ANGLIAN WATER REPORTS W/E 3RD JUNE

Rutland Water

fish for week 1495(16805) returns 467 (4512) rod average 3.2(3.72)

In a week when Rutland Water celebrated its 30^th anniversary John Seaton, senior warden, met two Devon anglers who have fished Rutland every year for the past 30 years. John Glanfield (75) and Richard Powlesland (62), recalled many happy hours fishing Rutland’s banks. They remembered the very first morning in 1977 when they arrived at Whitwell Creek. It was still dark with the moon quite high in the sky when a van, containing a TV crew, drew alongside. That night when the pair phoned home their wives already knew they had enjoyed a good day’s fishing – they were featured on national T.V. Over the years they have caught fish in almost all areas – the fish seem to get bigger. Their favourite method is floating lines and buzzers.

Rutland Water continues to attract anglers from far and wide. Amongst the best returns for the week was Eric Glaister and his party of five from Carlisle, Cumbria. During their 3 day boat package this group caught 112 rainbows averaging between 2½-3lb. Most of these fish were caught in the Hideaway Bay area on buzzers.

Competition news

International Fly Fishing Association Spring Match

Rob Sosbe of Market Harborough put in an outstanding performance to take best bag with 11 fish for 22lb 8.875oz. Other season ticket anglers fishing for England included Andrew Green, Simon Gaines, Chris Bobby, Richard Kesek and Peter Hartley. Peter is also a popular fly fishing instructor for Anglian Water. Kenny Hunter fishing for Scotland took the biggest fish at 3lb 13.625oz.

1^st England 84 fish for 172lb 7.375oz

2^nd Scotland 65 fish for 144lb 14oz

3^rd Wales 54 fish for 110lb .625oz

4^th Ireland 51 fish for 99lb 15.375oz

RWFF Cutting Trophy

This bank match on Friday evening attracted 12 anglers. In difficult conditions of bright sunshine and light winds fish were caught widely but mainly from Normanton and Dickensons. Roy Taylor, the winner, caught on dries with runner up Richard Cooper catching with an orange booby on an intermediate. There were many fish rising all evening, although a number were hooked and lost.

1^st Roy Taylor 5 fish for 10b 1oz

2^nd Richard Cooper 5 fish for 9lb 2oz

3^rd Peter Gover 3 fish for 7lb 10oz

Tuesday Night Boat League

The winner this week was Richard Cooper with 5 fish for 13lb 12oz, this included the best fish of the match at 3lb 3oz.

Rutland Water continued

best rainbow 6lb 3oz taken by Rick Broome of Whissendine

best brown 6lb 7oz taken by Jamie Weston of Empingham

best boat areas Normanton, Berrybutts, Sailing Club

best bank areas Normanton, Sailing Club to New Zealand Point, Whitwell front.

best methods floating lines, or sinking tip,. Buzzers and dries.

mid week boat winner A Jerman of London

forthcoming events Tuesday night boat league

Beginners courses 10,16, 20 & 30 June and other dates throughout the season

Anglian Water Floating Line Competition 9 June

English Ladies National 24 June

Scierra UK Pairs Heat 27-28 June

Grafham Water

fish for week 652 (9343) returns 207 (2206) rod average 3.14 (4.23)

Jim Connell of Manchester caught the biggest fish of the week. Jim caught a cracking over wintered Rainbow of 6lb 5oz on a slime line with a diawl bach from Hedge End. The biggest bag of the week was taken by local angler Ian Heading. Ian, from Great Staughton, had an 8 fish bag for 30lb 2oz. He caught this tremendous limit on a di7 line with a silver and pearl tube fly in the middle of the reservoir.

Grafham has fished well this week with the majority of the trout being taken on boobies or small nymphs on slime lines at the Bowl of the Dam. Bank anglers have found the fishing challenging this week as the trout seem to be moving into the deeper water as the weather has warmed considerably and has got a lot brighter. However, anglers have had some success generally by fishing early morning or late e

Pitsford Water

fish for week 274 (7579) returns 116 (2472) rod average 2.3 (3.0)

Pitsford regular Colin Johnson of Northampton, landed a superb Rainbow of 7lb 11oz. Colin fished from a boat using intermediate line and a blob in the Sailing Club area of the reservoir. John Fletcher of Desborough, Kettering, caught the biggest brown of the week. This 6lb 2oz fish fought hard and fell to a small buzzer on a floating line in the Sailing Club Bay.

Lots of other good fish have been reported between the 4lb and 6lb bracket mostly from the Sailing Club area and off the bank at the Gravels. Best methods are static nymphs or dries on a floating line. Boat anglers have had some good sport in the small half. Floating lines with damsels or dries, the dries seem to work either early or late in the day.

