Auction for A day with Neil Maidment

[Morespiders]

Will, mail me your address, and i will send you some flies for the occasion.
Maidments only catch the small trout

 

[Neil Maidment]

Hi Neil,

Really looking forward to it.

I have done a bit of fly fishing before, and have a bit of gear, but I have never been very successful. I have certainly never been able to stalk trout before. My little experience has always been on a big reservoir.

Could we leave the day until the summer holidays? I teach so will be off for six weeks from the middle of July and am happy to fit in any time after then.

I have a very nice hat and a suitable pair of sunglasses too. The sense of humour is a compulsary requirement for all Barbel Society committee!

Will

July/August it is then, excellent!

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Will, mail me your address, and i will send you some flies for the occasion.
Maidments only catch the small trout

Size 12/14 leaded (heavy) buzzers, nymphs and bugs will be the order of the day - any colour will do!

The fishery record is well above 30lbs!!!

 

[Richard Farrow]

Many thanks to you Neil and Will, and it goes without saying, Cakey for running the auction. Thanks fellas.

 

[Cakey]

cheers Will got the cheque......................

 

[Will Golightly]

Great stuff!

 

[Will Golightly]

Thanks to Spiders, I have a beautiful set of flies now, ready for my day out.

I can't wait!


Will

 

[Neil Maidment]

Nipped in for a bit practice this morning. Only two fish found their way into my net......

.... for a total of just over 32lbs!

Heaviest @ 18lb 12oz is a new pb.

 

[Windy]

Nipped in for a bit practice this morning. Only two fish found their way into my net......

.... for a total of just over 32lbs!

Heaviest @ 18lb 12oz is a new pb.

So that's your entry in the May photo competition sorted.... :wh

Trout fillet sandwiches anyone ? Ten a day for the next month !

 

[Peter Jacobs]

Nipped in for a bit practice this morning. Only two fish found their way into my net......

.... for a total of just over 32lbs!

Heaviest @ 18lb 12oz is a new pb.

So, you only managed just 2 fish in the whole morning?

Reckon you ought to have tried a little . . . . . . . . harder . . . . .


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[Will Golightly]

Blimey!

Just one fish and half the size of either of those two would be mindblowing!!!

Makes my two pounders look a bit sick.

Great fish Neil and well done on the new pb.

 

[Neil Maidment]

Six and a half hours at the venue, perhaps cast about half a dozen times each to four or five different fish, lots of slow walking, standing still, waiting and waiting and....

... all for a few minutes of unbelievable tension, then exhilaration as one of the big girls actually sips in the fly..... not everyone's cup of tea but I think its BLOODY MARVELOUS! Shame I can't afford to do it more often!

 

[Neil Maidment]

Here's a little "taster" of Will's charity day at Avington:

Flixtime - Avington

Full report will be sent in soon!

 

[Cakey]

Cooooooooooool