11th Fips-Mouche Youths World Fly Fishing Championships, France 2012
The 11th Fips-Mouche Youth World Fly Fishing Championships are taking place in the Lozére Region in France from the 8th to the 15th July 2012 with the competition itself being held from Wednesday the 11th July to Friday the 13th July.
There are four river sessions and on lake session (from a boat). The designated for the championship are the Lot (Upper), Lot (Lower), Colagne and Allier while the lake session is on Charpal Lake. The river beats will be an average of 350 metres in length and following on from the World Youths in Italy this year one of the river sessions (the session on the Upper Lot) is dry fly only with only one dry (floating) fly being allowed.
The eligible species on the river sessions are brown trout and grayling while on the lake session the eligible species are roach, perch and pike.
The Rule modifications for the championships can be viewed here: RM FRANCE 2012
The best of luck to all the Youths that will make the Irish Team which will be announced in due course.
