Angling Trust Team England Fly Fishing

(by federation)

Northern

Two separate qualifiers

Sunday 17th February 2013 – R. Dee, Maelor/Llangollen – more information here: 2013 Northern Federation Qualifiers & forms

Seven people fished this qualifier and everyone caught fish.

Results: Morning Winner – Tom Speak; Afternoon Winner – Terry Phillips; 1st Reserve/3rd Place – Andrew Scott; 2nd Reserve/4th Place – Andrew G Taylor

Full Results: 2013 River Dee Qualifier Results

Sunday 19th May 2013 – R. Ure, Wensley – more information here: 2013 Northern Federation Qualifiers & forms

14 fished – Overall Results: 1st Fred Bainbridge, 2nd Simon Robinson, 3rd Robbie Bell, 4th Dave Hudson, 5th Keith McAdam, 6th Pete Scholes

Full Results: 2013 River URE River Qualifier results

Peninsular

Saturday 25th May – River Teign, Fingle Bridge – membership and entry forms from Paul Jesney jesney@hotmail.co.uk

Severn Trent

Saturday-Sunday 26th-27th January 2013 – R. Dee, Maelor/Llangollen (Severn Trent Rivers Championship) – more information here

Results (top six) 1st Phil Dixon 9 fish 400 fish pts 3 place pts, 2nd Martin Dixon 3 fish 158 fish pts 4 place pts, 3rd Mark Harrison 3 fish 151 fish pts 4 place pts; 4th Ron Ayers 2 fish 88 fish pts 7 place pts, 5th Adrian Carless 2 fish 85 fish pts 10 place pts, 6th Graham Kennerley 4 fish 216 fish pts 11 place pts

Southern Fly Fishers

(two separate qualifiers)

Saturday 13th October 2012, Lower Itchen fishery – CANCELLED

Saturday 16th February 2013, R. Test, Wherwell – more information here

Results: Morning – 1st Robert Brown 2nd Andy Croucher; Afternoon – 1st Graham Lumsden 2nd Ben Bangham. 

Full Results: wherwell qual results 2013

South East FFF

Qualifier: Sunday 4th November 2012, Lower Itchen fishery

(Official Practice: Saturday 3rd November)

More information here

Spring Team

Saturday 23rd March, Bewl Water

Autumn Team

Saturday 6th July, Draycote Water

All squad members shall meet at 9.00am. Martin Introna, Boat Manager

Spring Loch-style team, Bewl Water 17th May

Richard Slater (Capt), John Ball, Robert Barden, Paul Canning, Steve Cullen, Anthony Fox, Harry Fox, John Hardy, John Horsey, Simon Kidd, Paul Lee, Denis Symonds, Roger Truscott, John Tyzack, Reserve – Steve Ottridge

Autumn Loch-style team, Lake of Menteith 20th September

Paul Angell (Capt), Glenn Appleby, Tom Bird, Martin Burgess, Howard Croston, Andy Croucher, Tom Davies, Paul Davison, Martin Griffiths, Gary Hedges, John Hood, Paul Kitchen, Mark Macleod, Steve Smalley, Reserve – Andrew Taylor

Martin Introna TEFF Boat Manager

This will held at either Blithfield or Draycote on 16th June 2013.

For more information contact Ian Colclough on ian.colclough@googlemail.com

The Northern Federation has published its outline programme for their 2013 Qualifiers.

River Qualifiers are being held on the River Dee in February, and the River Ure in May.

Loch-style Qualifiers are being held on Stocks in April and June, along with Kielder in May.

More Information, Rules & Entry Forms 2013 Northern Federation Qualifiers & forms

Further details can be found on the Northern Federation’s web-page here

4th November, Lower Itchen

Baz Reece won the recent South East Fly Fishers Federation Rivers Qualifier, scoring five fish in the morning session, which included a 41cms grayling, the largest of the match. This was just six points ahead of Tony Fox, who also scored five fish.

The afternoon session saw an already coloured river deteriorate further, with just three fish scored. The top six were: 1. Baz Reece 2. Gavin Walsh 3. Tony Fox 4. David Drake 5. Lindsay Simpson 6. Bill Rankin

Full results & report 2012 SEFFF Rivers Qualifier

(Images courtesy of Lindsay Simpson, who also has a report here)

The TEFFIC committee has been working for some time to establish a performance based system that would assess an individuals suitability to enter into a selection process for the European and World teams.

