Images from 2018/19 Season
Tony Smith with a fine 7lb 9oz Brown taken at Rutland. A contender for the Brown Trout Trophy ?
Chris McLeod, Dave Summers, Mark Searle, Gary How, Keith Gilchrist
Matt Willatt, Keiran Bonas, Graham Bodsworth, Mick Facey Joan Russell
A big Brown at Pitsford for Mark Searle…
Youth, the future for our sport
William Crawford Top English Rod at the TEFF Youth International 2018
Ollie Brand with his 4th fish during an evening league match.
…and the experience of slightly more years!
David Moore 5lb 13oz Brown from Rutland in the Team England Qualifier.
6lb plus brown for Gary How at Pitsford.
Invicta Casting Clinic 2018
Images from 2017/18 Season
Invicta’s Northern Representative Peter Oldham catching grayling on the Dee.
Invicta Win the Hinckley Shield. Team: Graham Bodsworth, David Moore, Chris McLeod, Keith Gilchrist, Matt Willatt and Jamie Thomas
Team : Chris McLeod, Tony Smith, Mark Searle and David Moore. Tony was also Individual Top Rod.
East Midlands Trout Fishers Association ‘50th Anniversary Pairs Competition’. In a field of 56, the Invicta pairing of Paul Heavens and Jeff Hickson were runners up. (Mick Facey with Paul and Jeff).
Some Cracking Fish!
Matt Willatt with a brace of fine Browns both over 5lbs taken in the same session at Grafham in early October.
2017 Grafham Evening League winner, Keith Gilchrist
A splendid Brown of 7lbs for Peter Brewer. The fish was weighed and witnessed. A definite contender for best Brown of the season.
Mark Haycock with what may be the best Brown caught by a member this year. The fish taken at Grafham is around 8lb but not weighed, not surprising that Mark looks so happy.
Selected images from past seasons
River Test Trip 26th October 2016
We are the Champions
The National Trout Centre , Tongariro New Zealand. Free flyfishing lessons every day for children. Pool stocked heavily each day with 1 – 2lb trout to encourage youngsters to take up the sport. Should we be learning from this?
From the Archives
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The members in the ‘Hardy’ team photograph are Doug Head, John Caldwell, Graham Williams, Mark Searle, Peter Oldham (with Mexican bandit mustache) and Chris McLeod.
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- Alan Prevost
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- Alan Prevost impaled with fly in the lip!
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- Arthur Sexton wins a bike!
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- Carl Hunter
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- Graden Smith
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- Dave Cheesley
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- Chris McLeod float tubing
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- The Invicta ‘Hardy’ team 1999.
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- Graham Williams on the Test
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- Irish ‘Blackwater’ trip
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- Mike Smith asleep!
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- John Rolphe and Charles Jardine
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- Ken Sellars
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- John Gale at Rutland (1980’s)
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- Paul Heavens and John Christmas 170lbs of bream and roach river Ant, Norfolk. c 1980
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- Martha Thompson with a fine Grafham fish
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- Who do you think this young angler is?
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- Ian Baldock at Pitsford
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- John Gale, 8 pounder, a record for Grafham at the time (1980)
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- John Gale, 14lb rainbow from Preston Lake Suffolk
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- Kieran Bonas with two fine perch
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- Peter Hartley with a monster
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- Graham Williams with a 20lb ‘Chinook’ Salmon in Canada
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- John Mees 5.8lb Grafham Rainbow
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- Mark Haycock with another fine Grafham trout
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- Chris McLeod’s big brownie
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- President Norman Shippey
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- Arthur Sexton
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- Who is this young Anglian Water Fisheries Manager c1970s
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- Henry Lowe c 1980
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- Sue Potts proudly displays her first ever trout. (Draycote)
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- Alan Taylor with rod bender on the Wye.
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- Peter Oldham nets a Wharfe Grayling
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- Gary How 60 not out!
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- The Duke of Edinburgh visits Grafham Water to mark its 50th anniversary.
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- Peter Oldham and Joan Russell attending the ‘Fishing for Forces’ Luncheon at the House Of Lords
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- Kieran Caulfield with Atlantic Blue Tuna caught off the Irish coast
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- 70lbs of Mekong Catfish
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- Mark Searle -Buzzer Protection
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- Joan Russell 5lb 12oz Best Brown of the 2014/15 season
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- Peter Oldham -5lb 12oz Rainbow from Elinor.
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