Images from the 2019 Season
Members taking advantage of Peter Hartley’s Casting Lessons.
Alan Briggs with 5lb 1oz brown during Carr cup match at Pitsford
Members enjoying the Annual Dinner
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Some of the trophies presented at the dinner. Ray Storer, John Brown, Keith Gilchrist, David Moore, Tony Smith, Chris McLeod.
Invicta Members hand over a cheque for £1150 to the Arthur Rank Hospice in memory of Graham Williams. The money was raised by members paying a small additional amount at each match during the season.
Selected Images from Previous Seasons
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’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).
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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- 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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- Invicta ‘A Team’ 2016 AMFC G2 Winners
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