Superb day today despite the weather, great turn out (John R WTF happened to you, hangover is not an excuse)
Our day started off with a few beers at the Premier Inn Glasgow Airport, cheap & more than adequate.
Few pics from the day
Big thanks to all those who made the days happen, event was very well attended despite the grim weather, didn't really notice it myself but there have been better days for throwing lines in a field.
Serious faces along the line
Hamish young YMCA gets his tracking checked
Mike throws the TCR5, more on Mike later
Some of the guys from the Glasgow CC having a play with the T120 salmon distance outfit, was good to meet some of the Glasgow boys, some pretty awesome casting on display
This thing is called a salmon distance outfiit but it is about as far removed from a salmon rod as it gets. I believe the blank is a 3.5lb test curve carp blank fitted with a level spacer at the butt end to make it up to 17'. The line is a tungsten head about 60' long tied to 6lb stren, not sure how much it weighs but it's a lot. In the right hands in good conditions these things will go to well over 200', very hard work but great fun
Mick Bell (Bloke) throwing the T120 & John Reynolds on the T38
The T38 is another casting sport outfit that has no connection to anything fishing related, again very good fun but hard work. The T38 outfit is a 9'6" rod that would come in about a 17 weight if rated for fishing. The line used is a 50 ish foot 38 gram tungsten shooting head backed with 6lb Stren. This set up is also capable of distances of over 200' in the right hands in good conditions, more than about 10 minutes really starts to hurt.
For me the highlight of the day was Mr Barrio getting his 35 yard badge, Mike chucked a cast of 105' something with a GT140S #9 on my Helios 909TF, well deserved Mike, I know you've been putting the time in.
Mike Barrio receives his badge from Mike Marshall
Hamish (I don't practice & I'm not very good) Young managed to take first place in the #5 competition with a cast of 110'10", a serious result in the conditions we had today, trying to straighten a back cast with enough carry to take any line over 100' was very difficult. That really puts you up there H, I suggest you go buy a TCR5 cos I is not lending you mine again
Hamish getting his 1st place trophy from Mike. H also won the B100 competition. This is for folk who don't cast competitively, I think he was pulling a bit a fast one entering in that class anyway but now he has won it he now
has to cast in the elite class at any future meets, I think there is also some rule about getting all the coffees in for the three BFCC meets after winning B100 class.
H also picked up a 35yard badge and only just missed out on the 40.
Day finished off with the obligatory shit greasy fishing meal a Stirling before we left to come home. Hopefully Hamish made it back safe, there appeared to be quite a lot of stuff hanging off the bottom of his car as we came back up the road
bit of casting footage here, did not take very much, was a bit wet for the camera.
Cheers
Ben
