2012 Loch-style National, Bewl Water

Posted on September 21, 2012 by teffpressofficer

The top 28 qualifiers are:

1. Steve Cullen             8 fish    17lbs 61/2ozs
2. Tony Fox                  8 fish    16lbs 9ozs
3. Harry Fox                7 fish    14lbs 31/2ozs
4. John Tyzack             6 fish    12lbs 81/2ozs
5. John Hardy              6 fish    12lbs 2ozs
6. Paul Canning           5 fish    11lbs 12ozs 
7. Tom Bird                  6 fish    11lbs 81/2ozs
8. Martin Griffiths      6 fish    11lbs 8ozs
9. John Ball                  6 fish    11lbs 71/2ozs
10. Gary Hedges          5 fish    10lbs 1ozs
11. Martin Burgess      4 fish    9lbs 15ozs
12. Andrew Croucher  5 fish    9lbs 9ozs
13. Howard Croston    5 fish    9lbs 7ozs
14. Mark MacLeod      5 fish    9lbs 41/2ozs 
15. Paul Davison          4 fish    8lbs 9ozs
16. Paul Lee                  4 fish    8lbs 8ozs
17. John Hood              5 fish    8bs 51/2ozs
18. Richard Slater       3 fish    8lbs 51/2ozs
19. Paul Kitchen          5 fish    8lbs 3ozs
20. Thomas Davis       4 fish    8lbs 21/2ozs
21. Steve Smalley        5 fish    8lbs 1ozs
22. Roger Truscott     4 fish    7lbs 14ozs
23. Simon Kidd           4 fish    7lbs 7ozs
24. Denis Symonds     3 fish    7lbs 5ozs
25. Paul Angel             3 fish    7lbs 4ozs
26. Glen Appleby        4 fish    7lbs 2ozs
27. John Horsey          3 fish    7lbs 01/2ozs
28. Rob Barden           3 fish    6lbs 15ozs

(Results & images courtesy of Cliff Waters, Fishypics)

Full results: England National 2012(3)

These will represent Team England FF at the Home Loch-style Internationals for 2013, which will be the Spring International at Bewl Water, and the Autumn International at the Lake of Menteith in Scotland. 

Martin Introna, Team England FF Boat Manager, adds, “Many congratulations to everyone who qualified for next year’s teams. It was a very difficult and frustrating day for many anglers who just couldn’t get that single take/fish that may have seen them in the top 28 places. Bewl is a wonderful water but can be rather ‘moody’…If I can for the moment single out one particular angler, Steve Cullen, this man is on fire claiming the top English bag at the recent Autumn International held at Llyn Brenig and now National Champion. To all the other qualifiers, I look forward to working with you next year, we have a very strong squad.”

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2012 Greys TEFF Bank Championships

Posted on September 7, 2012 by teffpressofficer

A list of Individual and Team National qualifiers will be published shortly.

2012 Individual Qualifier Invitation 2012 ind invite

2012 Team Qualifier Invitation 2012 team invite

Greys Bank Rules Greys 2012 bank rules

Individual Final Qualifiers: the following have qualified for the Greys Individual Final at Westlow Mere on Saturday 6th October: Greys Individual Final qualifiers

Entry forms have been posted or emailed, so if you are on this list and have not yet received a form they are available above. Those marked with a (C) are already confirmed for the Finals. The closing date is the 22nd September so please get your forms and entry fee back by then.

Team Final Qualifiers: the qualifying teams for the Team Final on Sunday 7th October are: Greys Team Final qualifiers

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2012 Autumn Loch Style Home International, Llyn Brenig

Posted on September 6, 2012 by teffpressofficer

The following represented Team England FF at Llyn Brenig in the Autumn Loch Style Home International on Friday 7th September:

Martin Introna (manager), Rob Sosbe (captain), Peter Appleby, Fred Bainbridge, Alistair Beaumont, Andrew Croucher, Steve Cullen, Nick Dunn, Ron Gent, Brad Gifford, Christopher Micallef, David Morris, Lloyd Pallett, Paul Shaw and Richard Slater.

Results:

1. Scotland    52 fish    72lbs 3ozs

2. England    38 fish    52lbs 2ozs

3. Ireland    32 fish    45lbs 10ozs

4. Wales    17 fish    23lbs 9ozs

Brown Bowl: John Buchanan (Scotland) 9 fish 12lbs 7.25ozs

Full Results: iffa2012autumn

England team boat manager Martin Introna commented, “Just a huge thanks to all involved at the Autumn International, especially Wynnora Thomas who worked tirelessly organising this event. I wish to thank my team for winning silver on my second international as manager and being the only team not to record a blank. Rest assured we shall be stronger next year you have my word on that!”

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Loch Style Qualifiers Survey

Posted on July 31, 2012 by clivecollier

John Mees our Loch Style National Manager has created a survey to get responsible feedback from our English competition fly anglers in response to concerns and questions raised about the regional qualifiers.

TEFF is committed to improve our performance and to show we will respond to the concerns of our angling community, this survey is to help us understand whether our proposal does meet the wider concerns.

This is your chance to have your say!

Please respond.

Click here to read the survey

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Southern FF 2013 Rivers Qualifier 1, Lower Itchen

Posted on July 28, 2012 by teffpressofficer

The Southern Fly Fishers will be holding their first Rivers Qualifier (for the 2013 National) at the Lower Itchen fishery on Saturday 13th October.

