Reports 2025 Season
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Tuesday Evening Social Fishing at Grafham
2026 – TBA
Bank trip to Elinor. The Norman Shippey Memorial
14th March 2026
Our first club fishing day of the year is always at Elinor and a spring morning of clear sky, warm sun and a cold NW wind greeted an unusually small group of 8 members, depleted by those stranded in Sri Lanka, on holiday in Morocco and fishing the evening day at Rutland Water.
We new Elinor would be a challenge still recovering from winter floods and less than a foot visibility but a cheery welcome from Jo Gifford and we spread along the north bank with the wind over right shoulders. Matt Collison is our local expert and usually fishes under a bung very close to the bank so most of us started copying him.
It was a slow start and Andrew Terry was the only rod to net in the first 3 hours using a pearly olive cormorant until John Brown wound in his Apps Bloodworm pattern after his last cast for lunch and netted the only other morning fish near to the boat dock.
We remained cheerful over lunch in the carpark and set off with new optimism. Matt quickly caught half way along the north bank (‘Gravel Bar’) and David lost one and then caught on a b&g tadpole fishing close by. Matt lost another at the net and then this hot-spot died away.
Neil had moved around the bank and finally caught on a blue flash damsel near the trees towards the same area.
So, with 5 rods catching one fish each the winner went to the first fish taken and Andrew Terry was the clear winner of the Norman Shippey Trophy.
Big thank you to Neil Potts for organising the day, Elinor is a lovely fishery and we are always made welcome so we hope the water clears soon and it has a successful season.
Our next club day is at Pitsford on Wednesday 1 April, hopefully a buzzer bonanza !
David Moore
Carr Cup 2026
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Results – TBA
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Bob Ayres Trophy – Dry Fly Match
2026
AMFC (Association of Major Flyfishing Clubs) 2026
The AMFC (Association of Major Flyfishing Clubs) is a series of club based matches. Invicta like to encourage as many members to get involved as possible, and runs 2 teams. There are 3 groups and we have our A team in Group 2 and the B team in Group 3.
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Results – TBA
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Invicta Snowbee Floating Line Match 2026
Grafham Water
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Hinckley Shield 2026
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Maitland Trophy 2026
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