Angling: ALL CHANGE!Byline: By SILVER WILKIE A NAIL-BITING Scottish Club Championship final ended with the Change Fly Fishers Angling Club B team taking this year's title - but only just. The Change trio, captain Willie Leach, from Falkirk, and his two club mates Jim Crawford Jim Crawford may refer to:
Runners-up Edinburgh Trout Anglers had 23 trout, but lost out because their catch weighed in four ounces less than the victors. So commiserations must go to the Edinburgh team who were also runners-up last year. Martin Grantham, of the Angling Centre, Stirling, who sponsors SANA's flagship club competition along with the Daily Record, presented Change with the Championship silver salver, gold medals, a cheque for pounds 500, and three Scierra rods. The Edinburgh Trout club's efforts were rewarded with three silver medals, a cheque for pounds 300 and three top of the range reels. The winning Change B trio beat their big brothers from the Change A team, who were placed third with 21 trout for 46lb 5oz. They got three bronze medals, three fly lines and a pounds 200 cheque. For two of the victors, Jim Crawford, 41, and Jim McBride, 51, it was the second time they got their hands on the Silver Salver. Jim Crawford won it for former Club, Grizzlecats and Jim McBride was fishing for former club, Lothian and Borders Police Lothian and Borders Police is the police force for the Scottish council areas of the City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, Scottish Borders and West Lothian. The force's headquarters are in Fettes Avenue, Edinburgh. team. Jim Crawford has been runner up twice in the Daily Record Champion of Champions - the final is on the Lake next Friday Next Friday is the 2000 sequel to Friday , which depicts the neighborhood of South Los Angeles in a comedic sense. The hero, Craig Jones (Ice Cube), leaves home and moves in with his lottery winning and sex-crazed Uncle Elroy (Don "D.C." Curry) in Rancho Cucamonga. . Captain Willie Leach, who will fish for Scotland, the hosts of the World Fly Fishing Championships next June, said: "It's the most prestigious event for Scottish trout anglers along with the Daily Record Champion of Champions." The secret of the Change B team's success was constant practice on the Lake, which has been fishing its socks off. They settled on midge midge, name for any of numerous minute, fragile flies in several families. The family Chironomidae consists of about 2,000 species, most of which are widely distributed. The herbivorous larvae are found in all freshwaters; the larvae of some species live in saltwater. tips as chosen lines, and armed them with a Sunburst Boobies on the tail and Cormorants, including mirage tinsel tin·sel n. 1. Very thin sheets, strips, or threads of a glittering material used as a decoration. 2. Something sparkling or showy but basically valueless: the tinsel of parties and promotional events. Cormorants, above. Willie said: "The trout weren't moving on the surface, but were taking a couple of feet down. "A fast retrieve attracted the fish which were closer to the top." The 18 teams from Scotland caught 280 trout weighing over 602lb. Best basket was 14 trout for 30lb 1oz caught by Kevin McCabe, secretary of the Change Fly Fishers club. FULL RESULTS.1.Change B, 22 trout for 50lb 11oz. 2. Edinburgh Trout Anglers, 23 trout for 50lb 7oz. 3. Change A, 21 trout for 46lb 5oz. 4. Leslie and Glenrothes, 21 trout for 43lb 2oz. 4. Newton Mearns, 19 trout for 42lb. 6. Strathleven, 20 trout for 41lb 12oz. 7. Crieff, 19 trout for 40lb. 8. Grizzlecats, 17 trout for 36lb 11oz. 9. Rothes Oak, 15 trout for 33lb 4oz. 10. Balfron Piscatorials, 15 trout for 31lb 4oz. 11. Aberdeen & Dist., 14 trout for 30lb 1oz. 12. Thack, 14 trout for 28lb 15oz. 13. Avonbank, 12 trout for 28lb 5oz. 14. Greenock & Dist., 11 trout for 23lb. 15. Rosebank, 11 trout for 21lb 11oz. 16. Townhill, nine trout for 18lb 8.6oz. 17. Strathtyrum, eight trout for 17lb 15oz. 18. Rainbow Warriors, seven trout for 15lb. Big-hearted anglers who fished in the heats and the final have so far raised an incredible total of pounds 2465 for the cardiac unit at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children The Royal Hospital for Sick Children is the name of 2 hospitals in Scotland:
CAPTION(S): WINNERS: Jim McBride, Willie Leach and Jim Crawford |
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