Fishing Reports 8th May 2006

Rutland Water Rutland Water is fishing exceptionally well. The best rainbow of the week weighed 4lb 4oz and was taken by John Cook of Mansfield. R Wightman of Usk took the best brown at 8lb. A lot of fish have been caught by both bank and boat anglers. Boat anglers are taking just short of 6 fish per rod, with bank anglers recording 3.1. The fish are full of daphnia and black buzzers. A number of Osprey have returned to Rutland Water and at least one pair is currently incubating chicks. Osprey can occasionally be seen fishing, usually at the east end of Rutland Water. Keep up to date with all of our fishing news – best areas, methods and competition news on www.anglianwaterleisure.co.uk this site also has a link to the Osprey Project

Best rainbow 4lb 4oz taken by John Cox of Mansfield Best brown 8lb taken by R Wightman of Usk Best boat areas Yellowstone, main basin, New Zealand point and Barnsdale Creek Best bank areas blue pipes, Yellowstone, fishing lodge harbour Best methods floating lines, black/green buzzers and diawl bachs for bank anglers. Boat anglers – floating, slow sink lines, diawl bach, buzzers black/green,wetcel 2

Grafham Water has come alive this week with plenty of action from a number of big matches. There have also been numerous large fish caught with most anglers having at least one 3lb plus fish in their bag. Bob Summers of Millbank, Scotland took the best rainbow of the week – a superb 8lb 14oz specimen, that was a personal best for Bob. This cracking rainbow was taken on a black buzzer under the bung on Sunday from a boat at the willows.

The fish are responding to most methods of attack from buzzers under the bung to pulled boobies and blobs on Di 5 lines. The best brown of the week went to Andy Tamakloe who was practicing for the Midlands heat of the Anglian Water Fulling Mill International on Saturday. Andy, who fishes for the Hanningfield Phoenix team, took a brown of 8lb 1oz on a cats whisker booby on the hang from the Seat area.

Best rainbow 8lb 14oz taken by Bob Summers of Millbank, Scotland Best brown 8lb 1oz taken by Andy Tamakloe Best boat areas Hill Farm, Pig Bay, Hedge End, G buoy, Willows, north and south dam Best bank areas Marlow Stones, G bank, north dam, deep water poin, hill farm Best methods floating lines – buzzers, damsel nymphs and diawl bachs sinkers - boobies, GRHE and damsel nymphs, orange blob.

Pitsford Water On Sunday Pitsford Water hosted the Leicester Fly Fishers Spring Pairs match, fished to an amazing 6.6 rod average. Top pair was season permit holder Gordon Bramwell and Stan Lord. They landed 16 fish for 53lb 7oz. In second place was Kevin Cook and boat partner Ashley Davis, they also boated 16 fish for 46lb 12oz. Dan Rowley caught best fish of the match - a rainbow of 4lb 5oz. Fish were caught on floating lines with buzzers and diawl bachs scoring along with the washing line method. Most
fish were caught between Brixworth Bay and Ash Tree Bay.

Mick Facey and Tony Deighton won the East Midlands Trout Fishers Association Spring Pairs. They caught 11 fish for 28lb 12oz. with Tony taking a rainbow of 4lb - the best fish of the match. B Charnley and Paul Telling were second with 11 fish for 27lb 1oz. In third place were B Storer and Bill Knight with ten fish for 24lb 7oz. Father and son duo Paul and Ray Harnwell of Wootton, Northampton, boat fished on Sunday. Not only was it Paul’s first sighting of a Pitsford trout, but the pair both had their limit! They are both graduates of one of Pitsford’s Beginners courses under the expert tuition of Nathan Clayton. They anchored near Brixworth Bay and caught all of their fish on nymphs.

Dennis Footman, a part time Pitsford warden, and boat partner Mal Wright had a good session on Tuesday off the Pines with Mal having ten fish to 3lb and 15 to 3½lb-4lb all on diawl bachs and buzzers. Bank sport has been good with the best time either early morning or after 6pm when the water comes alive. Top spots are the Pines or Brixworth Bay or the Cliffs and Ash Tree Bay. Best rainbow 6lb taken by Mark Davis of Hendsford, West Midlands Best boat areas Sailing Club Bay, Brixworth Bay and Pines Best bank areas Brixworth Bay- Pines –Gorse - Gravels Best methods long leaders on floating lines with various Diawl Bachs and buzzers best fished slowly. Intermediate and Di3 also good when using bright fritz patterns. The fish are feeding heavily on daphnia and buzzers

BRISTOL WATER FISHERY REPORTS
WEATHER:At last some consistent fishing conditions – soft, mild days with mainly light winds, some cloud but often bright & sunny. Still very cold at night. WATER:With no rain this week the levels have fallen slightly. Water quality remains very good except at Litton where a small green algal bloom has started. The water temperature at 1 metre has risen to 13°C (55°f).

