Nick Halstead Presentation Evening May 2014

After a long wait heres a blog on our Nick Halstead Presentation evening....

Nick Halstead a well established fly angler, both on the competition scene and as a contributor of the reputable fly fishing magazine "Trout Fisherman".
With Nicks long standing reputation in the fly fishing industry, he was the right first speaker in our first ever Nomad Presentation. This evening took place on Saturday 17th May, first commencing our monthly team meeting, around 4:30pm.

Following on was Nick with his presentation, around 6pm until 8pm.

A massive thank you goes out to Nick for keeping the entire 20+ Members on the edge of their seats, every single anglers commented on how down to earth Nick was, which made it that much more enjoyable!

Heres a snippet of the evening, a few beers followed in the local pub, talks of fly fishing for bass! and our trip to Braithwaite and possibly Rutland Water discussed.... A great end to a great evening, we WILL be having Nick back, if he will be as kind enough to honour us with his presence for a second time next season!

Thanks ever so much Nick for an evening to remember....

Tightlines
Nathan
Chairman
nathj89@icloud.com
www.northwestnomadsflyfishing.co.uk

10 Nomads ventured out up to Stocks Reservoir today. In windy conditions the top pairing was our England Youth team members, Oliver Avis and Aaron Carnie, with a fantastic 31 fish to the boat. Good angling young 'uns.

Members. Today saw the first of our dual outings. Our Chairman, Nathan Jones lead a group of four down to Staffordshire for our first ever visit to Blithfield Reservoir . The group consisting of Nathan, John Burrow, Olly Avis and Dez Lynam, found this new venue tough going. Windy conditions hampered their progress a little but not enough to claim a blank catch return.

All four got into the fish with Olly bagging 4 and Nathan with 3.

Secretary, Steve Elliott, lead the other group to Raygill over the Yorkshire border. The group of 5 battled against the strong gusting winds to claim fish close to the bank. First trout to the bank was netted by Aaron Carnie - closely followed by Jim McGinley.

By lunchtime all the Nomads had found fish. Aaron and Jim leading the totals with well over 20 fish between them. Steve had 4, Nick Woodward with 2 and new member Paul Kuczera with 1.

The afternoon session belonged to Steve Elliott, with and incredible return of 32 rainbows finishing the day as top rod with a massive total of 36. White Cats Whisker Boobies and White FABS taking the Lions share of the fish in the top three feet of water.

Not to be outdone, Aaron ran Steve a close second, finishing with 31, while Jim bagged-up with 24. Boobies and Blobs also doing the damage Paul managed a further 4 and Nick finished with 2. An amazing total of 98 for the day. Good angling chaps!!!