Toft Newton Vision Stillmaniac Classic – Match rules

June 2, 2021

Toft Newton Vision Stillmaniac Classic – Match rules

If you’re considering joining us on Saturday 30th October for this wonderful event you might like to study our rules in order to help you prepare. if you’ve any queries or suggestions at all please give Andy a call on 01673 878453 or 07395 314423. we reserve the right to make minor changes and these will always be done in the interest of a fair spirited competition.

FLY LINES MUST BE AS MANUFACTURED – NO SHOOTING HEADS.
FLIES MUST BE TIED ON SINGLE HOOKS ONLY, NO DOUBLES OR TREBLES TO BE USED.
HOOKS MUST BE MANUFACTURED BARBLESS ONLY – THIS PREVENTS VARIATION ON ACCEPTABILITY.
SNAKE FLIES MAY BE USED BUT MAY ONLY HAVE 1 HOOK.
BOOBIES, FAB’S AND OTHER FLIES CONTAINING FOAM ARE PERMITTED.
FLIES MAY BE WEIGHTED AND OR HAVE BEADS IN THEIR CONSTRUCTION.
TUBE FLIES MAY BE USED BUT MUST ONLY CONTAIN 1 BARBLESS SINGLE HOOK.
MAXIMUM OF 4 FLIES ON ONE LEADER.
FLIES MUST BE A MINIMUM OF 5OCM APART FROM WHERE THE FLY MEETS THE MAIN LEADER (TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE LENGTH OF THE DROPPER)
ANGLERS TO USE ONLY 1 ROD AT A TIME, A MAXIMUM OF 2 SPARE RODS MAY BE MADE UP READY TO USE.
AFTER LANDING A FISH, COMPETITORS MUST GET THEIR SCORECARD SIGNED BY ONE OF THE ANGLERS NEXT TO THEM OR A MATCH OFFICIAL BEFORE COMMENCING FISHING AGAIN.
ANGLERS MUST ONLY FISH FROM THEIR DESIGNATED PEG.
ANGLERS PLAYING A FISH ‘ON THE WHISTLE’ AT THE END OF A SESSION MUST LAND THE FISH PRIOR TO THE START OF THE NEXT SESSION. ANGLERS PLAYING A FISH AT FULL TIME ON THE LAST PEG WILL HAVE 5 MINUTES IN WHICH LAND THE FISH.
THE EVENT IS PRIMARILY CATCH AND RELEASE, 2 POINTS WILL BE AWARDED FOR THE FIRST FISH ON EACH PEG AND FOLLOWED BY A POINT FOR EACH ADDITIONAL FISH UPTO A MAXIMUM OF 5 FISH ON EACH PEG – A BONUS POINT WILL BE ADDED FOR ANY ANGLER WHO CATCHES A 5 FISH LIMIT FROM ANY PEG – I.E A MAXIMUM OF 7 POINTS ARE ATTAINABLE ON EACH PEG.
ANGLERS MAY KILL ONE FISH THROUGHOUT THE DAY – THIS MAY THEN BE ENTERED FOR WEIGHING IN FOR THE BIGGEST FISH PRIZE.
THE ANGLER WITH THE MOST POINTS AT THE END OF THE COMPETITION WILL BE DEEMED THE WINNER.
ANGLERS MUST RECORD THE TIME OF THEIR FIRST FISH ON EACH PEG. THIS MAY BE USED IN THE EVENT OF A TIE.
ANGLERS FOUND BREAKING ANY OF THE RULES WILL BE DISQUALIFIED – THE MATCH ORGANISERS DECISION IS FINAL.
ANGLERS MUST RAISE ANY CONCERNS OF FOULPLAY WITHIN 30 MINUTES OF FISHING FINISHING.

Fishing Report and News 9/5/22 – 15/5/22

Some heavy rain in the middle of last week kept a few anglers away dashing our hopes of an attendance similar to the previous week – that said we still enjoyed a decent steady turnout, we just love you to take full advantage whilst the fishing is so good…………………….

Fishing Report and News 2/5/22 – 8/5/22

The last week made it in to our top 3 attendances of the season as anglers took advantage of the recent great fishing weather and enjoyed Toft during ‘primetime’.

In keeping with the general trend recently, imitative tactics reigned supreme again with a mixture of nymph and dry fly tactics accounting for probably 90% of the fish caught. Favourite patterns included both olive and black buzzers, crunchers, diawl bach, hares ear, shipmans, shuttlecocks and daddies. Its been great to see that our fish are really piling the weight on with the masses of natural food available, many anglers have reported catching several fine quality fish in the……….

Fishing report and News 25/4/22 – 01/5/22

98 rods caught 739 trout for a rod average of 7.54

A real bumper week again!

As we slip into May the season is well and truly in full swing and the fish obliging on the whole to the imitative approach employed by most of the anglers. Those that have fared best seemed to be the ones that could spot when to change depths, during brighter spells dropping deeper seemed to be a decent way to keep catching a few fish……..

Fishing Report and News 18/4/22 – 24/4/22

123 Anglers caught 360 fish for a rod average of 2.92

A week started with some promise and good settled weather soon turned abit less consistent and tested the resolve of anglers to the limit. A stiff north easterly breeze and bright sunshine for the second half of the week did little to maintain last weeks incredible rod average and those that fished from boat whilst slightly less comfortable probably enjoyed the better sport…………….

Fishing Report and News 11/4/22 – 17/4/22

116 anglers caught 794 trout for a rod average of 6.84

Toft keeps giving at the moment and our excellent stock of fish have proved to be very cooperative indeed. At the risk of sounding like a broken record nothing much has changed in the way of tactics – it’s the time of year to generally adopt an imitative type of approach……………………………

Fishing Report and News 4/4/22-10/4/22

75 anglers caught 493 trout (67 killed) for a rod average of 6.57

Windy weather made for a slightly quieter week than we would have liked, the fishing however remained fabulous as Tofts trout gorged on the massive profusion of buzzers throughout the levels of the water column. Both black and olive buzzer imitations played a big part in catches and as lots of quality trout made their way to the landing nets of our anglers.

We spooned several fish this week to help us to ‘match the hatch’ and you can see from the pictures that they were certainly feeding very well indeed – the majority of the sport has been with floating lines and imitative types of flies – the real ‘cream’ of the seasons fishing – its literally buzzer soup out there!