Rutland October 6th – 2013 Airflo International Results

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Week ending 6 October 2013

• Shark attack!
Seighford Sharks secure stunning victory in the Anglian Water Airflo International Final

• Rutland Water hosts world class final with a match rod average of 5.35

• Blagdon Fly Fishers Cortland secure Silver

• Team Airflo take Bronze

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Rutland Water
Fish week 3,305 (season 40,472) Returns 777 (9,191) Rod average 4.25 (4.4)
Anglers are enjoying some outstanding sport at Rutland Water with the highlight of the week being the final of the Anglian Water Airflo International which fished to a rod average of 5.35 for the two days.

Prospects look good with boat anglers still having the upper hand and reports of really big fish starting to move. However, it’s surely only a matter of time before numbers of fish start showing around the shoreline for the bank anglers.

Although plenty of fish are being caught, they are not feeding very hard, some are showing with corixa, and shrimp, with one 5lb plus Rainbow showing that a young Zander is also worth eating! This is despite the fact that there are huge concentrations of fry, shrimp, daphnia, corixa and snails available.

Anglian Water Airflo International
Anglers from all over the UK and Europe headed to Rutland Water for the two day final of this prestigious match. At the end of Day One (Tuesday 1 October) the Seighford Sharks with 45 fish for 129lb 6 3/8oz looked to have a comfortable margin of nearly 20lb ahead of second placed Blagdon Fly Fishers Cortland with 42 fish for 110lb 6¼oz. However, history shows that very few teams have led from the front to take victory on the final day. Only a few pounds separated 3rd placed Hanningfield on 108lb 15¼oz, 4th Welsh Hawks 106lb 11½oz and 5th Menteith Ospreys on 104lb 15 3/8oz.

Rutland Water was at its best and fished to a rod average of 5.45.
Day One highlights – the best Rainbow weighed 5lb 11oz and was taken by Graeme Steele fishing for the Grizzle Cats. The top rod was Tim Joyce, fishing for Hanningfield. Tim’s bag weight was 26lb 13 3/8oz – he also took the best Brown of the day at 5lb 15 7/8oz.

As the boats ventured from the harbour they made an interesting split – the majority headed for the South Arm with only six daring to venture down the North Arm. Interestingly none stayed in the Main Basin – the first time anyone can recall this happening in a major match. Anglers had tubed here on practice day without success. Fish were up in the water and some of the most successful tactics were to fish two boobies twelve feet apart on slime lines. Despite the numbers fishing the South Arm, boats were well spaced and favoured the left hand side of Manton Bay.

First back to the pontoon on Day One were Mike Dixon fishing for Seighford Sharks with 8 fish for 24lb 13¾ and Iain Barr fishing for Blagdon Fly Fishers Cortland 8 fish for 24lb 3 5/8oz. This pair arrived back at 1.30pm.

At the end of Day One The Corrib Hoppers were in 8th place with 37 fish for 91lb 8 5/8oz, and were the leading overseas team.

On the second, and final day, the boats left the pontoon and yet again six made for the North Arm and the rest headed to the South Arm. Anglers were caught in heavy early morning rain and the atmosphere was tense with anticipation.

Fortunately conditions soon improved and were near perfect with no further rain, it remained overcast and the forecast strong winds didn’t materialise.
Rutland Water again fished its socks off with a Day Two rod average of 5.25, only slightly less than Day One (5.45). Across the two days there were numerous limits including quality 3lb plus Rainbows and Browns. At the final weigh in it was evident that some good sized fish were tipping the scales. Tactics used ranged from boobies ‘popped’ on the surface, to blobs, nymphs, cormorants and dabblers fished on intermediate/slow sink lines, with one or two successful using floating lines, with nymphs and dries.

At the presentation dinner, following two days of intense competition, Jon Marshall, Fisheries Manager for Anglian Water, held his audience in suspense as he announced the results from Day Two. It would take a lot to dislodge Seighford Sharks from the top – but anything was possible.

So on Day Two Wullie Simpson fishing for Menteith Ospreys landed the best Brown at 5lb 10 1/8oz. With a one Brown limit enforced Wullie had to return an even bigger Brown estimated at around 9lb later on. Nick Long fishing for Blagdon Fly Fishers Cortland (second placed team after Day One) netted the best Rainbow at 6lb 7¼oz – Nick’s fish was the best fish of the match overall. Mark Harrison of Seighford Sharks had the best bag on Day Two with 8 fish for 26lb 95/8oz. Top rod of the entire match was Mike Dixon of Seighford Sharks with 16 fish for 48lb 13 ¾oz.

Team Airflo had an excellent day coming out top on Day Two with 44 fish for 109lb 11 3/8oz with Seighford Sharks in second with 38 fish for 105lb 9 1/8oz and Blagdon Fly Fishers Cortland third with 35 fish for 99lb 12 1/8oz.

