Royalty Report 23^rd – 29^th June 2012-06-27

 

With the heavy rain and fast flowing water, the anglers who have braved onto the banks of the river have mostly been rewarded for their efforts. Static fishing was proving difficult in the heavy flow and the loose weed coming downstream, so rolling meat anglers lead the way with some fine reports of good fish and multiple catches from the fishery.

Whereas in the first week, many of the fish came from the top end of the fishery above the Watersmeet area, it would now seem that perhaps the increased flow and angling pressure has moved many of these fish on and catch reports are beginning to appear from up and down the fishery.Static anglers are still catching in slack water areas out of the main flow and are often finding baits lowered alongside the bank to be the most productive.

Whilst we are hearing of captures through word of mouth, we are sadly not always receiving details either directly to the tackle shop or via the email address of This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   Please do try and submit your reports and catch photos whenever you can, giving us as many details as you care to share to make our reports both informative for others to read and interesting as a historical reference to view in our report archives in forthcoming years, thank you.

Paul Yates continued his rich vein of form from the first week and caught another two nice specimens on separate occasions whilst out rolling. The first fish that can be seen is his 8lb 10oz fish and the second a beautiful double weighing in at 11lb 9oz, both caught rolling meat. (2 x pictures of Paul)

One visiting angler who did extremely well during his stay in Christchurch was Barry Garwood. Barry decided to predominantly roll meat during his visit and was rewarded with multiple captures on most days and in fact the only day he didn’t catch was when he sadly felt too ill to fish.

Jim Maclannan also did extremely well on his visit, choosing to fish the point swim. Jim’s efforts were rewarded by him catching 3 Barbel, a fit and fighting 8lb 2oz fish and followed this up with two fine specimen doubles at 13lb 5oz and 10lb 12oz. (3 x pictures of Jim)

Week 2 - Reported Captures (23/6/2012 – 29/6/2012)

Date	Captor	Species	Area	Weight	Method	Bait
23/6/2012	Darren Smith	Barbel	Top stile	3 fish to 8lb 8oz	Ledger	Pellet
23/6/2012	Paul Yates	Barbel	Roving	8lb 10oz	Rolling	Meat
25/6/2012	Barry Garwood	Barbel	Roving	9lb 10oz, 6lb 9oz, 7lb 4oz, 8lb 6oz	Rolling	Meat
25/6/2012	Danny Garwood	Barbel	-	6lb	-	-
25/6/2012	Paul Yates	Barbel	Trammels	11lb 9oz	Rolling	Meat
25/6/2012	Jim Maclannan	Barbel	Point Swim	8lb 2oz, 10lb 12oz 13lb 5oz	-	-
26/6/2012	Barry Garwood	Barbel	Fiddlers	6lb	Ledger	Pellet
26/6/2012	-	Barbel	Compound	11lb 8oz	-	-
26/6/2012	-	Barbel	Top Stile	12lb	-	-
27/6/2012	Barry Garwood	Barbel	Roving	7lb, 7lb 10oz	Rolling	Meat
29/6/2012	Barry Garwood	Barbel	Roving	7lb 1oz, 7lb 14oz, 8lb, 11lb 2oz	Rolling	Meat