CHEW: A great week for boat anglers but still quite difficult for the bank fishermen. For the first time this season fish have been feeding well all over the lake and anglers have been catching on most methods and many differing patterns. The best catches have seemed to fall to nymphs with Diawl Bachs and Black Buzzers taking the bulk of the catches. Where the bank fishermen access deep water, Nunnery & North Shore, they have managed to catch, but fish seem to be avoiding the shallower areas in the clear water. The boats have found fish in most places but the best sport has come from Wick, Nunnery, North Shore and around the Island. Best fish of the week was a 6.08 brown caught by DAVE MINALL from Herons Green on a size 12 Diawl Bach.

The SW heats of the Lexus European Open Teams Competition was fished this week. 12 teams competed for a place in the English final to be fished at Chew later in the year. The 72 competitors managed to take 344 fish, a rod average of 4.8, and a fantastic average weight of 2lb 6oz. Individual winner was the youngest fisherman on the day, KEIRON JENKINS and the captor of the heaviest fish was KEITH TANNER, a fish of 4.11. Top three teams were Kingfishers, BRFFA Orvis and Blagdon FF.

BLAGDON: Fishing from the bank continues to be very hard despite a stocking this week. Suggestions are that the fish are reluctant to come inshore in the very clear water. Boat anglers are still enjoying good sport in the deeper areas with most fish coming to nymphs and buzzers. Butcombe Bay is still proving very popular but increasing numbers of anglers are finding plenty of fish at the Top end of the lake.

BARROW: Fishing has become more difficult at No 3 but No 1 is now fishing much better as the water clears. More fish are being taken on nymphs and dries and the mouse appears to be less successful.

LITTON:Litton has coloured during the past week and this has made fishing more difficult. However, this algal bloom should not last long and fishing should soon improve again.

PROSPECTS. Although the nights remain cold the warmer days will encourage even more fly life at all the lakes. Corixa numbers will increase too Evening and morning fishing should improve for the bank anglers and the boat fishing at both lakes should be at it’s best over the next few weeks.

River Ribble Below summer level, water temperature 59 degrees Few trout taken on emergers, some fish taken on hawthorne flies and grannoms. A good fish taken upstream of Ribchester on a Pheasant tail nymph. Odd seatrout taken from tidal length prospects for seatrout not good until the river gets a good lift.

River Aire Very low and clear, water temperature 60 degrees F. Trout rather spooky as one would expect under the current conditions, rain badly needed. Five cormorants seen on Bradford City AA water. Three goosanders with large numbers of young on the river between Kildwick and Gargrave

Coarse fishing Taverham The Carp are moving around a lot this week with the warmer weather. Season ticket holder Mark Grey had a great week getting a new personal best and some other good Carp. 13lb 4oz common, 8lb Stockie, 18lb Common, 25lb 15oz Mirror, 13lb 8oz Common. Season ticket
holder Christine Weir banked her first two carp at 8lb and 12lb
fish plus Tench..Season ticket holder Mark Chamberlin banked a 22lb Mirror. Season ticket holder Kirk Phoenix had a 19lb Mirror. Warden Darren ‘Splash’ Hardy banked a 15lb 4oz Common. Day ticket anglers are banking plenty of Tench and small carp

Ardleigh There have been some more big carp caught this week. Simon Partridge had 2 mirrors of 14lb and 24lb while fishing at Wick Lane. Rob Gurney had a lovely 27lb 10oz mirror -the second time he's caught the same fish in a week! New season permit holder Janet Moore had a very nice 16lb ghost carp. The Wick Lane Lake continues to fish well with excellent mixed bags being reported by Steve Bird, Bob Lambert and Del Peters all with similar bags of roach, rudd, perch and skimmers. On the pike front Paul Southgate had a 15lb fish while bank fishing on the western arm.



















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