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Competition Results 2008

D R Wilson Trophy - Steady Eddie puts the youngsters in their place!!   Congratulations to Eddie Riddell (81 years young) who has waited 42 long years to get his name on an ADAA trophy. Eddie who is a popular regular to the competitions fished hard for the four gruelling hours.   Fourteen anglers searched all round Loirston for a trout willing to take their offering but unfortunately only five fish were fooled into the net.   A brisk northerly wind made conditions quite testing but there were lots buzzers hatching. The fish should have been more forthcoming but perhaps the water needs to warm up a few degrees.  Fish were caught on different flies showing that they are not switched on to anything in particular yet – hares ear nymph, daiwl bach, dunkeld, cruncher.   The weigh-in didn’t take too long and the placings worked out as follows:   1st Eddie Riddell – 3lb 4oz 2nd John Jamieson – 2lb 6oz 3rd Richard McHattie – 1lb 10oz 4th equal Paul Toseland, Ernie Mackay – 1lb 3oz   Adam Junior Trophy 11 May 2008 Five juniors & four minors (youngsters under 12 years old) along with various mums, dads, relatives, & Committee members attended the first junior event of the year at the loch. As far as the juniors were concerned the first rainbow was caught by Jonathan Petrie. Stuart Crockett however found the right fly & finished up the winner with 3 rainbows. Ernest Mackay through perseverance also managed to get one near the end of the competition. This placed him & Jonathan as joint runners-up. Meantime the minors were enjoying themselves, especially five year old Ben Campbell who caught two, the biggest a cracker of a rainbow of 3lb 14oz. Paul Toseland.         John's saying "Gee I haven't seen one of those in years". Not true, see fishing report     Ben with 3.14oz rainbow, his 1st time ever fishing!         Mitchell Shield – Sunday 18th May (Loch of Loirston)   The loch had been fishing really well with massive hatches of olive buzzers coming off for the previous week and expectations were high among the 15 anglers attending the second competition of the year.   Within the first few casts it was evident that there was a large concentration of fish from scarecrow fence down to the trees at the farm side.   Most of the anglers in this area were catching fish on a regular basis. Buzzers and daiwl bachs seemed to be the order of the day on either floating lines or midge tips.   Fish were also caught out in the middle from the large stones at the road side.   In total there were 40 fish caught with a rod average of 2.6 fish per angler – a vast improvement from the first competition, which was 0.4 fish per angler.   1st Ernie Mackay – 9lb 9oz 2nd Mike Cordiner – 9lb 3rd Murray Hourston – 8lb 15oz 4th Paul Toseland – 8lb 7oz 5th Richard McHattie – 8lb 3oz    Current Positions   NAME COMP 1 COMP 2 TOTAL Ernie Mackay 4 8 12 Eddie Riddell 8 1 9 Paul Toseland 4 4 8 Richard McHattie 5 3 8 Mike Cordiner 1 6 7 John Jamieson 6 1 7

John Steer Cup - 1 June 2008

 

After a warm, balmy evening the day before hopes were high that a good rise would be on.

 

However on the evening of the competition after a dull & windy day the rain came on about 4pm & stayed on putting most of the fish down.

 

However of the 11 competitors that ventured out, most were rewarded for their efforts with 8 catching fish.

 

Richard McHattie & Chris McAllister had a couple of nice wild brownies, however the bulk of the catch were stocked fish.

 

3 anglers found the right spots and it turned out to be very close for the top places.

 

Kenny Riddell finished in third place and Paul Toseland just pipped Ernie MacKay by 1 oz to take the trophy.  Only 8 ozs separated the  three of them.

 

1^st Paul Toseland – 5lb 11oz

2^nd Ernie MacKay -  5lb 10 oz

3^rd Kenny Riddell – 5lb 3 oz

4^th Chris McAllister – 2lb 8oz

5^th Murray Hourston – 2lb

 

 

 

CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP – TOP 6

NAME	TOTAL
Ernie Mackay	18
Paul Toseland	16
Mike Cordiner	12
Eddie Riddell	10
Richard McHattie	10
Murray Hourston	9

 

Sun 15^th June – John Cameron Trophy, Upper Fintray

 

Eleven anglers competed in this evening competition that turned out to be very tricky due to the weather conditions.

 

A cold north wind reduced fly life to almost non-existent. Very few fish were seen rising in any area of the beat, even after the wind dropped for a while.

 

Four browns were caught downstream of the road bridge but the normally productive top part of the beat didn’t really switch on.

 

Fintray is well known for it’s big specimen fish and it wasn’t until the very last cast of the night for Chris McAllister that one eventually decided to take an artificial.

 

The fish took a well presented wet fly close to the far bank and weighed in at 3lb 14oz.

 

This was more than enough to take first place pushing  Mike Cordiner into 2^nd place with two trout (1lb 3oz), Kenny Riddell 3^rd place with one brownie (11oz) and Richard McHattie was the only other lucky angler with one at 9oz.

 

This result makes things very tight at the top of the table:

 

NAME	COMP 1	COMP 2	COMP 3	COMP 4	TOTAL
Ernie Mackay	4	8	6	1	19
Mike Cordiner	1	6	5	6	18
Paul Toseland	4	4	8	1	17
Chris McAllister	1	2	4	8	15
Richard McHattie	5	3	2	4	14
Kenny Riddell	1	2	5	5	13

 

 

McGee Junior Cup 22 June 2008

 

Four juniors & one minor ventured out in the torrential downpour that had started the night before & didn’t really go off until about an hour before the end of the competition.

 

Ernest MacKay & Callum Clark, both fly-fishing, managed to hook fish early on but couldn’t get them to stay on.

 

Then Callum, fishing off the jetty on the roadside, hooked a rainbow trout that after a long fight was netted & weighed in at 1lb 11ozs.

 

However Ernest on the farm side hit a hot spot shortly after this & in the space of about ¼ hour caught the three rainbows that won him the Cup.

 

Paul Toseland.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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