Not a great day is about the best way to summarise todays Hinckley Shield at Rutland Water.
I was part of a six man team that also included Peter Waterhouse (Captain), Steve Ellerbeck, Chris Lane, Nick Preston and Neil ?
Peter and I headed for New Zealand Point while the others headed for Normanton and The Pipes near the dam.
The competition started at 9.30 so tackled up and ready to go we hit the water bang on time. 45 mins later and i had a nice fish on that had taken a Claret Hopper on the dropper. On the point was Bugler. A few minutes later and it was in the bag.
Peter changed flies with a Bugler on point and soon had a fish follow but it turned away. Things were looking good.
Sadly, nothing else happened. After hearing from Nick and Steve that they were not catching and eventually Nick and Neil joined us. We decided to stick it out till 2.30 when we finally moved to Barnwell Creek on the Peninsula. People there were catching fish but we didn't get a thing.
At 4.45 we packed up and took the 30 min drive back to the lodge in time to weigh in.
My single fish weighed 2lb 9oz. Chris Lane had a brace or about 3lb 6oz or so. Everyone else on out team had blanked.
We finished 6th out of 6 teams so not a good result for the GWFFA Hill Farmers as we were known. GWFFA G Bouys did better and finished 2nd overall. EMFFA won the day so well done them and next years competition will be at Draycote.
All in all a good days fishing just a shame we didn't bag up.
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