Fishing
Three wins in a row for Richard at Rutland
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mpingham’s Richard Cooper won the Tuesday Night Boat League for three consecutive weeks in June. With the season takes at 22,324, returns at 4,255, Rutland Water is maintaining an excellent rod average with 4.29 per week. The best fish recently went to Adrian Gorman, on holiday from Galway in the Republic of Ireland. Adrian took a superb Rainbow that turned the scales around to 6lb 2oz. Anglers catching 5lb fish included Bob Church, and although a storm cut Bob’s boat trip short, he netted a 5lb 6oz specimen from the Sailing Club. Others with similar sized fish were season ticket holders Jim Watts, from Ryhall, Oakham’s Geoff Wanless and Empingham’s Rich Cooper. Both Geoff and Rich took their fish during the Tuesday Night Boat League meeting. Many areas of the reservoir are producing fish, with the bottom of the arms slowly waking up after weeks of steady easterly winds keeping things quiet.
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Various methods are working from floating lines with nymphs/buzzers and dry fly through to various sinking lines and lures for those who like pulling flies. A high percentage of fish are being recorded between 3 and 5lb. Buzzer hatches are still occurring with fish feeding well on these along with snails, shrimp, daphnia and corixa. One or two olives are starting to show, and with sedge and this year’s pin fry not far away, there is no shortage of food available. Earlier in the month, the best fish at Rutland Water was a fine 7lb 12 5/8oz Rainbow taken by Alex Urquhart of Hinckley. He caught this fine specimen whilst boat fishing near the Sailing Club on a black buzzer. Lots of heavy bags have been recorded. Two notable bags came from Jim Gamble and his son Tom from Willoughby Waterleys, Leicestershire. They landed eight fish between them on the day for 28lb 8oz, including a 5lb 15oz Rainbow.
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The other notable bag was from M French of Stanley, County Durham, who managed eight fish for 29lb including a 6lb Rainbow during his outing. In the Anglian Water Floating Line match on Saturday, June 8, several eight fish limits were recorded in what were overcast conditions. Julian Hubbard took the biggest fish prize of the day with a fish weighing 3lb 14oz. First was John Tattersfield and Mark Harrison with 16 fish for 36lb 7oz In the Rutland Water Fly Fishers Cutting Trophy on Friday, June 7, fished on a fine, clear evening with a chilly north easterly wind, Dave Porter ran out an easy winner of the competition with his catch taken on dry hoppers. Dave pipped Rob Teasdale by one ounce to take the prize for the best fish. Dave’s fish had been feeding mainly on pink shrimp. This was quite a good result considering the conditions. John Wadham said: “We all had a lot of fun casting to many apparently ‘impossible’ rising fish.”
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