There were outstanding consistent performances across both days from a number of the top teams with Seighford Sharks maintaining their lead from Day One for a convincing victory. Team members Craig Barr, Gary Owen, Mark Harrison, Phil Longstaff and Phil and Mike Dixon received gold medals along with the prestigious silver salver first awarded 31 years ago. It was a remarkable double for the Seighford Sharks as they had previously won the Lexus European team event back in August. Silver medals went to Blagdon Fly Fishers Cortland and Bronze to Team Airflo. The top three teams also received prizes and substantial prize money. The overall rod average for the match was 5.35.

G Loomis Team Belgium won the prize for leading overseas team. The WaterAid trophy for the heaviest fish taken throughout the match series went to Bob Cooper. Bob (who fishes for Stocks Falcons) took a fine 9lb 9oz Rainbow during the Northern Heat fished at Stocks Reservoir on 8 June.

Anglian Water Airflo International
Rutland Water Final Results

Fish lb oz
1st Seighford Sharks 83 234 15 1/2
2nd Blagdon Fly Fishers Cortland 77 210 2 3/8
3rd Team Airflo 77 192 14 1/2
4th Fish Hawks 75 189 3 5/8
5th Welsh Hawks 72 186 10 3/4
6th Menteith Ospreys 71 185 9 1/8
7th Hanningfield 66 177 13 7/8
8th Change Flyfishers A Team 67 174 13 7/8
9th G.Loomis Team Belgium 63 170 13 1/4
10th Harvey Angling Margam 66 164 13 7/8
11th Thalassa AC 65 163 7
12th Nymph-a-Maniacs 63 162 13 5/8
13th Rio Masters 65 162 1 7/8
14th The Renegades 66 160 2 7/8
15th The Corrib Hoppers 66 159 3 1/4
16th OTFA(Kirkwall) 60 149 2 3/8
17th Shetland Anglers 59 144 12 1/4
18th Grizzle Cats 57 142 9 3/8
19th Froggies Fly Fishers 56 142 8 7/8
20th Saltire Flyfishers 51 135 4 7/8
21st Stock Barracudas 45 114 13 1/8
22nd Bewl Chingley Chompers 43 113 12 3/8

No. of Fish Caught 1413
Rod Average 5.35
Total weight of fish caught 3638lb 10 5/8oz
Average fish weight 2lb 9oz
Average bag weight 13lb 12½oz

Major Clubs final match (Group One)
Rutland Water Flyfishers sealed victory at the final match of the season on their home water. The team weighed in 18 fish for 46lb 7oz and with that clinched victory from Bewl Water FF ‘A’ and the Army Angling Association.
1st RWFF 46lb 7oz
2nd Fish Hawks ‘A’ 31lb 12oz
3rd Soldier Palmers 30lb 10oz
4th Bewl FF 19lb 4oz
5th GWFFA 18lb 1oz
Final standings
1st RWFF 23 points
2nd Soldier Palmers A 20 points
3rd GWFFA A 19 points
4th Fish Hawks A 16 points
5th Bewl FC ‘A’ 12 points

Best Rainbow 6lb 7¼oz taken by Nick Long of Blagdon Fly Fishers.
Best Brown 5lb 15 7/8oz taken by Tim Joyce of Hanningfield.

Best methods Bank – Fry patterns, daddies, nymphs.
Boat – Mini boobies, tubes, cormorants, daddies, blobs, humungus.

Best boat areas Bottom of both Arms, fishing lodge frontage (main basin).

Best bank areas Sykes, Normanton, the Peninsula, Green Bank.

Mid week boat winner W Foster of Storrington, West Susex.

Forthcoming events
Beginners courses: 26 October; 2 November.

Pike fishing from boats with lures and dead sea bait over 18cm (excludes lamprey)
1 October to 24 November.
Mid week Pike boats now available.
Autumn Pairs 12 October This popular match is fished in two sections – non rudder and rudder. Call the fishing lodge now to book a place.
Anglian Water Rudder Match 26 October.
Please phone in advance to check boat availability as the fishery is particularly busy at the weekends.

Grafham Water
Fish week 639 (season 20,115) Returns 202 (5,117) Rod average 3.16 (3.93)
Grafham Water continues to fish well with a healthy rod average of 3.16 with a third of the trout taken weighing 3lb or over. Bank anglers have had the best of the sport with the entire Dam producing the most consistent catch rates. The Seat, G Buoy, Pylon Point and Hill Farm have also produced excellent fishing throughout the week mainly on shrimp patterns, GRHE, diawl bachs and minkies, all fished on a floating line.

The heaviest bag of the week was caught by bank angler Martin Webster who caught 8 fish for an incredible weight of 30lb 4oz, by fishing red holographic diawl bachs on a floating line. Martin caught two trout at the Seat and then moved to G Buoy where he caught his remaining six fish. Martin’s best trout was a Rainbow of 5lb 5oz which was also the heaviest rainbow caught for the week.

