Smithfield Sheild
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Top rod Jim Harcus |
TOUGH CONDITIONS FOR REARRANGED SMITHFIELD SHIELD
Saturday saw the first of the two fixtures which were postponed by high winds over the last couple of weeks. It’s fair to say that it has been a horrendous year for the loch angler with most scunnered with it.
Anyway, given the conditions, turbid brown water and sun, Boardhouse actually fished quite well with some good baskets of fish. A reduced number of anglers for this one, with 21 participating, spread out on the popular drifts with the SW wind decreasing as the day went on.
It’s always good to get it right on the first drift of the day, and Jim Harcus certainly did with a fish first cast, and 5 in the first hour, completing his day with 11 fish for 9lb 6lb, easily securing the Smithfield Shield, tremendous angling. The rest of the field just had to scratch around picking up odd fish here and there over the day. Runner up Ian Hutcheon with 6 fish for 6lb 1oz also had some good fortune, catching the best fish of the day in the last couple of minutes of the competition, an absolute peach of a fish going 2lb 4ozs. Others who scored included Brian Thompson with 6 fish for 5lb 12ozs, Stewy Leslie with 8 fish for 4lb 7ozs and Ken Kennedy with 5 fish for 4lb 6ozs.
There was a sparse Olive hatch which helped the cause, with Hedgehogs in Orange, Olive doing some business as did small wets and Muddlers. The Barony end, right up at Oxer and the Narrows were probably the best areas.
KK
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