Sorry for the delay, I have been so busy with school work I just haven't had chance to upload anything. But better late than never!
On the 3rd of October we set off to practice for the match. With no help from the traffic we got fishing at 10am. But never the less we set of in good spirit. But it soon became apparent that the fishing was HARD. 70% of the fleet was fishing along the dam and the rest spread out over both arms. In practice we didn't catch many fish but we knew what to do and where to go. So back to the hotel we went to tie flies and prepare for our biggest fishing day so far.
On match day we had the team photos, not my best picture ever. The game plan was to fish either across the dam on Di3 sweeps with Cat Boobys and Cormerants or to fish at Armly wood or New Zealand point with slow glass lines and black nymphs. This plan worked very well as after day 1 we were in second place! Not bad for a youth team in a senior final.We had 25 fish which was 5 better than the Welsh Hawks in third.
Day 2 Saw horrendous winds forecast up to 40mph. This looked untrue at the start but was soon confirmed after 5 foot waves started battering the boats. Again we kept to the plan and sent boats to the dam and New Zealand. Unfortunately we had a bit of a bad day with the waves becoming to much for all the boats at the dam as we got forced up the arms by the Wardens, after 1 boat had to beach them self's on the dam. We stuck at it but the fish just didn't come. We only had 10 fish on day 2 which put us back into 5th place.
This was a bit disappointing but looking at the bigger picture it was an amazing result considering our average age in the team is only 17. It had to be one of the best few days of my life to date , to have taken part in the very prestigious event was a privilege and I hope we have an equally good year next year.
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