
2nd Richard Cooper 8 fish for 16lb 12½oz
3rd Graham Hayward 8 fish for 16lb 5½oz

RWFF Loch Style
10 anglers paired up and the results are as follows.

1st Geoff Wanless & Rob Teasdale 6 fish for 12lb 10oz
2nd Dave Porter & Steve Crowder 5 fish for 10lb 3oz
3rd Jamie Weston & Phil Brown 3 fish for 9lb 9oz
4th Gary West & Peter Gover 3 fish for 7lb 2oz
5th Dan Perks & Lyn Walters 1 fish for 2lb 10oz

Best fish was a brown weighing 4lb 1oz caught by Phil Brown.

Best Rainbow 5lb 14oz taken by K Webb of Norfolk.

Best Brown 4lb 14oz taken by Keith Jones of Glinton.

Best boat areas Bottom of the South Arm, middle of the main basin, Normanton, Sykes Lane, Green Bank.

Best bank areas Normanton, Sykes Lane, Green Bank, Yellowstones, Inmans Spinney, Dickinsons Bay.

Best methods Bank – dry fly and nymphs.
Boat – As for bank, but include small lures on
various sinking lines for mainly stock fish.

Mid week boat winner K Saxton of Nottingham.

Forthcoming events
Please note that demand for boats is high over the weekend of 5 and 6 July.
Beginners courses: 6,13 & 27 July; 2,14 & 17 August and other dates throughout the season.
Tuesday Night Boat League This year’s boat league runs through to the 15 August – a total of 15 weeks. Anglers meet at the Fishing Lodge between 5.15 and 5.45 p.m. with the draw for boat partners taking place at approx. 5.55pm. The match starts at 6pm.
Anglian Water Rudder match 12 July
RWFF Youth Flyfishing Day 13 July http://www.rutlandwaterflyfishers.co.uk

Grafham Water
Fish week 432(season 17,313) Returns 164(3,037) Rod average 2.6 (5.7)
The fishing at Grafham has been challenging this week with the bank anglers having the best of the sport. Bank anglers are finding that the South end of the Dam has given the most consistent catch rates on floating lines with GRHE, diawl bachs, black or brown buzzers and PTN’s fished close to margins. Also Deep Water Point, G Buoy and Hill Farm have produced some good sport with damsel nymphs giving the best catch rates.

Boat anglers have once again found the fishing quite challenging over the past week but there have been many catches mainly on midge tip lines with tequila blobs and boobies, cormorants, crunchers, diawl bachs, brown buzzers, hoppers, Bob’s Bits and flash back nymphs. The best areas for the boat anglers over the past week have been South Dam, G,K,P and B Buoys, Valley Creek and Central Drifts. There have been some quality trout caught in Savages Creek.

Competition News
English Fly Fishing Association versus Professionals 25 June
Two sixteen man teams took part in this annual match catching 53 trout for a rod average of 1.66. Top individual on the day was Peter De Kremer from EFFA who caught 5 trout for 17lb 13oz. Peter also caught the biggest fish of the match – a superb over wintered Rainbow of 6lb. Peter caught his fish by fishing a floating line at Savages Creek with Bobs Bits.

1st Professionals 29 fish for 68lb 10oz
2nd EFFA 24 fish for 64lb 12oz

Best Rainbow 6lb taken by Peter De Kremer.

Best Brown 2lb.

Best boat areas Deep Water Point, G,K,P and B Buoys, Central Drifts, Valley Creek, south Dam.

Best bank areas South Dam, Deep Water Point, G Buoy, Hill Farm

Best methods See report.

Mid week boat winner I Stokes.

Forthcoming events
Beginners courses:12,18,20 & 24 July; 3,10 & 24 August and other dates throughout the season.

Pitsford Water
Fish week 182 (season 7,742 ) Returns 86 (1,833) Rod average 2.1 (4.2)
Towards the end of the week fishing became less challenging. The biggest fish of the week was a fine 5lb 8oz Rainbow which fell to David Nash. Mr A Joy took the biggest Brown at 4lb 4oz.

The most successful method has been fishing in the top two feet of water with washing lines and crunchers. However Di3’s and 5’s have worked too. The best boat areas have been Stone Barn Bay down to Causeway. The best bank areas have been Stone Barn, Northfields shore and the North Bank Points.

Lure fishing at Pitsford commences on 1 July (please make sure you read the lure fishing rules carefully).

Competition news
Scierra Pairs
Iain Barr and Ed Foster won the match, bagging 16 fish by 14.30, closely followed by Mick Loy and Bill Mcilroy who finished at 15.00. 80 fish were caught in total during this match.

Best Rainbow 5lb 8oz taken by David Nash.

Best Brown 4lb 4oz taken by A Joy.

Best boat areas Stone Barn Bay down to Causeway.

Best bank areas Stone Barn, Northfields shore, North bank Points.

Best methods See report.

Mid week boat winner J Beckhurst.

Fish stocked 1,000.

Forthcoming events
Tuesday Night Boat League at Pitsford Water. Fishing will be from 6pm with a weekly prize for a free boat and the overall winner of the league receiving tackle vouchers.
Forthcoming events
Beginners courses: 5,9,19 & 26 July; 1,9 and 23 August and other dates throughout the season.

Ravensthorpe Reservoir
Fish week 586(season 10,337) Returns 147 (1,431) Rod average 3.4(7.2)

Anglers at Ravensthorpe have enjoyed great sport on the dry fly. Many anglers bagged large catches with dry fly and washing line tactics when conditions were right. Doug Whibley had fun at the start of the week boating 7 fish on claret klinkhammer at the Coton End. Other anglers have fished this area and have caught well on pin fry patterns such as silver Invicta.

David Brady made the washing line method work for him by pulling the diawl bachs and accounting for 21 fish to the boat. Frazer Duffy had a good result on the dries on Friday, taking 25 fish. Returning on Saturday Frazer and his son caught well again, mostly on claret hoppers.

Mick Griffin and Graham Smith were on form on Saturday with Mick fishing small dries and Graham fishing diawl bachs, the pair boated 19 fish in the morning. Fish have been coming to dries fished blind.

The Dam has fished well at times through the week with Jim Ferguson accounting for some very nice fish on sedge patterns. Floating fry and pin fry patterns are also worth a try along the Dam. Bob Draper had a rude wake up call from a 12lb plus Common Carp which took a liking to his diawl bach and rocketed 50 yards from the Dam.

Best Rainbow 5-6lb.

Best boat areas Island to the Catwalk, Coton End.

Best bank areas The Dam.

Best methods See report.

Mid week boat winner W Ferguson of Oadby.