Harbour Lights Fly Fishers – Winter league II
Arranview Trout Fishery
Saturday 10th December:
A cold day with light rain showers, on the hour every hour. However this didn’t dampen the spirits of club members in attendance, with 11 rods on the water and 94 fish caught – an average of approx 8 ½ fish per rod.
Arranview Trout fishery did us proud, Jake and Ann were perfect hosts and provided breakfast, lunch, 4 fish kill ticket then catch and release all for £23 a rod.
Scores on the doors:
1st – David (Woody) Watson; 14 fish
2nd – Wullie Munn; 14 fish
3rd – Graham Ferguson; 13 fish
4th – Kevin Grents; 13 fish
5th – Robbie Roberton; 11 fish
6th – Young Gary; 7 fish
7th – Jamie Graham; 5 fish
8th – John Galloway; 6 fish
9th – Tommy Webster; 5 fish
10th – Alec Anderson; 4 fish
11th – Scott Brown; 2 fish
Fishing Analysis;
1st – David (Woody) Watson, aka “Shiny Sleeve”; Woody consistent as he has been all season, notching up another win however not without some controversy. Gained his new nick name (from another fisherman not known to the club) for elbowing his way into prime fishing spots as soon as a fish was caught. If that was done on a football park, he would most certainly be red carded. (official club letter to follow). Joking aside, well done Woody!
2nd – Wullie Munn; Wullie fished hard all day, producing a fish almost ever half hour. This was until Fergie, slagged Wullie’s “Tartan Tiers” most beautiful fleece jacket, with 2 hours to go by shouting “a wdny wear it to answer the phone”. Wullie’s head appeared to go down then, and so did his fish count.
3rd – Graham Ferguson; Not a good start by Fergie! Fergie seemed to appear lethargic and uninterested with his belly appearing to get in the way. Half a dozen of Ann’s sausage rolls, a plate of sandwiches, 5 yorkshire puddings filled with mince, 2 plates of soup and Fergie was back with a vengeance. Slagging Wullie, appeared to get Fergie back on to his usual form and a late surge put him into 3rd position.
4th – Kevin Grents; Turned up drunk as per usual, just so as not to let himself, or the club reputation down. Fished like a demon right up to lunch and went into the hut the leader from the morning session. However after lunch the drink wore off and the hangover kicked in. The fishing pressure from Woody was all too much for Kevin and his **** collapsed, only managing 3 fish the whole afternoon – poor show (should have stayed drunk).
5th – Robbie Roberton; Totally consistent all day, However Robbie almost certainly missing his side kick (Wullie Olsen) and this was evident in Robbie’s performance (love sick – maybe). Robbie showed great striking ability as soon as his indicator left the surface film of the water dislodging a number of fishes heads. Robbie would almost certainly have won if fish heads counted as complete fish.
6th – Young Gary; Got off to a blistering start, however after Alec threatened to take Gary to the billet for a pumping, Gary appeared to retreat into the shadows and his fishing suffered as a result. Gary left 10 minutes early for some strange reason, and may have been higher up in the scores on the doors, had he fished the full session and took the pumping from Alec.
7th – Jamie Graham; Snapped his brand new G-Tec and couldn’t see his indicator for the tears which were blinding him. Couldn’t find any Kleenex in his box and sat the whole afternoon looking dejected. Appeared to perk up when Woody rubbed him accidently, while fishing in his pocket, but even this couldn’t console Jamie. Finished a poor 7th due to staring at the broken tip section of his rod – was on to the phone to the Glasgow Angling Centre before he left the car park.
8th – John Galloway; Jock spent 3/4s of the day rolling the “old hoburn”. An uncontroversial fish, from the squeaky clean Jock. Perhaps if he spent less time rolling fags and more time fishing, he would be higher up the stakes. Put an awfa dent in Ann’s buffet, however that was all, the fish have little to fear, until Jock gets on the ready rolled fags, and then they may be in trouble.
9th – Tommy Webster; a low placing, from a new member who we all had high expectations from. Tommy came to us with a fearsome reputation for catching the trout, however this has yet to show. Don’t want to say much more as apparently Tommy is well quoted in the Karate world, maybe the fish had heard this too and decided to stay away. Apparently doesn’t even need to use a priest, but not many fish found this out on the day.
10th – Alec Anderson; Usually up there in amongst the top rods, however not on this particular day. Alec appeared to let his talking do the fishing, and never shut up all day. Appeared very pre-occupied, possibly with the thought of pumping young Gary – no wonder Gary couldn’t fish and left early.
11th – Scott Brown; Oh dear!!
Thanks to Arranview Trout Fishery for a great day, and to the hosts Jake and Ann, unbelievable lunchtime spread, Thanks again!
Harbour Lights Fly Fishers - Winter League II
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