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How has it been for you this

year? I shall remember 2008

for the winds. For three

months I poured over the

weather forecasts to find a

Tuesday when I could go to

Rutland and not get drenched

as one motored back up the

drift. I eventually found one

with light winds and cloud

cover – and the fishing was the

best I ever experienced on

Rutland.

Whilst it may have little impact

on the Association, the

organisation of English Fly

Fishing is in turmoil. The

government has decided that

for grant and representational

purposes they will only relate

to a single angling body This

has forced the various branches

to work together to develop a

single angling organisation.

At the moment this is going to

be called The Angling Trust.

The Salmon and Trout

Association has previously

been recognised as the

organising body for fly fishing.

My understanding is that

because of its charitable status,

the S&TA is currently barred

from representing fly fishing

on this new body. At the

moment the S&TA have voted

not to give up their charity

status and will only have a

peripheral role.

The Angling Trust will be

formed in January. Its brief

includes managing �ational

and International Angling

Competitions and through an

associated organisation called

‘Fish Legal’, advice to

members. It will the only body

that Sports England recognises.

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2008 Association Champions

Rutland Water Fly Fishers

Results of the Autumn Association Match

FI�AL TABLE GROUP O�E

Team Rd1 Rd2 Rd3 Rd4 Rd5 Rd6 TOTAL POSITION

Rutland Water F.F. 3 4 5 5 6 5 28 1

Soldier Palmers 'A' 2 6 6 1 5 6 26 2

Bewl Bridge 'A' 6 2 3 6 4 3 24 3

Hanningfield F.A. 4 5 4 4 3 1 21 4

Fish Hawks 'A' 5 1 2 3 2 2 15 5

Bristol Reservoirs F.A. 1 3 1 2 1 4 12 6

GROUP O�E

�ame �o Weight

Bewl Bridge F.C. ‘A’ Tom Davis 3 6lbs 4oz

Ashley Davis 8 17lbs Phil Thompson 8 16lbs 12oz

Steve Buck 3 6lbs 14oz

TOTAL 46lbs 14oz

Bristol Reservoirs F.A. Tony George 2 3lbs 11oz

Peter Kemptoin 8 17lbs 6oz Pete Ford 8 17lbs 9oz

Peter de Kremer 5 10lbs 2oz

TOTAL 48lbs 12oz

Fish Hawks ‘A’ Ian Whiteside 6 12lbs 6oz Colin Faires 4 7lbs 11oz

Si Morris 3 5lbs 12oz

Ian Baker 3 6lbs

TOTAL 31lbs 13oz

Hanningfield F.A. Alan Stern 7 12lbs 4oz

Charlie Abrahams 1 2lbs

Ashley Livermore 2 3lbs 4oz Nathan Ineson 1 3lbs 4oz

TOTAL 20lbs 12oz

Rutland Water F.F. Mike Barrett 8 18lbs 5oz

Graham Pearson 8 17lbs 2oz

Al Owen 6 11lbs 2oz Mark Haycock 3 6lbs 10oz

TOTAL 53lbs 9oz

Soldier Palmers ‘A’ Andy Everett 8 18lbs 8oz

Wayne Jones 5 10lbs 1oz Tony Hoggart 3 6lbs 8oz

Andy Smith 8 20lbs

TOTAL 55lbs 1oz

Match Results All Groups

Best Team

Soldier Palmers ‘A’

55lbs 1oz

Best Individual

�ick Cox

Bewl Bridge F.C. ‘B’

20lbs 15oz

GROUP TWO

�ame �o Weight

Bewl Bridge F.C. ‘B’ David Little

Nick Cox 8 20lbs 15oz Doug Skins 4 8lbs 4oz

Jim McGonigle 5 9lbs 13oz

TOTAL 39lbs

Fish Hawks ‘B’ David Eames 4 7lbs 8oz Keith Jones 5 9lbs 12oz

Al Grice-Jackson 3 5lbs 8oz

Willie Edmond 2 4lbs 70z

TOTAL 27lbs 10z

Grafham Water F.A. Mark Brinkman 4 9lbs 8oz Chris Lane 1 1lb 13oz

Andy Linwood 5 11lbs 1oz Harley Smith 5 9lbs 12oz

TOTAL 32lbs 2oz

Soldier Palmers ‘A’

