Anglian Water Trout Fishing July 14th

• Points mean prizes in Rutland Tuesday Night Boat League!
Richard Cooper of Empingham is the current league leader with only a few weeks to go

• Ray’s 8lb 7oz Rainbow is best fish of the week at Ravensthorpe
Ray Harnwell nets best fish

• New car park for anglers at Rutland Water
This is for bank anglers fishing the southern corner of the dam at Fantasy Island and the lower section of the Normanton bank. Full details in the Rutland report

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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 721 (season 21,312) Returns 311(5,055) Rod average 2.31 (4.21)
Although conditions have been challenging fish are being caught at Rutland Water. Mick Atkinson recorded a great bag of fish from the Main Basin – six fish for 18lb 2oz including a 7lb 5oz Rainbow which was the best fish of the week. Whilst the best Brown of the week tipped the scales at 6lb 14½oz for Roy Bartrum who won the rudder match alongside his son Colam.

New car park
There is a new car park available to bank anglers to fish the southern corner of the Dam at Fantasy Island and the lower section of the Normanton bank. Access for season ticket holders is by the anglers ‘silver key’ padlock, which allows you to park right down at the draw off shaft section (tower). Please drive slowly as there is a footpath for pedestrians at the bottom. Day permit anglers also have access with a combination padlock with a four digit code available from the tackle shop and the ticket huts at Normanton and Whitwell.

Competition news
Anglian Water Airflo International Northern final
1st Seighford Sharks 45 fish for 105lb 2½oz
2nd Ospreys 33 fish for 70lb 3½oz
3rd The Renegades 27 fish for 57lb 63/8oz
These top three teams now go forward to the International final at Rutland Water 30 September and 1 October 2014.
Andy Cooper fishing for Stocks Cormorants took the best fish of the match at 6lb 1½oz. Top rod was Gary Owen, fishing for Seighford Sharks, with a bag of 21lb 3 7/8oz.

4th Stocks Harriers 22 fish for 40lb 5½oz
5th Stocks Falcons 16 fish for 29lb 13½oz
6th Stocks Cormorants 13 fish for 29lb 5¾oz
7th Iain Barr Flyfishing Team Costa 14 fish for 28lb 4½oz
8th Tannahill Raiders 12 fish for 25lb 6½oz
9th Haslingdon & District FFC 9 fish for 17lb 12 5/8oz
10th Greys Team Stocks 8 fish for 17lb ½oz

Tuesday Night Boat League
Graham Hayward of Empingham won the tenth match of this season’s league with 4 fish including the biggest fish of the night a 4lb 3¾oz Rainbow.
1st Graham Hayward 4 fish for 11lb 3oz
2nd Hilary Tomlinson 5 fish for 9lb 10¼oz
3rd Rich Cooper 4 fish for 9lb 7¼oz

Rich Cooper’s third place on the night has taken him to the top of the current leader board with the total points as follows.
1st Rich Cooper 55 points
2nd Mick Bennett 51 points
3rd Keith Jones (Wittering) 41 points
4th Graham Hayward 35 points
5th = Toff Crowther 17 points
Warren Landridge 17 points

Anglian Water Rudder match 12 July
This match, the fifth in a series of nine, was held on Saturday in less than perfect rudder conditions. Father and son Roy and Colam Bartrum managed to catch their fish on fast sinking lines and a small black boobie. Roy’s bag included the best Brown of the week at 6lb 14½oz.

Best Rainbow 7lb 5oz taken by Mick Atkinson.

Best Brown 6lb 14½oz taken by Roy Bartrum.
Best boat areas Main basin, North Arm, Tower. Barnsdale to New Zealand Point.

Best bank areas Old Hall, Green Bank, Hinmans, Dam and Fantasy.

Best methods Bank – Nymphs, dries, floating lines.
Boat – Floating line midge tip, dries, nymphs. Sinking lines, tubes, white, orange lures.

Mid week boat winner Mick Conway of Barrowden.

Fish stocked 2,000.

Forthcoming events
Beginners courses: 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.

Grafham Water
Fish week 486 (season 18,386) Returns 164 (3,485) Rod average 2.96 (5.27)
The fishing at Grafham Water has improved for both bank and boat anglers with a rod average of 2.96. The best bag of the week was taken by bank angler Nick Evans of Ramsey. Nick caught six trout for 22lb from the South Dam on a floating line with shrimp patterns. Nick’s best fish weighed 4lb 4oz.

Bank anglers have enjoyed a good week’s fishing with the Dam again being the most productive area. G Buoy and Deep Water Point have also produced some good sport – mainly in the morning. The most productive method for bank anglers has again been floating lines with GRHE, diawl bachs, crunchers, shrimp patterns and damsel nymphs fished almost static.

