Newsletter 2012 Newsletter 2012 Newsletter 2012 Newsletter 2012 All the Results All the Results All the Results All the Results – All the Reports All the Reports All the Reports All the Reports OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER OCTOBER One Pound Seven Ounces after 256 Individual Hours of Fishing Just twenty three ounces was the difference between Grafham ‘A’ Team becoming Champions in 2012 and being overtaken by two times winners – Rutland. Grafham needed not less than two points difference between them and Rutland to take the Championship. Rutland took second place. Grafham were only these few ounces better than the Navy/Marines and took fourth rather than fifth place. Had they failed to do so they would have had equal points with Rutland and on a count back of total weights thro’ the season Rutland would have topped the Group. I think most would agree it is always good to have a new name on the Association Trophy and we congratulate them. Bonanza – but will it last? There is no doubt that Dikerogammarus villusis, the ‘killer shrimp’ has given anglers some magnificent fishing on Grafham. It tends to concentrate around the marginal stones and gives bank anglers as good a chance as boat anglers. Below is one half spooning from one fish caught hard against the stones in Rectory Bay. As with all shrimp fed fish the trout are in superb condition and fighting fit. For those who eat trout their table quality is second to none. The shrimp population is immense. The problem is the future of other species – buzzers in particular – because these shrimp kill above their weight and indiscriminately. The buzzer larva population at Grafham is almost unbelievable. It is possibly larger than that found on Loch Leven in Scotland in 1989 at 32,669 per square metre. To loose these would be a disaster, for both the ecology of the lake and would have a major impact on the fishing. Superb shrimp fed rainbows 25 th . Anniversary It is possible that our earliest archives are incomplete. I am not sure if the first season of the AMFC was 1988 or 1989? This would make next year, or the year after (2014) our 25 th Anniversary. I am sure that the first season was the year that Grafham and Rutland were closed because of the Blue/Green Algae. The first match of that season was fished on Rutland and the final match of that season was due to be fished at Grafham and had to be cancelled and transferred (I think) to Bewl. If anyone can remember which year it was that the reservoirs were closed please let me know. It would be embarrassing if we celebrated 25 years either too early or too late!
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Newsletter 2012Newsletter 2012Newsletter 2012Newsletter 2012 All the Results All the Results All the Results All the Results –––– All the ReportsAll the ReportsAll the ReportsAll the Reports
OCTOBEROCTOBEROCTOBEROCTOBER
One Pound Seven
Ounces after 256
Individual Hours of
Fishing
Just twenty three ounces was
the difference between
Grafham ‘A’ Team becoming
Champions in 2012 and being
overtaken by two times
winners – Rutland.
Grafham needed not less than
two points difference between
them and Rutland to take the
Championship. Rutland took
second place. Grafham were
only these few ounces better
than the Navy/Marines and
took fourth rather than fifth
place.
Had they failed to do so they
would have had equal points
with Rutland and on a count
back of total weights thro’ the
season Rutland would have
topped the Group.
I think most would agree it is
always good to have a new
name on the Association
Trophy and we congratulate
them.
Bonanza – but will it
last?
There is no doubt that
Dikerogammarus villusis, the
‘killer shrimp’ has given
anglers some magnificent
fishing on Grafham. It tends
to concentrate around the
marginal stones and gives bank
anglers as good a chance as
boat anglers.
Below is one half spooning
from one fish caught hard
against the stones in Rectory
Bay.
As with all shrimp fed fish the
trout are in superb condition
and fighting fit. For those who
eat trout their table quality is
second to none.
The shrimp population is
immense. The problem is the
future of other species –
buzzers in particular – because
these shrimp kill above their
weight and indiscriminately.
The buzzer larva population at
Grafham is almost
unbelievable. It is possibly
larger than that found on Loch
Leven in Scotland in 1989 at
32,669 per square metre. To
loose these would be a disaster,
for both the ecology of the lake
and would have a major impact
on the fishing.
Superb shrimp fed rainbows
25th. Anniversary
It is possible that our earliest
archives are incomplete. I am
not sure if the first season of
the AMFC was 1988 or 1989?
This would make next year, or
the year after (2014) our 25th
Anniversary.
I am sure that the first season
was the year that Grafham and
Rutland were closed because of
the Blue/Green Algae.
The first match of that season
was fished on Rutland and the
final match of that season was
due to be fished at Grafham
and had to be cancelled and
transferred (I think) to Bewl.
If anyone can remember which
year it was that the reservoirs
were closed please let me
know. It would be
embarrassing if we celebrated
25 years either too early or too
late!
The 2012 Autumn Association
Match was fished on Grafham
in excellent conditions.