***

Best Team on Day

Receives the

Kew/Queen Mother

Plate

Presented

By Mickey Bewick

Iver F.C. Clive Collier 4 8lbs 4oz

Andrew Green 3 5lbs 9oz

Ron Lusardi 4 8lbs 1oz Roy Palmer 4 9lbs 30z

TOTAL 31lbs 1oz

Queen Mother F.F. Micky Bewick 2 4lbs

Al Munn 4 6lbs 8oz Jim Longmore 2 3lbs 9oz

Paul Weiss

TOTAL 14lbs 1oz

GROUP THREE

�ame �o Weight

Crawley F.C. Baz Reece 8 17lbs 3oz

Dell Fell 1 1lb 15oz

Alan Hall Peter Wyles

TOTAL 19lbs 2oz

Invicta F.C. ‘A’ Alan Taylor 6 13lbs 6oz

John Brownbridge 6 12lbs 2oz

Mike Smith 4 8lbs 3oz Carl Hunter 6 11lbs 3oz

TOTAL 44lbs 14oz

Invicta F.C. ‘B’ John Brown 1 2lbs 2oz

David Hardick 2 5lbs 5oz ***

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TOTAL 7lbs 7oz

Royal �avy/Marines Chris Anderson 1 2lbs 2oz

Ron Tutt 2 4lbs 10oz

Tony Wilkinson 6 13lbs 15oz Charles Bowers 6 13lbs 3oz

TOTAL 33lbs 14oz

Soldier Palmers ‘B’ John Gamon 2 3lbs 15oz

Tug Lawson 2 3lbs 6oz Jock Bending 8 14lbs 14oz

Jamie Thomas

TOTAL 22lbs 3oz

FI�AL TABLE GROUP TWO

Team Rd1 Rd2 Rd3 Rd4 Rd5 Rd6 TOTAL POSITION

Queen Mother 4 5 4 5 5 1 24 1

Grafham Water F.A. 2 4 3 2 4 4 19 2

Iver F.C. 3 2 5 4 1 3 18 3

Bewl Bridge 'B' 5 1 2 1 2 5 16 4

Fish Hawks 'B' 1 3 1 3 3 2 13 5

FI�AL TABLE GROUP THREE

Team Rd1 Rd2 Rd3 Rd4 Rd5 Rd6 TOTAL POSITION

Navy/ Marines 5 5 4 5 4 4 27 1

Invicta 'A' 3 4 5 4 5 5 26 2

Crawley F.C. 2 3 2 2 3 2 14 3

Soldier Palmers'B' 0 1 3 3 0 3 10 4

Invicta F.C. 'B' 4 2 1 1 0 1 9 5

GROUP�Three�Winners�

Royal �avy

and Marines

Receiving the

Essex Water Trophy

Group One – Rutland Water Fly Fishers - see previous for table and picture

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Queen

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Fly

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Receiving the

Anglian Water Trophy

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The Eddie Gray Cup

For

The Best Bag of the Day

Nick Cox

Bewl Bridge F.C.’A’

20lbs 15oz

The East Thames Aggregates

Shield

For

Largest Fish of the Season

Jock Bending

Soldier Palmers ‘B’

6lbs 6oz

The Lew Cass Cup

For

The Largest Fish in Lowest

Group (restricted to anglers who

have never won an Association

Trophy before)

John Mees

Invicta F.C. ‘A’

(Trophy collected by Alan

Taylor)

4lbs 2.5oz

Miserable Weather for the Autumn Association

Match on Rutland on Saturday 4th. October

Al Grice-Jackson of Fish Hawks’B’ takes an early fish

only yards from the harbour wall

Anglers were greeted with

unpleasantly cold temperatures

and a forecast of winds

strengthening to 20+ mph in

the afternoon.

Nevertheless, with only two

places (including relegation

places) already decided all but

one team (Invicta ‘B’) were

fully represented.

In order to be fair to all teams

Nigel Savage informed

everyone of a large stocking, in

Sailing Club Bay the previous

day.

Many had practiced the day

before and the boats split into

three groups and set off for the

known hot spots. One group

set off for Fantasy Island,

another turned left towards

Gibraltar Point and a small

group fished just outside the

harbour.

Whilst very cold the wind did

not start to blow until midday.