Boat anglers have had a much better week with a number of areas on the reservoir starting to produce some good consistent fishing. The most productive boat areas have been G,M,J,F and I Buoys, Central Drifts, Valley Creek, Savages Creek and the lodge frontage. All of these areas have fished well at times with the best methods being floating – Di3 lines with red or yellow culls, crunchers, diawl bachs, tequila blobs, brown bob’s bits, hares ears, damsel nymphs and cormorants.

Competition News
GWFFA versus Invicta
This friendly match was fished by 31 anglers with the top ten individual results from each team contributing to the final results. Rod average 2.77.
Both teams caught 43 trout with GWFFA narrowly beating Invicta by 2¼lb. Top individual on the day was GWFFA captain Chris Bobby who caught 8 trout for 21lb 4oz with his best fish weighing 4lb 4oz.
1st GWFFA 43 fish for 94lb 12oz
2nd Invicta 43 fish for 92lb 8oz

Thursday Night Boat League week 11
Four anglers took part in this week’s boat league catching 11 trout for a rod average of 2.75. Top rod on the night was David Moore who caught 6 trout.

Best Rainbow 5lb taken by D Clanfield of Downham Market.

Best boat areas Central Drifts, G,M,J and I Buoys, Valley Creek,
Savages Creek, Lodge frontage.

Best bank areas South and bowl of Dam, G Buoy, Deep Water Point.

Best methods See report.

Mid week boat winner Peter Rust.

Forthcoming events
Beginners courses: 18,20 & 24 July; 3,10 & 24 August and other dates throughout the season.
AWAI Midland Final 21 July
Snowbee Floating Line match 26 July.

Pitsford Water
Fish week 199(season 8,154) Returns 96 (2,008) Rod average 2.0(4.0)
The fishing has continued to be quite challenging at Pitsford Water this week, but there are good catches to be had if the right tactics are employed.

The best fish of the week was a lovely Brown Trout of 5lb 8oz caught by Nick Selt. The best boat area is the main bowl down to the Dam. Bank anglers should head for Rigbys, Holly Bush and Bog Bay.

Pat Flynn and Pete Webb have been successful again this week using midge tip or floating lines teamed with blobs and crunchers to tempt 16 fish to the boat.

In such warm water conditions you would expect the fish to be deep, but in contradiction to this anglers at Pitsford have been catching fish in the top three feet of water. This fact was brought home during last Tuesday’s Evening Boat League. Eleven anglers fished, several of them with lots of experience of fishing at Pitsford, but it was the two new anglers, Eddie White and Noel Ramsey who had the best catches on the night. Both caught and lost fish using a floating line and F.A.B., whilst their more experienced boat partners struggled.

Competition News
The Ospreys FFA had a club outing with 19 anglers fishing. They caught 66 fish with the best fish at 3lb 2oz. The best bag was 12lb 11oz.

Best Rainbow 3lb 4oz.

Best Brown 5lb 8oz taken by Nick Selt.

Best boat areas Dam and Main bowl.

Best bank areas Rigbys, Holly Bush.

Best methods See report.

Mid week boat winner Kevin Taylor.

Fish stocked 1,001
Pitsford Water continued

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: 19 & 26 July; 1,9 and 23 August and other dates throughout the season.

Ravensthorpe Reservoir
Fish week 62 (season 10,501) Returns 54 (1,532) Rod average 1.1(6.8)
A testing week at Ravensthorpe, but anglers who found ‘the method’ enjoyed fantastic sport.

The best fish this week fell to Ray Harnwell, a nice 8lb 7oz Rainbow which took Ray’s cruncher fished very slow. Gavin Layton had good sport on the dry fly, fishing hoppers. Gavin brought 10 fish to the boat on Saturday.

Frazer Duffy Junior and his dad have had some success fishing dries such as claret, black and brown hoppers with short casting loch style tactics often picking out the better fish.

The warmer water in the shallows has concentrated fish in the cooler, deeper water of the Main Basin and Boils area. Boats that have drifted these areas fishing either washing line tactics or Di5 sweep lines with a stripped retrieve have scored well.

The bank is still worth fishing with fish moving to shallow water early morning and after sunset. On overcast days anglers are catching from the bank throughout the day mainly on washing line with diawl bachs and crunchers.

Best Rainbow 8lb 7oz taken by Ray Harnwell.

Best Brown 3lb 8oz.

Best boat areas Main Basin, Boils.

Best bank areas Platforms 3-8, Dam.

Best methods See report.

Mid week boat winner Mr Leeson of Norwich.

Fish stocked 360.