It was bowing 23 miles an hour at Rutland this morning and forecast to get up to 40 later in the afternoon and with safety in mind there were no boats going out today.
I was nearly there when Richard Slater called to tell me it was off so I turned around and headed home.
The practice was wasted but it was good to have a day out with Ash anyway although we did get rained on most of the day. I managed 4 on blobs and boobies and the fish were deep in the morning but came up in the water in the afternoon. We found fish in Spud bay, Yellowstone, outside the lodge and in Barnsdale however I didn't find and of the fresh stockies I was looking for but if I was to fish over fish all day i was feeling confident.
Anyway it's irrelavant now and it's all down to one heat at Grafham in June.
Sunday 30 May 2010
Tuesday 18 May 2010
Talbot Butler Trophy winner
Yes it was me!!!
After a couple of days on Eyebrook with Mike you would have thought we would have been shattered and fed up of each other but fortunately not. I was looking forward to this event again organised by Arnold Haddon for the Cancer ward that helped him recover and to show our support. They raised over £1000 last year and I am sure it won't be far off that again this.
The day started with me being on time this week and managed to say hi to a few people i hadn't seen for a while. We had heard that the Cliffs, Pines and creek had been fishing but with the wind blowing into North Farm Shore we couldn't resist it and dropped the anchor off Stone Barn Point as Mike calls it. It's great mickey take between us that he thinks the outer point is stone barn and the inner is North farm bay point. For me I call it the opposite way with North Farm shore point and stone barn bay point. Answers on a postcard too!!!
I started with a Di7 and a coral booby on the point and was into fish quite quickly and took two pulling quite quick. It then dried up and then we thought rather than drifting that we would work our way up North Farm shore anchoring for a short time. This was a great tactic and by 12 mike had put the next 5 in the boat on the same fly on a di5. In what was a great act he returned a brownie of over 2 lb too and it was great to see it swim off. In hindsight he would have won if he had kept it, but it is always nice to think you did the right thing.
We were getting a little restless by now as the fishing had gone off a little so we headed for the creek. After a few positions we anchored off the stumps down the creek and we were well into fish. I took two and mike one. They were however very small and when they dried up we headed back to North Farm shore.
The fish seemed to have come up in the water and we saw a boat near us have two on the floater and Bob Church next to us have one on the bung. I then changed up to a fast glass with black buzzers and the coral booby on the point - almost a reversal of the bung and fished almost static. It wasn't long and the line sailed away but would you believe it on the booby. I managed to have one more the same way as the fish swam along the shore and leveled us up on 6 a piece.
There was a lovely meal and presentation evening at the Royal Oak at Walgrave and it rounded the evening off perfectly.
In the final results my six went 10-14 and I pipped Mike into second place with 6 for 10lb 2. Julian Davies managed 3rd spot with 4 fish on his damsel and Bob Church in 4th place with four fish too. Bob was looking great this year now the medication has been corrected and he proved he can still hack it and enjoy the competition.
Thanks Arnold. A great day.
After a couple of days on Eyebrook with Mike you would have thought we would have been shattered and fed up of each other but fortunately not. I was looking forward to this event again organised by Arnold Haddon for the Cancer ward that helped him recover and to show our support. They raised over £1000 last year and I am sure it won't be far off that again this.
The day started with me being on time this week and managed to say hi to a few people i hadn't seen for a while. We had heard that the Cliffs, Pines and creek had been fishing but with the wind blowing into North Farm Shore we couldn't resist it and dropped the anchor off Stone Barn Point as Mike calls it. It's great mickey take between us that he thinks the outer point is stone barn and the inner is North farm bay point. For me I call it the opposite way with North Farm shore point and stone barn bay point. Answers on a postcard too!!!
I started with a Di7 and a coral booby on the point and was into fish quite quickly and took two pulling quite quick. It then dried up and then we thought rather than drifting that we would work our way up North Farm shore anchoring for a short time. This was a great tactic and by 12 mike had put the next 5 in the boat on the same fly on a di5. In what was a great act he returned a brownie of over 2 lb too and it was great to see it swim off. In hindsight he would have won if he had kept it, but it is always nice to think you did the right thing.
We were getting a little restless by now as the fishing had gone off a little so we headed for the creek. After a few positions we anchored off the stumps down the creek and we were well into fish. I took two and mike one. They were however very small and when they dried up we headed back to North Farm shore.