The boat anglers haven’t had the most consistent sport this week but on some days they have enjoyed some good fishing. Gaynes Cove, G Buoy, the Seat, lodge frontage and Valley Creek have all produced some great sport. The main methods for boat anglers have been intermediate lines with a mixture of minkies, humungus booby, cats whisker, diawl bachs, crunchers, GRHE and buzzers generally fished slow.

Competition news
GWFFA bank match 29 September.

11 anglers fished the latest GWFFA bank match and caught 52 trout for a very healthy rod average of 4.72. Most competitors fished the Dam where there were five limits recorded.

Top rod of the day was John Vincent with 8 fish for 22lb 8 5/8oz. John fished shrimp patterns and minkies at the South end of the Dam where he took six fish on shrimp patterns and two on minkies.

The biggest fish of the day was caught by Chris McLeod. Chris caught a superb over wintered Rainbow of 4lb 6¼oz from Pylon Point on a shrimp pattern.

Best Rainbow 5lb 5oz taken by Martin Webster.

Best Brown 6lb 2oz taken by P Williamson of Oakley, Bedford.

Best methods See report.

Best boat areas G Buoy, Gaynes Cove, Lodge Frontage, Seat, Valley Creek.

Best bank areas Entire Dam, the Seat, Hill Farm, G Buoy, Pylon Point.

Mid week boat winner Ken Stapley of Bourne.

Forthcoming events
Beginners courses: 20 October.
Pike fishing from boats with lures and dead sea bait over 18cm (excludes lamprey)
7 October to 1 December.
Mid week Pike boats now available.
Fry Bashers match (by invitation) 19 October.

Pitsford Water
Fish week 225 (season 11,990) Returns 76 (3,545) Rod average 2.9 (3.3)
Several good quality Browns have been caught in the last week at Pitsford as the fry feeding has begun in earnest. The best Brown of the week was taken by Simon Ashton and went to 6lb 2oz – it was a personal best Pitsford fish for Simon who was boat fishing. Other good sized Browns included one at 4lb 8oz for David Hestildine and a 4lb plus for P Garnett.

Boat angler Angus McFaddean had a great day taking 20 plus fish using fry patterns on a floating line drifting along the Narrows.

Bank anglers are reporting more gaps appearing in the weed and some cracking fry feeding trout coming to fry patterns fished in the margins. With the cooling weather things should continue to improve.

Fish were in the top two feet of the water early in the week but the easterly winds have sent them deeper and made the fishing harder over the weekend. The rod average remained around 3.
Competition news
On Sunday Pitsford Water hosted the Tom Bilson Memorial Match with 34 England Youths and Seniors fishing on a tough day with 45 fish caught.

Gary Owen was the winner of the Seniors competition and the only angler to catch an eight fish limit. Aaron Carnie won the Youth Event and also took the biggest fish with a Rainbow of 5lb 9oz.

Best Rainbow 4lb 10oz.

Best Brown 6lb 2oz taken by Simon Ashton.

Best methods Fish up in the water early in the week. Daddies/hoppers catching. Recent easterly winds have made fishing harder.

Best boat areas Narrows/Cliffs.

Best bank areas One or two areas are now fishable.

Mid week boat winner A Ferguson of Leicester.

Forthcoming events
Beginners courses:13,19 and 27 October.
Pike fishing from boats with lures and dead sea bait over 18cm (excludes lamprey)
1 October to 24 November.
Pike fishing from the bank 1 November to 28 February 2014.

Ravensthorpe Reservoir
Fish week 156 (season 8,501) Returns 54 (1,774) Rod average 2.9 (4.8)
Fishing at Ravensthorpe this week has been a bit of a ‘mixed bag’. The week started well with anglers catching well on wets, dries and blobs fished on floating lines. But towards the weekend it was a lot harder with more anglers ‘drifting’ their boats to find the fish. The most productive area has been the Main Bowl.

Mr Whibley had 7 fish on Klinkhammers while Mr Mills had 8 fish on Daddies, and traditional wet flies fished on a floating line.

Mr Lea had 8 fish on a grey minkie fishing an intermediate line, while Mr Duffy had 10 fish on hoppers.

Mr Makin and his partner had 25 fish to the boat on daddies, crippled midges and another 25 fish were boated by Mr Welch and Mr Dunn who used green/white minkies on a floating line. Mr Welch had the biggest fish of the week a 7lb Rainbow.

Not many bank anglers have fished this week, but those that did enjoyed sport on the Dam. Bob Draper landed 5 fish and lost a few more fishing buzzers on a floating line.

Best Rainbow 7lb taken by P Welch of Boston.

Best methods See report.

Best boat areas Main bowl.

Best bank areas Dam (limited).

Mid week boat winner M Benson of Didcot, Oxon.

Pike fishing from boats with lures and dead sea bait over 18cm (excludes lamprey)
7 October to 1 December 2013 and 15-23 February 2014.

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