It was indeed a 'grand day out' but seemed a smidgen quieter than last year.
Maybe that's just my perception though
The wind was hardly doing anyone any favours in the morning, Tamas in particular got a bum deal in the #5wt.
Come the afternoon and things were a wee bit better.
Have to say this was the first time I've
seriously cast the T38 (last year I picked it up for the first time at the tape) and I think it's a hoot, but not as much as the T120 which (again) I'd not cast before until I was on the tape waiting for the stopwatch to start.
I suggested at the time that the T120 is a wee bit like a blood sport for competition casting..... brutal fun is the best I can come up with. Although I'd probably prefer to be chucking gear people are more likely to actually use (say a 15' rod for example) that T120 is proper 'man shit'. Even Kev gave it a go, but I was a wee bit concerned he was going to head after the rod on the delivery stroke.....
or lose a limb
Well done to Peter on getting a B100 trophy and winning the #7wt event outright
The Glasgow meet saw the introduction of the 27gram Sea Trout distance event at a BFCC gathering courtesy of our Ben doing the lobbying. Well done Ben. That brings one of the ICSF (
) events into the BFCC list and who knows it could replace other outfits in the future.
Interesting that 27g event, concious of the fact that I
could and
should have chucked that a lot further than I did. Hey ho, there's always next time and I have 'something in mind' for that event as it should be right up my street.
The trip home wasn't much fun
Made the mistake of taking a trip down memory lane and going via Loch Lomond and up the 'west' route home to Beauly. Still, we learn from our mistakes
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