Here are the results:

1 Airflo Team Cormorants 34 fish 76lb -4oz
2.Rio Draycote Flyers 32 fish 75lb -7.5oz
3. Grafham Water FFA 29 fish 67lb -5oz
4.Hanningfield 30 fish 63lb -9oz
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5.Rio Masters 26 fish 61lb -15.5oz
6. Greenwell PersuadersA 25fish 54lb-11oz
7.Loop UK 25 fish 51lb -11oz
8.Orvis Team Rutland 22 fish 48lb -11oz
9 Toft Trout 24 fish 45lb -3oz
10.Soldier Palmers 17 fish 43lb -13.5oz
11. Invicta FFC 16 fish 30lb -12oz
12.Pitford Pirates 11 fish 20lb - 0.5oz



Top Bag 25-2 Andy Croucher & Best Fish 4lb-15.5oz


Well done to Al and the team a superb team performance, I'm sure that you will get a few more next time. You did beat Podgy though !!

Well done to Al Owen and the Cormorants, Dave Hoppe and the Flyers, GWFFA and Hanningfield.

Grafham was like fish soup, just didn't come for the Pirates this time though.

The Pirate.

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Yup, the Jolly Roger was holed well below the water line today

Well done to the lads that qualified, especially the boys from Hanningfield.

Dave Hoppe and I would especially like to thank his team mate Craig who told us it wasn't worth going round the corner into Savages after about an hour of the match...................what numpties

Charlie

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Some strong teams there Paul....Well done to the Cormorants and the other teams... Was Savages still producing? Methods?

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Cheers Charlie thanks for that!!!!! Me and Richard were only acting on early info,do you think we would have been sitting where we were if we had known what was going on around the corner.
What happend to you boys anyway 11 fish in fish soup! didn't you boys tie any flies on the end
Cheers CRAIG smith rio draycote numpties i mean flyers.
As for the Captain Hoppe he will be getting the sack

I'm not sure having flies on the cast would have made much difference for us yesterday We'll be back though, bring on the Lexus final.

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Yep although I only managed 3 myself I can confirm that I observed lots of fishing being caught in the Savages and Sanctuary bay area.

Most people seem to be Nymphing on a Midge tip or floater. My Cast was a midge tip with a straight line mixture of Diawl Bach's and Crunchers.

After 2 days practice, the only place to be was Savages/Sanctuary Bay area. Nymphing on the midge was the answer for us on Sat/Sun but on the Match, conditions were perfect and there were fish showing all over that area. I saw fish caught on all methods, even 'blobs'. Rob Edmonds was getting them on tiny dries. Me and John Mees spent most of the day watching others catch, we got the odd pull, the odd fish that came to the net then fell off and that was about it. Thankfully, the rest of the team had a good day. There are still pleanty of good fish in Grafham - what a place. Well done to those that caught, commisserations to those like me who struggled, it was a weird day.

Well done Al.... Rob catching on 'tiny' dries? you are having a laugh... he must have come a long way from the RK's....

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