Willie Windwick Cup
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Top rod Jim Adams |
SUN AND WIND ON BOARDHOUSE FOR WILLIE WINDWICK CUP
We anglers are never happy, greeting about the cold last week, there’s an improvement in the temperature and we’re moaning about the sun and wind, there’s aye something wrong.
Boardhouse was at its enigmatic worst for many of the 23 anglers fishing for the Willie Windwick Cup on Sunday. The writing was on the wall at the 11am start as bright sunshine and a scuddy westerly made the loch look very uninviting. Whatever, the boats spread out over the loch with the Pumphouse, Tufta and out in the middle proving popular. It wasn’t long before there were big shifts in location by many boats, a sure sign that plan A was sacked, on to plan B. For many anglers, it was to turn out very difficult, with no clear method or area producing fish.
Boardhouse is the most peculiar loch we fish, it’s no secret. If you’re the blue eyed boy on the day, she will throw fish at you no matter what, if she takes the hump with you, there’s not a thing you can do to put fish in the boat, and the harder you try, the more impossible it gets.
Jim Adams had a brilliant day, lifting the Willie Windwick Cup with 10 fish for 9lb 9ozs, which also included the heaviest fish of the day at 1lb 13ozs, brilliant angling sir! Runner up was Gary Ballantyne with 13 for 8lb 14ozs, followed by Ken Kennedy with 9 for 7lb 14ozs and Sandy McConnachie with 6 for 5lb 1oz.
Orange Hedgehogs were the top flies for the successful anglers, but I dearsay many anglers were fishing one for no response, Floaters were the order of the day in the line choice, but I think location was everything, with Jim and Ken fishing from the Pumphouse down towards the Tufta Shore. There were a few boys kicking stones about the car park at the weigh in with little or nothing to show for their day, a position we’ve all been in at this loch.
Never mind, it’s off to Swannay on Wednesday night for a rearranged fixture, it’s been fishing very well during the day
KK
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