Airflo Northern final

Yesterday was the Northern final of the Anglian water Airflo international at Rutland water. We travelled down on Sunday the 10th for a practice to see where the fish were holding and what methods were  working best. This proved to be invaluable as the fishing was extremely tough. Unfortunately we didn't find any particular areas that were holding fish but we did find fish and I also found that Woofta's and sunburst blobs were the top flies.

On match day it was very similar to practice with fish hard to come by, this was probably due to no cloud and near flat calm conditions. So i decided to fish a DI7 40+ line with Tequila blob and Wootfa booby. Unfortunately I didn't get my first fish till 2.30 out of Manton bay. So we decided to move to old hall. This proved to be the best move of the day as within 2 drifts I had caught my limit with 8 fish by 4.30. This turned out to be 1 of only 2 limits caught all day and claimed 3rd overall for me because I was narrowly beaten by Peter Appelby with 5 big fish to my 8 smaller fish. But it did mean that the team qualified for the international Final in October. So it was an extremely good day.