Amos secures victory in club's penultimate match - Burton Mail

FOREMARK Fly-Fishers travelled to the prolific Draycote Reservoir for the penultimate match of the season.

Even though the match was fished in considerable wind and rain, those who competed found fish averaging 2lb 15oz — topped off by a superb specimen of 4lb 4oz that was caught by Mike Lawley.

The match was split into two as several members fished as a team against four other teams.

As a club, though, Merv Amos won the match by a mile as he boated seven fish for a weight of 20lb 14oz.

He took a brace on crunchers and the rest on orange blobs fished on a mid-glass line. He chose to retrieve either very slowly or very quickly, but kept his flies within the top two feet of water.

The runner-up was his boat partner Malc Sargent. He weighed in four fish for 14lb 10oz — most of them taken on lime green blobs.

This is despite being bombarded by his partner as his flies constantly flew off course in the variable wind.

Third was Lawley with four fish for 10lb 12oz, including the best fish of the day.

Team-wise, Foremark came second again. They were beaten by a single fish, with just 1lb 9oz separating them from the winners, who were once again Colwich Fly-Fishers.

They weighed in 65lb 12oz to Foremark’s 64lb 3oz.

At Foremark Reservoir, the fishing this week has improved again.

Throughout the week, the fish have once again been very mobile, moving up and down the water column.

With a predominantly west wind, the fish are moving along the Ticknall bank from the gorse bushes up to the car park area.

The boils have also been on this week and there have been fish holding in large numbers there.

For some reason, the fish have been hitting flies hard all week.

The water clarity still remains good and the water level is continuing to drop slowly, allowing a little more room for the bank anglers.

The best tactics have been white and green lures (cats whiskers), boobies and orange blob patterns fished on sinking and intermediate lines.

Muddlers and hoppers have been taking fish on a floating line during the times when the trout are in the top layers.

Again, the banks have remained a challenge, but one or two rods have found some good sport off hut point.

The rod average has hit 3.4 fish per rod this week.

Thornton Reservoir has also fished slightly better, with a rod average of two fish per rod.

The best patterns have been damsels, buzzers, daddylong- legs and crunchers. Several fish have also been caught on small hot-spot nymphs.

The fish are also starting to react to minkies and other fry patterns and, as we get into October, you can expect increasing numbers of fish to be taken on them.

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THE DAILY CATCH http://fishingnews.posterous.com/amos-secures-victory-in-clubs-penultimate-mat FOREMARK Fly-Fishers travelled to the prolific Draycote Reservoir for the penultimate match of the season. Even though the match was fished in considerable wind and rain, those who competed found fish averaging 2lb 15oz — topped off by a superb specimen of 4lb 4oz that was caught by Mike Lawley. The ...