Sport Fly Fishing N.Z. (Inc) News

TEAM REPORT - SUNDAY 20/6/2010 - 20 June 2010

We its now all over and we are into the post mortem and the story telling.

The last day was very interesting with the team and individual placing changing a lot.
It was poring down with rain by the time the first session stated and the river had started to colour up a bit.

Des was on the lake at the top end for this session and managed to get get 9 fish which was a good number (some how the French man managed to get 20) Peter was at the bottom of the lake was the hard end, he got two fish but one was foul hooked so only one counted which was quite good as there were quite a few blanks.
Aaron got 4 fish on the river which put him in 7th for his group Dan got two and Tony one.

When I checked the overall results after this session at lunch time I was very surprised to see Des was 1st overall all for the individual results on 20 points from two on 21 and three others on 22 points

The NZ team was still placed in 10th position so we had not moved, the Poles were leading from France and the Czech's

I went to see Des at the Lake as he had the bottom section for the afternoon and decided not to tell him about him leading as he had enough to deal with on this tough end of the lake.

Aaron was on the top section and feeling quite confident, he did the business and came in with 7 fish to place high in the group, Des found it tough and dropped a few fish and managed to land one to place well down.

Buy now the rivers were chocolate brown but some sections had a reasonably clean bit in the middle or on the far side, Peter had one of these and he used it well to land 3 fish but this meant wading back across 100 plus meters or dirty high river to the controller each time, he went for a swim on one occasion (which I managed to get a picture of) but held onto the fish. His 3 fish placed him 8th.
Dan got 2 fish from his beat which also got him 8th as there were a lot of blanks on his session. Tony also got 2 fish on a very dirty section of the river.

When the results came out we had moved up to be placed 8th overall, Des unfortunately had dropped to 14th, one more fish on the lake would have put him up about 8 places. Aaron finished in 29th place

The Czech's had moved up to win from France, Slovakia and Poland in 4th.
Pavel Chyba(Czech) was first individual, Adam Tomas (Chech) 2nd and John Horsey (Eng) 3rd

Other results were Australia 9th, England 11th and USA 15th

Off to the closing ceremony today and then to Wales for the Commonwealth Champs

Paul Dewar Team Captain