The fish seemed to have come up in the water and we saw a boat near us have two on the floater and Bob Church next to us have one on the bung. I then changed up to a fast glass with black buzzers and the coral booby on the point - almost a reversal of the bung and fished almost static. It wasn't long and the line sailed away but would you believe it on the booby. I managed to have one more the same way as the fish swam along the shore and leveled us up on 6 a piece.
There was a lovely meal and presentation evening at the Royal Oak at Walgrave and it rounded the evening off perfectly.
In the final results my six went 10-14 and I pipped Mike into second place with 6 for 10lb 2. Julian Davies managed 3rd spot with 4 fish on his damsel and Bob Church in 4th place with four fish too. Bob was looking great this year now the medication has been corrected and he proved he can still hack it and enjoy the competition.
Thanks Arnold. A great day.
Sunday 16 May 2010
Dave Currie's hot!
He may make a fine curry but Dave Currie fished fantastic in the Barclays National and led the Radbroke Hall team to a very convincing win by over 16lbs. Although he had caught 13 he weighed in the best bag of the day with 8 fish for 25lbs 4oz and also had the largest fish of the day at 6lb 9oz.
Fishing at Eyebrook the practice day had gone well enough and although we struggled to catch the many rising fish gorging themselves on buzzers we had a coral booby that was working well on a Di7, Di5 or fast glass. We swapped flies on the evening and while Powie gave me verbal because I only gave him 2 flies rather than twenty he was to eat his words and admit that at least mine were working.
36 anglers from across Barclays were all lined up and raring to go for the 37th Barclays National and after all the organising I was starting to relax now.
With everyone heading for the cow shed we were the only boat that pealed off and started in Sam's Dyke. Mike had two quickly and I had one and we made a good start. It then went very quiet and we headed down towards the cowshed. They by contrast had been catching well on daiwl bachs and things hadn't dried up. We muscled in and saw that Powie, Dave Currie and Paul Ravenscroft were catching consistently. We mooched about and settled behind Dave and manged another one. Mike changed to a midge tip and daiwl backs and a cast of 're verge' nylon he had. He then went and got snapped up twice and it was like cotton. I hope it's not all like that!. He changed nylon and did manage another.
I was tweaking back a tequila blob when the line was ripped out of my hand. I managed to keep control and after a hard fight I landed my best fish of the season so far a 5lb 13oz rainbow.
Powie had caught consistently in the morning and managed 7 and then after a move towards us managed to catch his eighth with only a short time to go with 7 of them on the coral booby on a midge tip. When the results were in he took the most fish trophy with 8 fish for over 22lb.
Barclaycard managed to come in well behind Radbroke but comfortably in second place and to cap it off John Clarke managed to take the best fish (not in winning bag)trophy with a 6lb 2 oz rainbow.
Overall we managed a catch return of 2.3 with 11 fish from the 81 over 4lbs. I will load up the full results in the next few days on my site www.troutfishers.com
Fishing at Eyebrook the practice day had gone well enough and although we struggled to catch the many rising fish gorging themselves on buzzers we had a coral booby that was working well on a Di7, Di5 or fast glass. We swapped flies on the evening and while Powie gave me verbal because I only gave him 2 flies rather than twenty he was to eat his words and admit that at least mine were working.
36 anglers from across Barclays were all lined up and raring to go for the 37th Barclays National and after all the organising I was starting to relax now.
With everyone heading for the cow shed we were the only boat that pealed off and started in Sam's Dyke. Mike had two quickly and I had one and we made a good start. It then went very quiet and we headed down towards the cowshed. They by contrast had been catching well on daiwl bachs and things hadn't dried up. We muscled in and saw that Powie, Dave Currie and Paul Ravenscroft were catching consistently. We mooched about and settled behind Dave and manged another one. Mike changed to a midge tip and daiwl backs and a cast of 're verge' nylon he had. He then went and got snapped up twice and it was like cotton. I hope it's not all like that!. He changed nylon and did manage another.
I was tweaking back a tequila blob when the line was ripped out of my hand. I managed to keep control and after a hard fight I landed my best fish of the season so far a 5lb 13oz rainbow.
Powie had caught consistently in the morning and managed 7 and then after a move towards us managed to catch his eighth with only a short time to go with 7 of them on the coral booby on a midge tip. When the results were in he took the most fish trophy with 8 fish for over 22lb.