Entry Fee £40 (closing date for entry 1st October) Cheques payable to ‘SFF’. Organiser: Simon Lucas, 48 Pembury Close, Larkhill, Southampton, SO16 8HE  Tel: 02380 394225  Email: slucas7676@googlemail.com

Entry Form ENTRY FORMItchen

 

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2012 England Bank Team

Posted on July 22, 2012 by teffpressofficer

The Team England FF Bank Team for 2012 will be:

Alan Jenkins (Manager); Simon Robinson (Captain) from Whickham, Tyne & Wear; Dean Appleby, Peterlee, Co Durham; Terry Phillips, Bursclough, Lancashire; Jim Tuck, Ashington, Northumberland; Phil Dixon, Seighford, Staffordshire; Mark Harrison, Walsall, West Midlands; and Andy Taylor (Reserve), Stafford, Staffordshire.

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World Youth Championships

Posted on July 17, 2012 by teffpressofficer

8th-14th July, Lozere, France 

James Atkinson, Oliver Avis, Oscar Boatfield, Carl Malpass and Fen Oakley represented Team England FF in the recent World Youth Championships in Lozere, France.

Championship Website

Apparently this was an extremely tough competition, fishing for pressurised wild fish. The final results were: 1st Czech Republic 2nd USA 3rd France, with Ireland 5th and England 8th. Individually, Martin Musil (Czech) was World Youth Champion, 2nd Lukas Starychfojtu and 3rd Austen Randecker (USA).

Full Results by Session

Session-1-Team-Results Session-1-Individual-Results

Session-2-Cumulative-Team-Results Session-2-Cumulative-Individual-Results

Session-3-Cumulative-Team-Results Session-3-Cumulative-Individual-Results

Session-4-Cumulative-Team-Results Session-4-Cumulative-Individual-Results

Session-5-Final-Team-Results Session-5-Final-Individual-Results

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2012 Rivers National

Posted on July 17, 2012 by teffpressofficer

River Dart, 15th July 2012

The Rivers National took place on the upper beats of the East and West Dart (courtesy of the Duchy of Cornwall and the West Country Rivers Trust). Heavy rain and unseasonally low temperatures made practice sessions testing, but on the day the sun shone and the fishing excelled, with a total of 540 measurable fish caught.

The winner, Andy Croucher (Southern Fly Fishers) won each of the four sessions, scoring an unbeatable 4 points. In 2nd and 3rd places were Lewis Hendrie and Alex Bobba (Peninsula Federation), 4th was Andrew Scott (Northern Federation) and 5th Paul Lee (Southern Fly Fishers). The top five go on to represent England in next year’s Home Rivers International against Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Full report 2012 National Rivers Final

Results 2012 Rivers National results sheet

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CLA Game Fair and Funding

Posted on July 16, 2012 by clivecollier

I am sure that you are all aware that TEFF continues to raise significant funds by attending various shows where we sell new and secondhand tackle, fly tying materials, clothing, etc.  John Ball is the mastermind and driving force behind these funding activities aided by Simon Lucas and Malcolm Price; other volunteers help man the stands at the shows, me included.

There is a huge amount of work done by John in advance of these shows packaging & pricing all of the goods in such a way they can be displayed in a professional manner; without this work by John and his team we would have significantly less funding to help defray the costs for the TEFF teams and personal contributions would rise significantly.

Whilst discussing funding I think it is appropriate that I point out that the officials of TEFF are all volunteers and give their time freely and also do not claim any expenses and hence, whilst fulfilling their duties, they are always out of pocket. All funds raised go to help fund Team England Fly Fishing in International Fly Fishing Competitions.

This is the BRFI show hosted at Stafford in June this year.

The 2012 CLA Game Fair has been cancelled because of a water logged site. This is a big blow to us as this is one of our major fund raisers and as such will reduce the available funds for next year’s competitions.  We are looking into other ways to raise funds; one suggestion is to list some of our stock on this website so that people who are interested can contact us to purchase the items.

If anybody has any ideas on fund raising or has unwanted tackle, fly tying tools/materials, fishing clothing, etc. please contact me or John.

Me : crc@qsiuk.com   John : j.ball50@btinternet.com

Clive Collier

Chairman TEFF

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Bewl Water Goes Any Method Trout Fishing

Posted on July 13, 2012 by clivecollier

Bewl Water has announced that they have introduced any method trout fishing, this is due to falling revenues which have made the fishery non profitable and hence the need to generate more income.

Though this is regrettable, it is a fact that many businesses are struggling in these difficult times, I personally applaud them for taking action to save the fishery from closing.

I have received a number of phone calls complaining about this course of action and questioning whether the Loch Style National and the Spring International should be held at Bewl.  It is a known fact that without competitions most of our reservoirs would find it difficult to make ends meet, so for TEFF to withdraw would be counter productive and would cause the fishery further problems, so TEFF will continue to support Bewl Water in whatever way we can so that the fishing is preserved.

I would also like to point out that in the past I have fished an International on Trawsfynydd in Wales which is an any method trout fishery and noticed no difference to the fly fishing.  Also I have spoken to some of the Hanningfield guys who say it makes no difference to them that it is an any method fishery.

What I would like is that our fly fishing community support Bewl by making a bit of effort to go fishing there, it is a stunningly beautiful fishery full of hard fighting blues, normal rainbows and brown trout.

So please help.

 

 

 

Clive Collier

Chairman TEFF

Click to read the full announcement.

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