Airflo International Stocks Reservoir

Yesterday was the first heat of the Airflo international at Stocks reservoir. I was part of the England youth north team, and after a solid performance last year we were under pressure to be the first youth team to qualify 2 years in a row.

We arrived on the day to bright sky's and light winds, so I set up with a washing line set up on a midge tip. I had a 4 fly leader which consisted of a hopper on the top dropper, 2 cormorants and a cat booby on the point. This tactic proved to be the right one with me catching fish on my second cast! This was quickly followed by 3 more.

Unfortunately the wind then Picked up which switched the fishing off completely. In the big waves it was impossible to control the flies to I changed to a DI3 sweep line with a cat booby, tequila blob, and 2 cormorants. I took 3 more fish on this set up. This gave me 6 fish which was top in my team and 4th overall. This means I have being invited to the Individual final next year for the second time in a row.

All of our team caught fish so we qualified for the northan final at Rutland water. So overall it was a great day and there were some huge fish caught including a 11lb blue trout!

Airflo international final

Hi Guys

Sorry I havent updated recently I have just been so busy. But anyway here is a report of my experiences.

We set of on Friday the 20th in high hopes for the day ahead even though it was 4 in the morning. We arrived at Grafham water to find a gentle ripple and plenty of cloud cover. I was down to fish with Rob Edmund s on practice so we got of to a good start in Valley Creek where I caught a fish on a small buzzer booby before Rob had even set up. It wasn't long before it was 3-0 to me but then Rob started to get fish pulling. we fished all the way round the lake and established the fish holding areas so we left to prepare for the next day.

The conditions on match day were good so I decided to pull early on and them fish buzzers in savages. I was partnered with Graham Watson former England coach and we agreed that Valley Creek was to be our first call. I got two pulling early but it went quite so we moved to sailing club, there was lots of fish being caught here but they were small so we went to savages. We fished buzzers in here all day to have a great day.

The final result was not as I hoped but I was into the top 20 so for a junior in a senior match that was quite good. I had a thoroughly enjoyable day. I would like to say thank you to the Anglian Water staff and to Rob for a great day of practice and Graham for a good competition day.