The first Boat Buddies event was held last Tuesday at Pitsford. Three experienced anglers gave up their evening to show three new starter anglers the skills that they have learned themselves. With perfect conditions they all fished the small half and managed a fish or two! Malcolm Williamson, new starter, thought it was a great idea and said that he had learned more in these three hours than in two seasons!

best rainbow 7lb 11oz taken by Colin Johnson

best brown 6lb 2oz taken by John Fletcher

best boat areas small half – main bowl –sailing club bay

best bank areas Sermans Bank and Pines. Gorse and Gravel banks

best methods see report

mid week boat winner James Alexander of Moulton

fish stocked 559

forthcoming events Wednesday night boat league friendly evening match, starts 6pm. £7.50 for season ticket holders, £20.50 day tickets, just turn up before 6pm.

boat buddies Tuesdays 26 June & 17 July. Book in at the Fishing Lodge

beginners club 24 June, 22 July

Please book in at the Fishing Lodge

beginners courses 21 July, 4 & 23 August and other dates throughout the season

Ravensthorpe Reservoir

fish for week 302(season7411) returns 104 (1416) rod average 3.0 (5.2)

Barry Rudge had 20 plus fish on dries and emergers off the bank. Boat regular Dick Haynes of Ravensthorpe also got into the twenties, including four 11lb fish returned off GRHE.

The best methods this week for both boat and bank anglers have been to fish dries and emergers, hoppers and GRHE being best. A few fish have fallen to twitched damsel nymphs plus one or two from pulled lures (black best).

best rainbow 13lb 8oz taken by Terry Pancoust.

best boat areas drifting loch style, dries and emergers

best bank areas top platforms, mongers and dam

fish stocked 310

coarse fishing

Ardleigh

The pike anglers must have had one of the best opening months at the reservoir in recent times, and there is currently no sign of it slowing up. Colin Smith and his son fished two very hectic boat sessions landing 18 fish over the two days. Best fish on the first day pulled the scales down to 17lb, and on the second visit Colin had seven doubles to 14lb. Other successful anglers include Tim Parker who had 8 fish during one boat session, all were double figure fish and Colin Easter had six to 14lb.

On the main reservoir Jason Butterfield had a superb 29lb ghost common and Mark Chapman had a nice 14lb mirror from the western arm. Ian Symington had 10 skimmer bream and 3 bigger fish.

The Wick Lane lake continues to produce excellent mixed bags and promises to remain clear of weed. Noel Woods had 8 bream to 6lb plus an 8lb tench. Nigel Mills had a good mixed bag of roach, rudd and perch and Lee Cowan also had several bream best of which was over vening at the Seat, Stumps, Deep Water Point and bowl of the dam, mainly on buzzers, diawl bachs and crunchers on intermediate or midge tip lines. The boat anglers have had the best of the sport with plenty of anglers catching good bags of fish generally by fishing the deeper areas of the reservoir, bowl of dam , central drifts, G, T and D buoys. The anglers are generally catching on diawl bachs, buzzers, crunchers, boobies and cormorants on a variety of lines from floaters to di7’s.

Grafham Water continued

Competition News

Ladies Flyfishing International 2007

On Thursday 31 May Grafham Water hosted the Ladies International with four teams of 14 ladies from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Wales were clear winners with a good all-round team performance, plus the heaviest individual catch of the day coming from Marian Davies with a bag weight of 7 fish for 15lb 13¾oz. The winning Welsh method was to fish a slime line with a black and gold boobie on the point with two diawl bachs at the bowl of the dam with a steady figure of eight retrieve. The Welsh ladies caught 50 fish for 113lb 7¾oz. Scotland pipped England for second place but local angler Louise Callow from Arlesey, Beds was top English rod. Louise and Scarlet Hodges, fishing in their first ever International competitions automatically qualify for next year's team.

Ireland were fourth with their team captain, Anne McWilliams catching the biggest fish of the day at 3lb 9 1/8oz.

Everyone was complimentary about the event and the winning Welsh captain congratulated Anglian Water on running such a good fishery and for having such helpful staff at Grafham Water.

1^st Wales 50 fish for 113lb 7¾oz

2^nd Scotland 34 fish for 74lb 13oz

3^rd England 33 fish for 70lb 7¼oz

4^th Ireland 17 fish for 38lb 6 1/8oz

best rainbow 6lb 5oz caught by Jim Connell of Manchester with a slime line and diawl bach from Hedge End

best boat areas bowl of dam, G T and D buoys, hedge End, Stumps

best bank areas Seat, deep Water Point, Stumps, G Buoy, bowl of dam

mid week boat winner P Foster from Rowley Regis

fish stocked 2000

forthcoming events Beginners courses 17 & 27 June, 1 & 15 July

boat course 27 June

Tuesday evening boat league