{"id":1136,"date":"2016-05-11T12:01:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T10:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyfishing-blog.com\/flyfishing-blog.com\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2016-05-11T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T07:04:06","slug":"belgium-team-reaches-awai-final-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfishing-blog.com\/flyfishing-blog.com\/2016\/05\/11\/belgium-team-reaches-awai-final-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium team reaches AWAI Final 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Belgium team \u201cFly Fishing Forever\u201d, which consists of Albert Bigar\u00e9, Tony Perin, Alec Vanrijkel, Geert Janssens, Patrick De Schutter and Guido Vinck (picture), has qualified itself on the 3rd and 4th of May for the European AWAI-final.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Anglian Water Airflo International final is the most prestigious reservoir fly-fishing competition, one which is fished from drifting boats. Every year a few hundred teams from all over Europe take part in the selection competitions. It was \u201cbuzzer time\u201d on the 1300 hectare large Rutland Water in the UK, which meant impressive sport with large trout. On both days the team managed to win over the other teams and now they have the right to fish for Belgium on the 4th and 5th of October amongst 23 other top-teams from Europe for the top-prize, the Anglian Water Airflo International.<\/p>\n

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A brown trout of close to five pounds caught during the competition, still time was taken to take some pictures of this fine catch.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Rutland Water will be the location for the final, the Belgium team has explored the competition water therefore already. The team is sponsored by G.Loomis-Shimano and P & O.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Belgium team \u201cFly Fishing Forever\u201d, which consists of Albert Bigar\u00e9, Tony Perin, Alec Vanrijkel, Geert Janssens, Patrick De Schutter and Guido Vinck (picture), has qualified itself on the 3rd and 4th of May for the European AWAI-final. The Anglian Water Airflo International final is the most prestigious reservoir fly-fishing competition, one which is fished […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[346,483,49,485,484,100,249],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitons","tag-airflo","tag-awai","tag-belgium","tag-final","tag-rutland","tag-team","tag-water"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t