Today was the Midland Heat of the Anglian Water/Airflo International and GWFFA had 2 teams in again this year. The weather was yet again windy and sunny, just about the worst weather possible but we had practiced well and had a plan.
I was drawn with Stewart Thomson from Pitsford Pirates who had also practiced and we agreed to head for Sanctuary Bay. I set up a Slow Glass line with a buzzer on top dropper, Hares Ear in the middle and a Cormorant on the point.
After a couple of drifts I was into a fish that had taken the cormorant. Was a bit tricky to land with nearly 20ft of leader but I did manage to get in the net eventually. By 12.00pm I had 2 in the boat and Stewart was yet to have a pull. We moved to Hedge End where I switched to a Di3 and single booby and lost a fish on the first cast. No more action here so we headed back to Sanctuary Bay. Back on the Slow Glass and I had 2 more one on the buzzer which was a good sized fish nearly 4lb and one on the Hares Ear Cruncher. Stewart now switched to a slow glass line and soon had 3 fish in the boat. A few missed pulls and he had caught me up, 4 each.
I eventually caught another and finished the day on 5.
At the weigh in my biggest fish was 3lb 15 7/8oz and was the biggest fish of the day out of 60 anglers.
Having the biggest fish has qualified me for next years Airflo International Individual Final so really pleased with that.
Overall Team results are
1st Team Frog Hair
2nd England Youth Anglia
3rd Pitsford Pirates
4th Soldier Palmers
5th Team Rio-Draycote Flyers
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6th Invicta FFC
7th GWFFA 2 (my team)
8th Greylags
9th GWFFA 1
10th Troutfishers.
The top 5 made the Midlands Final so unfortunatly our two club teams will have to wait till next year.
1 comment:
Will someone please turn off the wind
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