Angling Trust Team England Fly Fishing

Entry forms for Southern Fly Fishers events this year – including loch-style qualifiers, spring match, pond fishing and the SFF Championships – are on the Southern FF web-page, together with a membership form.

(by federation)

Army

Usually fished at Rutland over two consecutive days. The actual dates cannot be published for security reasons. Please contact the secretary Si Elson for more details.

East Anglia

Fished over two days, points total from both days determines qualifiers.

(1) 6th May – Hanningfield

(2) 24th June – Hanningfield

Midlands

Fished over two days, points total from both days determines qualifiers.

(1) 27th May – Rutland Water

(2) 17th June – Grafham Water

Northern

Three separate qualifiers.

15th April – Stocks

20th May – Kielder Water

16th & 17th June (Fished over two days) – Stocks

Peninsula

29th April – Blagdon

RAF

Usually fished at Grafham over two consecutive days. The actual dates cannot be published for security reasons. Please contact the secretary Dave Newing for more details.

Severn Trent

10th June – Blithfield

South East

Fished over two days, points total from both days determines qualifiers.

(1) 27th May – Bewl Water

(2) 1st July – Bewl Water

Southern

Two separate qualifiers.

15th April – Bewl Water

20th May – Chew

South West

24th June – Chew

(by federation)

Midlands

28th-29th January – R. Dee, Maelor/Llangollen (Midlands Rivers Championship)

Northern

Two separate qualifiers

11th March – R. Dee, Maelor/Llangollen (Northern Rivers Championship)

3rd June – R. Swale, Reeth

Peninsular

Dates for the 2012 Rivers qualifier not yet available.

South East

(For 2013 Rivers National)

Usually held on R. Itchen in November – date tbc

Southern

(For 2013 Rivers National – two separate qualifiers)

The first usually held on R. Itchen in October – date tbc

The second usually held on R. Test in February – date tbc

The first heat of the Greys National Bank Championships took place at Innis Fishery near St Austell in Cornwall on Sunday, 12th February 2012.

Sunny conditions and cold weather greeted the twelve anglers that took part.  They came from as far afield as Tiverton in Devon and St Agnes in the West of Cornwall. No fresh stockies were put in prior to the match in order to make it a fairer competition, thus making the fishing challenging for all anglers.  However, two anglers caught their six fish limit and thirty three fish were caught throughout the six-hour competition.

First place went to Steve Wiggins of Holsworthy, second place went to Dave Johns from St Austell, and third place went to Alex Bobba from Tiverton.  A second heat is planned at Innis, however this is subject to the competition’s availability – date to be confirmed.

Tasmania 14th-19th February

Teams from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, Singapore, Kiribati (Christmas Island), Malta, Wales and India are contesting this event.

Fished in five three hour sessions over two and a half days, venues include Arthurs Lake, Woods Lake, Little Pine Lagoon, plus the Meander and South Esk Rivers.

Although not a Team England FF side, the England team contains some familiar faces in Dave Grove (captain), Bernie Maher, John Tyzack, Stuart Wardle and Andy Gooding, with manager Melvyn Parrott.

More details

Match Booklet

After winning the fifth session England finished in silver medal position, behind Australia Gold and ahead of Northern Ireland. Scotland Men were 6th, Wales were 10th and Scotland Ladies 14th. Individually, John Tyzack took the bronze, behind Campbell Baird (N Ire) who got the silver, and Christopher Bassano (AusG) with the gold. Dave Grove finished in 7th place, with James Litster (ScoM) 9th.

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Final team results

IND AFTER SESS 5

Paul Page (captain/manager), John Horsey, Phil Dixon, Simon Robinson, Howard Croston, John Tyzack and Scott Nellins (reserve) will represent Team England FF in the 2012 World Championships in Slovenia 2012 world team profiles

Wherwell Qualifier, Saturday 4^th February 2012.

Under new management, entrants to the SFF Wherwell qualifier arrived to find that the temperature reading was minus 10!! The River Keeper duly arrived to open up and found the gas regulators frozen for the cooker and heating gas frozen solid – Oh Joy.

Briefing completed, the anglers headed off briskly (not sure if this was enthusiasm or just a means to get warm!).

The morning session was traditionally slow – with the exception of Howard Croston, who led the way with 23 fish, including the biggest fish of the day at 46cm.

The afternoon was more prolific, Richard Wood in first place with 25 fish and two other anglers catching over twenty each.

Total fish landed for the morning session was 54, the afternoon being even more productive with 93 landed.

Results: Wherwell Results 4th Feb 2012

This event was held on the waters of the newly merged Llangollen Maelor Club on 28^th & 29^th January. Thanks are due to the club for their invaluable assistance.

On Saturday morning the Dee was up and coloured, but it fell and cleared nicely in dry frosty conditions. All of the competitors caught fish over the 2 days, and a total of 188 grayling were caught and returned.

Largest grayling was caught by Alan Carloss of Nantwich, a belting fish of 45cm. The winner was organiser Martin Dixon, and the likely qualifiers for the National Final on the Dart were;

Phil  Dixon                  20 fish             7 place points

Mike Dixon                 25 fish             9 place points

Graham Kennerley      12 fish             12 place points

Graham Willis             13 fish             14 place points

Glen Wright                10 fish             16 place points

Chris Ragin                 6 fish              20 place points

Ton Waslander       9 fish               21 place points Reserve

Loch-style

Stocks reservoir, Sunday 15th April (1 day event)

Stocks reservoir, Saturday-Sunday 16th-17th June (2 day event)

Kielder reservoir, Sunday 20th May (1 day event)

River

R. Dee, Maelor, Sunday 11th March (half day, as drawn)

R. Swale, Reeth, Sunday 3rd June (half day, as drawn)

More details, including Entry Forms & Rules on Northern Federation web page

Manager Martin Introna recently confirmed that Stena Line are sponsoring the Spring Home International loch-style team by offering reduced ferry rates. Martin added, “We appreciate Stena Line’s help and can fully endorse them as ferry operators”. The Spring Loch-style International will take place in May at Lough Sheelin, so the cost of travel and logistics to Ireland is a major consideration.