FOREMARK Fly Fishers restarted their competition program with an excellent day at their home water.
A rod average of 6.58 was the result of 19 anglers finding the fish in the upper layers and all of the competitors weighing in at the end of the day.
The aerators were just full of fish and all of the top placings went to anglers who put some time into that area.
The best rod of the day was that of Dixie Baxter, who netted 11 fish in all with his six fish weighing in at 14lbs 3ozs.
The new rules now mean that anglers take their first five fish and then chose the last fish to make up the six.
The ever improving Rick Saconne finished second on weight and on the numbers of fish caught, with 14 fish in all and his best six weighing in at 13lbs 2ozs.
Mark Redfern cut things a little closer as he caught just his six fish, but they pushed Saconne, weighing 12lbs 9ozs.
Fourth place was taken by angler of the day Neil Hassall, who boated 20 fish in all on blobs and Shipmans Buzzers but only managed fourth with 12lbs 6ozs.
The best fish weighed in was caught by Richard Miller at 3lbs 14ozs.
Overall, the fishery has produced an average of 5.1 for the week, with the lowering water levels doing no harm at all.
Even the banks and perked up considerably, just in time for the Graham Tagg Memorial match tomorrow, for which there is still plenty of room on the banks for pairs of anglers wishing to take part in the day that will celebrate the life of one of the most revered anglers in the area.
Dries have caught plenty of fish but so have diawl bachs and minkie boobies, so for those fishing this weekend it will be a case of trying things out on top first and then working down through the layers.
The COORS OPENS, now being fished on the River Trent, are starting to pull in some top class anglers, no doubt very pleased get away from the carp ponds and onto rivers that are fishing really well.
The match was fished on all of the club’s water through Burton and Crown Meadow at Shardlow, and all threw up double figures to win their sections.
A wide variety of methods and baits worked for the top anglers but several anglers caught well on the hemp and tares, deadly baits when the fish bite.
Dave Harrell won the event with 15lbs 8ozs of roach and perch. There were only six perch in his net but they weighed the best part of 5½ lbs.
The rest of his net was made up with roach and dace, all caught on waggler and maggot.
Runner-up Jeff Woodgett fished in a similar manner initially, taking dace and then switching to the hemp on the pole to take the majority of his 13lbs 4ozs weight that was made up with some good roach.
Third place went to Wayne Swinscoe who was pegged on the Andressey Meadow and caught 12lbs 15ozs of roach on waggler and maggot.
There was a tie for fourth place between Steve Pierpont and Pete Hamilton both weighing in 12lbs 4ozs.
The Mount Pleasant Angling Club also fished the Trent at the weekend and struggled somewhat to beat the conditions of low, clear water and lots of weed.
They chose the shallow length of Cuttle Brook where Kev Green threw off the mantle of habitually finishing in third or fourth place.
He won this one by a comfortable margin, weighing 10lbs 8ozs all roach and dace taken on the stick float.
He comfortably beat Martin Mogan into second place with 6lbs 8ozs.
Ian Brown finished in fourth place with three perch that weighed 1lb 8ozs — a low weight but it ensured that he beat anglers who were veterans at fishing this river.