This will have the benefit, that any competitor will be able to understand what points they need to achieve across all doctrines of fly fishing to gain entry to the selection process.

It is intended that final selection of the teams will be established by trials which will start next year in the spring.  We will be in a position to provide more details on the trials once we have secured permission to hold these at appropriate venues.

This is not a new concept, we have researched how the pre-eminent countries such as Czech Republic, France, Italy, and Poland select their teams, they all use performance based selection, there are regional differences but the concept is basically the same.

It is important that we strive to get better as an organisation, this is an example by bringing transparency to the selection process we will encourage more fly fishermen to aspire to fish at European and World levels and they in turn will push themselves to get the qualifications that they need.

We are not naive enough to think we will get this right first time so we expect this whole process to evolve over a period of time, with this in mind we would appreciate any comments and suggestions from the competitor community on the performance eligibility document.

Click here to read the document

Please email your comments and suggestions to crc@qsiuk.com

Clive Collier

River Dee – 26th & 27th January 2013

Entry Form: ENTRY FORM

Organiser: Michael Mason, Oaklea, 4 Patshull Road, Albrighton, Wolverhampton WV7 3BH

England convincingly won the Bank International at Garnffrwd fishery in South Wales by a record margin with a tremendously consistent team performance over two sessions. The team consisted of Simon Robinson as captain with team members Terry Phillips, Dean Appleby, Phil Dixon, Jim Tuck and Mark Harrison, with Andy Taylor as reserve and Alan Jenkins as team manager.

Full report: Bank International 2012

Full results: 2012 Bank International Results

Teams

1st England   total placings – 88 (76 fish)

2nd Scotland   total placings – 158 (51 fish)

3rd Wales   total placings – 163 (50 fish)

4th Ireland   total placings – 194 (41 fish)

Individuals

1st Terry Phillips (England) – total placings – 3 (19 fish)

2nd Dean Appleby (England) – total placings – 3 (17 fish)

3rd Stephen Corsar (Scotland) – total placings – 9 (13 fish)

4th Brian Kerr (Ireland) – total placings – 10 (14 fish)

5th Matthew Jones (Wales) – total placings – 12 (13 fish)

6th Simon Robinson (England) – total placings – 12 (12 fish)

7th Phil Dixon (England) – total placings – 14 (12 fish)

8th Jim Tuck (England) – total placings – 14 (11 fish)

National Final, 6th October – Individual

Champion – Gordon Swain (7 session pts) (13 fish) 20 pts

2. Glen Appleby (5 session pts) (11 fish) 16 pts

3. Howard Croston (5 session pts) (10 fish) 15 pts

4. Rob Frame (6 session pts) (9 fish) 15 pts

5. Phil Dixon (5 session pts) (9 fish) 14 pts

6. Andy Taylor (4 session pts) (8 fish) 12 pts

7. Tim Gilchrist (4 session pts) (8 fish) 12 pts

The top six will form the Team England FF Bank team for the 2013 Bank Home International in Scotland, plus one reserve.

Full Results: greys2012individual

Sky TV Tight Lines coverage:

http://www.skysports.com/video/inline/0,26691,12976_8297369,00.html

National Final, 7th October – Team

Team Champions – Chatton Chasers  (13 session pts) (36 fish) 49 pts

Jim Tuck (1 fish) Gordon Swain (20 fish) Rob Frame (15 fish) 

2. Stonebridge Triple AAA (16 session pts) (28 fish) 44 pts

Peter Appleby (9 fish) Glen Appleby (14 fish) Dean Appleby (5 fish)

3. G Loomis (13 session pts) (18 fish) 31 pts

Simon Robinson (5 fish) Andrew Scott (9 fish) Davey Parker (4 fish)

4. Team Hardy Greys (10 session pts) (14 fish) 24 pts

Howard Croston (2 fish) Phil Dixon (7 fish) Fred Bainbridge (5 fish)

Full Results (teams): greys2012team

Full Results (individuals): greys2012teaminds