Barclaycard managed to come in well behind Radbroke but comfortably in second place and to cap it off John Clarke managed to take the best fish (not in winning bag)trophy with a 6lb 2 oz rainbow.
Overall we managed a catch return of 2.3 with 11 fish from the 81 over 4lbs. I will load up the full results in the next few days on my site www.troutfishers.com
Monday 10 May 2010
Julian Davies wins MNTFA Pitsford boat match
Congratulations to Julian Davies who managed to catch the biggest bag of 8 fish to take the Bruce Richardson Trophy.
It all started for me a bit rushed as I lost track of the time. When I walked on to the boat platform having arrived late I was greeted with a round of applause for turning up - cheeky buggers!
I knew where I wanted to go though and Phil thought the same so we were out at the front of the flotilla heading for Pitsford Creek. Mike and Ash were out in front and they took A1 position and anchored off the point of table bay and the creek. We popped in just in front and it felt nice.
I started on a Di7, booby and blobs but it started very slowly for me. It was Phil who got off to great start catching a couple of fish on a blob on a slow intermediate. I cam up in the water to a Di3 but Phil carried on catching on a damsel. The fish seemed to be coming round every now and again but they were tightly shoaled.
My back was too Mike and Ash and although we exchanged a bit of chat I didn't keep my eye on them. It was only at 1pm when Mike had bagged up that I realised they were catching. In actual fact Ash had bagged up at 12 o'clock on blobs and boobies. Fortunately before they headed off they told me what they were doing and although it was similar to me it gave me the confidence to persevere. Powie and John were struggling too and jumped in their spot.
Fortunately I caught quite quickly and after a move into table bay i managed to catch slow but consistently on an orange booby.
Richard and Nick were drifting all day and managed to pull a few fish from a few different shoals after anchored boats kept pinching their drifts they managed to find a shoal to themselves in the creek. Stuart and Matthew sat on a shoal off Pitsford car park and could see that they then started to catch consistently.
I managed to catch my last couple of fish in the last half hour just as the fish started to rise. Phil had a nice 3 and a half pounder on a cruncher and spent the last 10 minutes sweating on his last fish but unfortunately ended on 7.
Julian and Grant however had settled in the small half off the may tree bank and managed to get into some bigger fish that had been naturalised a little more than the fresh stockies we had been catching. One of Julians largest fish was just a couple ounces below 4lbs.
The day was topped off with a great meal in the lodge provided by The Chequers at Ravensthorpe - very civilised!!
It all started for me a bit rushed as I lost track of the time. When I walked on to the boat platform having arrived late I was greeted with a round of applause for turning up - cheeky buggers!
I knew where I wanted to go though and Phil thought the same so we were out at the front of the flotilla heading for Pitsford Creek. Mike and Ash were out in front and they took A1 position and anchored off the point of table bay and the creek. We popped in just in front and it felt nice.
I started on a Di7, booby and blobs but it started very slowly for me. It was Phil who got off to great start catching a couple of fish on a blob on a slow intermediate. I cam up in the water to a Di3 but Phil carried on catching on a damsel. The fish seemed to be coming round every now and again but they were tightly shoaled.
My back was too Mike and Ash and although we exchanged a bit of chat I didn't keep my eye on them. It was only at 1pm when Mike had bagged up that I realised they were catching. In actual fact Ash had bagged up at 12 o'clock on blobs and boobies. Fortunately before they headed off they told me what they were doing and although it was similar to me it gave me the confidence to persevere. Powie and John were struggling too and jumped in their spot.
Fortunately I caught quite quickly and after a move into table bay i managed to catch slow but consistently on an orange booby.
Richard and Nick were drifting all day and managed to pull a few fish from a few different shoals after anchored boats kept pinching their drifts they managed to find a shoal to themselves in the creek. Stuart and Matthew sat on a shoal off Pitsford car park and could see that they then started to catch consistently.
I managed to catch my last couple of fish in the last half hour just as the fish started to rise. Phil had a nice 3 and a half pounder on a cruncher and spent the last 10 minutes sweating on his last fish but unfortunately ended on 7.
Julian and Grant however had settled in the small half off the may tree bank and managed to get into some bigger fish that had been naturalised a little more than the fresh stockies we had been catching. One of Julians largest fish was just a couple ounces below 4lbs.
The day was topped off with a great meal in the lodge provided by The Chequers at Ravensthorpe - very civilised!!
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