River Wye

Another great day on the River Wye at Monseldale. It started great as Martin had a nice small brownie within the first 10 minutes. However the fish were not really on. There were Mayfly hatching most of the day but there were not that many fish rising. Most of the fish caught were on dry mayfly but they seemed to come on in short spells and the luck wasn't with me today as when they were on i was looking at flies, butterflies, birds, aquatic insects or appreciating the wonderful place - never mind a great place to be!

My last national to organise

This was my last National to organise as i handed over to Dave Mynors to take it up going forward and one i didn't particularly enjoy as the weather wasn't great, the fishing wasn't great and i seem to be doing it for others now not myself. Never the less the 24 anglers caught 38 fish in a cold wind when the fish had switched off the feed which meant it was an open match where the result would be decided by consistency of the team fishing which can't be a bad thing. Also rather than deciding the result by weight of everyone bagging up, this was down to numbers. The South team won on the day with 13 fish for 28lbs and Barclaycard 2nd with 7 fish for 19lbs 7. Simon Summers too the best individual bag with 4 fish for 11lbs 1 and in the prizes again was late entrant Mike Philpott with the bast fish a 3lbs 12 Rainbow. I managed a couple of excellent trout both over 3 lbs and also a cracking perch at least over 2 maybe more, fought great.