By 2.00pm it was so strong

that it became difficult to get

the line behind you. It did

warm up and blow less

viciously for the last hour.

Nevertheless most anglers

were pleased to come in.

With fish in many places it is

not surprising that a large

variety of methods and flies

worked.

Perhaps one of the most

unusual, which produced a

limit towards Fantasy Island

was hoppers pulled just sub

surface.

Many anglers used floating

lines and nymphs, but Graham

Pearson, fishing in the Sailing

Club Bay to Gibraltar Point

area used a fast sinking line

and blobs. He started his

drifts right on the edge of the

week beds and started pulling

before the line had sunk too

deep. Like many others he

found the morning the most

productive with six fish by

midday. It took him until

5.15pm to catch his other two

fish.

All the teams, who were

heading the table before the

match, achieved enough points

to remain in first place,

although none of them won on

the day.

Rutland, in group one, even

though they caught more fish

and had a larger time bonus,

were beaten by Soldier Palmers

by better average weight of

fish. (An unusual occurrence!).

In group two Queen Mother

F.F. came last on the day but

had already won the group.

The Royal Navy/Marines also

came second on the day to

Invicta ‘A’ but that was

enough to give them the Group

Three Title by one point.

At the bottom of the tables the

only change was in Group

Two. A winning performance

by Nick Cox of Bewl ‘B’ gave

them all five points. Just

enough to keep them from last

place.

Anything you can do! Alan Stern of Hanningfield (in the same

boat) catches one in the same place as his boat partner

Association Fun Day

On

Eyebrook Sunday 12th. October

�ame �o Weight

1. Invicta F.C. ‘B’ Steve Middleton 1 1lb 13oz Bob Ayres 2 4lbs 2oz

Paul Stevens 3 6lbs 5.5oz

Alan Taylor 1 2lbs 14oz

TOTAL 15lbs 2.5oz

2. Hanningfield Alan Stern 2 3lbs 8oz

Nigel Angus

Ashley Livermore 1 1lb 15oz Nathan Ireson 2 4lbs 13oz

TOTAL 10lbs 4oz

3. Odds & Sods Garry How 1 1lb 4oz

Harry Byrne 3 5lbs 15oz

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TOTAL 7lbs 3oz

4. The Committee Graden Smith 1 2lbs

Peter Firth 1 1lb 9oz Mike Clark

John Caldwell 1 3lbs 1oz

TOTAL 6lbs 10oz

5. Bob’ Bits Bob Sanger 1 1lb 8oz Alan Hall 2 5lbs

Martyn Borrows

Bob Birchall

TOTAL 6lbs 8oz

6. Invicta F.C. ‘A’ Graham Williams 2 3lbs 8oz Mark Searle 1 2lbs 1oz

Arthur Sexton

Mike Smith

TOTAL 5lbs 9oz

7. Grafham Water F.A. Norman Rushton

JohnTattersfield

Peter Hartley Richard Kesek 2 3lbs 7oz

TOTAL 3lbs 7oz

Best Boat Paul Stevens

Alan Taylor

Best Fish Alan Hall

The Weather for

theAssociation Fun Day was

FU�! Sunny, warm and with

only light winds.

The Fishing for the

Association Fun Day was �OT

FU�! With an average of

only one fish each it was

dreadful! Three out of the

thirteen boats failed to catch a

fish. Only one team managed

to scramble at

least one fish

each. Only

two anglers

managed three

fish and the

rest scraped

about for ones

and twos.

With fish so

scarce there

was no one

area, fly or

method which

deserves

recognition.

A few fish were caught early

on the eastern shore between

The Bell and the Old Road. In

the afternoon most boats ended

on the western shore between

Harrison’s Corner and the

Three Trees Point. Here the

closer you could get to the

bank the more chance there

was of a fish.

Most anglers used floating

lines but they were not

exclusively successful with a

few fish falling to

slow/intermediate lines.

Fish were caught on buzzers

types, minkies and fry patterns

and at least one angler (in

winning team) fished all

afternoon with a red hopper on

the surface for his one fish.

Who said this

was fun?

One of a few fish caught, tight up to the bank, in the early

afternoon drifting out from Harrison’s Corner

Invicta F.C.’B’ – Winners

7 fish for 15lbs2.5oz