Picture by Rosemary Gunn

When a Junior day was held yesterday it was was blazing hot and bright. Overnight thunder storms prevailed, and on arrival it was raining heavily.  A very damp morning!  Keith never made it owing to driving into a flood and his car giving up the ghost.

With a light wind and calm conditions people fared very differently. Three caught full bags and Rosemary on the bank had four; the rest struggled. Alan lost one and got broken by what he assumes was a very decent fish.

The majority of fish seemed to be at the Lodge end of the lake.  Roy caught in the Buzzer Bay area on all methods and flies; Kez the same, fishing a Di 7, 6ft leader and damsel and  John Parnham caught on an intermediate. Rosemary could only get a floater and buzzers to work for her off the Lodge bank.

Congratulations to overall winner Kez. Roy had thought he was in with a shout, but his fish were smaller than those he caught the day before (5lb +). There are some excellent fit fighting fish coming out at present and there were many around the 3lb mark, so much weighing to see who had the heaviest fish!

Kevin Saxton  6 fish  17lb 0oz
Roy Henderson   6 fish   15lb 6oz
John Parnham   5 fish   13lb 0oz
Rosemary Gunn  4 fish  10lb 12oz
Paul Leivers  1 Fish  2lb 14oz
John Middleton   1 fish   2lb 12oz
Alan Smith   1 fish   2lb 8oz
Denis Rice  1 fish  2lb 0oz

Heaviest fish -3lb 2oz - John Parnham