Bob Sharp at Denford

A report about a trip on the 1st November.

On 1st November, Bob Ayres and me were fortunate enough to get a day on the Denford Fishery on the
River Kennett. This is a small estate of mainly carrier fishing which has undergone drastic
improvements over the last 4 years, after it seems, years of neglect .As yet, it is not completely settled down.

Big catches are not yet the order of the day at Denford, the fishing, in the main, is not easy, but the Estate is very pleasant and [...]

November 19th, 2019|

Speaker Evening – Mark Turner

Our speaker this month was Mark Turner. Mark started the evening by tying a basic nymph fly and and then showing how, by the addition of a slightly different material into the dressing, you can change the appearance of the fly and the way that it will catch fish. He followed this by tying an “Irish” Mayfly which is much more heavily dressed than those that we would tie here. After tea and coffee Mark showed us how to tie on a wing and stressed the importance of matching the two sides [...]

February 21st, 2016|

26th September 2015:  The Martin Grant Memorial Trophy (Heaviest bag)

This competition was held at Farmoor and was a boat contest involving fly tying in the morning and then using those flies to catch four fish in the afternoon, the winner weighing in the heaviest bag.  Five anglers took part.

The morning started at 09:30 with us seated around a table in the back room at Farmoor as usual John Goldie was late and when he did turn up was locked out of the building by the Ranger who had to go and sort out a boat problem.  Eventually John [...]

October 6th, 2015|

22nd August 2015: Friendly competition (Heaviest fish)

This competition was held on Farmoor II and was a boat contest with most people choosing a catch and release ticket which allowed one fish to be kept to weight-in, the winner weighing in the heaviest fish.  Seven anglers took part.

The weather was forecast to be 30C and sunny so the sun cream was much in evidence, the wind was light in the morning picking up during the afternoon.  Most people headed to the lefthand side of the reservoir on leaving the dock and those that did try the [...]

August 30th, 2015|

25th July 2015: The Secretary’s Tray (Heaviest fish)

This competition was held at Ravensthorpe and was a boat contest with a keep two fish and then catch and release ticket, the winner weighing in the heaviest fish. Six anglers took part.

The weather was quite pleasant, throughout the morning the wind was fairly strong, all boats spent the whole day drifting across the reservoir, taking the odd fish from anywhere. The majority of the fish caught were probably taken from the approach to the boils and dam wall end. Most used the tactic of keeping the flies high [...]

July 29th, 2015|

Club Member Triumphs at Pitsford – Well done Bob!

Fished the Charity Match at Pitsford yesterday and much to my surprise, I came first, second was my boat partner Ian Mitchell.

The fishing was very very hard and of the 15 boats only a total of around 40lbs was caught. I had 11.25lbs for 5 fish and Ian had 10.5lbs for 6 fish.

Amongst those fishing were Bob Church and other well-known faces.

Greyboy buzzers, black & yellow partridge spiders and magnet flies were the winning patterns – all size 14.

Fame at last !!!

Bob Sharp

June 1st, 2015|

The Ray Bull Trophy (Heaviest bag)

This relaxed, friendly competition and BBQ was held this year on Farmoor II, a boat contest with and an eight fish limit. Ten anglers in five boats were taking part. The day started quite cloudy and extremely windy, the far side of the reservoir offering some shelter so naturally everyone headed that way, anchoring or tying to a buoy being the order of the day. Fishing deep, static, big black buzzers was recommended and some caught on this method, in my boat we chucked everything and anything out without success. In the afternoon most [...]

May 16th, 2015|

Keith and Geoff at Farmoor

Friday 13th March! Strong North-east wind made it almost impossible to drift. Tried to find shelter at the north end in the lea of the dam. No fish moving and very hard fishing. Last hour or so down near the yacht club close to the bank and Keith managed to get two. One a nice four pounds. Only 3 boats out. Word was a lone guy on one of then had 12!! John Reid had a similar experience to us on the Saturday even the Adams wouldn’t work for [...]

March 13th, 2015|

Bronze Award

Below are the flies that have to be tied for the Bronze Award.

Below is the link to the Fly Dressers’ Guild where further information can be found and the details for tying the flies.

http://www.flydressersguild.org/Pages/MembersArea.aspx

Flies tied by Dave Dalby

November 26th, 2014|

John Budsworth and Keith Allison at Grafham

Grafham Fishing 25th Oct 2014 John Budsworth and Keith Allison

John Budsworth and I arrived at the above venue having received some good detective work from John Gamon. It consisted of using a mix of flies being Diawl Bach, GRHE , Minkie, Cormorants and fishing a floating line and to make for the north shore and work our way down the dam.

We did just that , the weather was perfect , blue sky , approx 13 degrees , good ripple and on mooring up we saw fish moving and to [...]

November 1st, 2014|