Practice day had seen a strong
wind and cloud. Match day
had light winds and sun. Most
anglers expected the sun to
have a negative influence on
the fishing. In the event the
bright sun had only a marginal
effect on the catch rates.
Group One had an average of
5.1 fish per angler – Group
Two 4.3 – Group Three 5.3 and
Group Four 2.9. These figures
gave a match average of 4.8.
Any match average over 4.0
usually indicates a good, but
not ridiculously easy match.
This was the case for this
match.
Most boats headed for the
North Shore. With the area
along Church Bay to the Dam
Wall the most popular end of
the reservoir. One early
finisher cast his flies onto the
Dam Wall and caught as the
flies were pulled into the water.
A significant number of fish
were patrolling along the
margins. The Dam Wall and
the newly constructed stone
walls (to control erosion) along
most of the North Shore was
alive with shrimp. It was here
that many fish were caught –
although not exclusively on
shrimp patterns.
Those anglers who took short
drifts into the margins tended
to use floating lines and
nymphs – those who fished a
little further out used a greater
variety of lines, flies and
methods.
In the ‘hot spots’ fishing
pressure was intense and catch
rates slowed down in the
afternoon. Over a third of
those anglers who claimed a
time bonus did so by fishing
close the last hour of the
match.
Mention must be made of the
attendance at the post match
events. Almost everyone
stayed for the Presentations.
Autumn Association Match
Fished at Grafham Water on Saturday 5th. October
*****
Superb Fishing in the Margins
Anticipation! Ready for thAnticipation! Ready for thAnticipation! Ready for thAnticipation! Ready for the ‘OFF’e ‘OFF’e ‘OFF’e ‘OFF’
Individual Results
Autumn Association Match
With three of their anglers having best fish over 4lbs
SOLDIER PALMER ‘A’ Receive the
Kew/QM Plate Best Team in an Association Match
Left
With Best Fish and Best Bag
Paul Lee of Soldier Palmers ‘A’ Wins
The Eddie Gray Cup
Group One ame o Weight
Bewl Bridge F.C. ‘A’ Steve Collins 8 23lbs 14oz
Hugh Frew 8 19lbs 2oz
Bill Rankin 8 18lbs 1oz Dave Withers 8 17lbs 7oz
TOTAL 78lbs 8oz
Fish Hawks ‘B’ Dave Eames 5 11lbs 11oz
Si Gaines 7 18lbs 12oz
Kerry Richardson 6 15lbs 1oz Dan Taylor 5 9lbs 14oz
TOTAL 5lbs 6oz
Grafham Water F.F.A.’A’ Nick Preston 8 18lbs 8oz
Andy Linwood 2 3lbs 13oz Mark Brinkman 8 20lbs 12oz
Joan Russell 4 9lbs 1oz
TOTAL 52lbs 2oz
Royal avy/Marines Chris Anderson 2 4lbs 8oz Ed Smith 3 7lbs 10oz
Mark Glass 8 23lbs 9oz
Steve Scott 5 9lbs 1oz
TOTAL 50lbs 11oz
Rutland Water F.F. Paul Wild 5 10lbs 3oz Graham Pearson 8 16lbs 11oz
Ron Gent 8 18lbs 5oz
Al Owen 7 12lbs 14oz
TOTAL 58lbs 1oz
Group Three
Bewl Bridge F.C. ‘A’ Russell Bell 1 2lbs 9oz
Ken Holmes 4 7lbs 13oz Ian Watts 7 15lbs 7oz
Ralph Painter 6 14lbs 2oz
TOTAL 39lbs 15oz
England Police Chris Reeves 7 16lbs 15oz Dave Summers 3 6lbs 7oz
Doug Skins 8 23lbs 14oz
Mark Mathieson 8 21lbs 4oz
TOTAL 68lbs 8oz
Fish Hawks ‘B’ Lloyd Thompson 5 10lbs 9oz Lee Radcliffe 2 4lbs 8oz
Mark Grove 6 11lbs 8oz
Vince Cork 5 10lbs 12oz
TOTAL 37lbs 5oz
Invicta F.C. ‘A’ Graham Williams 8 18lbs 13oz
Mark Searle 4 8lbs 10oz
Kieron Bonus 5 11lbs 13oz Ron Lusardi 6 14lbs 5oz
TOTAL 53lbs 9oz
Group Two ame o Weight
Bristol Reeservoirs F.F.A. John Bowan 5 11lbs 8oz
Dan Hurley 1 2lbs 2oz
Paul Sharman 6 13lbs 5oz Graham Currie 5 13lbs 7oz
TOTAL 40lbs 6oz
Hanningfield F.A. Dave Bromley 2 3lbs 15oz
Alan Stern 3 6lbs 11oz
Dave Franklin 7 15lbs 9oz Stewart Pimblett 3 6lbs 4oz