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Spring 2014

Loch Internationals

Spring International
Lough Owel, Ireland
30th May 2014

The Edinburgh Mortgage Co
Tel 0131 660 9738

RGMC Properties Ltd
Tel 01224 810375

Scottish Team sponsored by
Fishers, Lake of Menteith, WFFC 2009
C.E.F., Newey & Eyre, RGMC Properties Ltd, Sig Roofing, Magnet Trade,
Alba Glass & Glazing, The Edinburgh Mortgage Company Ltd,
7plus7 Construction, Glencorse Rsv, Jewson, Water-Weights, Vencomatic Group and MGM Timber Scotland Ltd

Spring International

England out thought and out fished Ireland, Wales and Scotland to run away with the Spring International and have a clean sweep of the trophies.

England were first to the scales and right from the outset it was clear that they would be the winners. With 59 trout for 75lb 11oz they were 27 fish ahead of Ireland who secured second place with 32 trout for 41lb 9.4oz. Wales were third with 33 trout for 41lb 2.2oz and Scotland were fourth with 29 trout for 37lb 7oz.

Top rod and winner of the Brown Bowl was England's Phil Longstaff with 10 trout for 11lb 12.8oz. English team members Tony Curtis and Gary Morris were second and third with 9 fish and 5 fish respectively and their Joel Beeney was fifth with 7 fish. Eleven of of the English team finished in the top 20.

Alan Brock won the Silver Salver as the top Scottish rod with 7 trout for 7lb 14.4oz. Alan finished fourth overall. Top rod for Wales was Alan Banwell with 5 trout for 7lb 7.2oz and top rod for Ireland was Robert Reilly with 5 trout for 7lb 1.4oz.

The heaviest fish was taken by James Atkinson of England and went to the scales at 3lb 3oz.

photo: England's Paul Longstaff receiving
the Brown Bowl from IFFA President Peter Godfrey

Silver Salver
Scotland's Top Rod

Alan Brock, on his debut for Scotland, took 7 fish for 7lb 14.4oz and won the Silver Salver.

Alan was drawn with England's Clive Perkins and his day started well when he won the toss. Following a discussion on the areas that they wanted to try they both agreed to start at the deeper water off of the Cornfield. Alan set up with a sooty olive dabbler, green tagged kate and a mini humi on a three sweep line. They were first to their area but were soon joined there by about 12 other boats.

Starting off with fast pulls and then mixing it up a bit produced Alan's first fish which was a keeper. The minimum size had been set at 30cm with a three fish kill and then on to catch and release. Shortly after his first fish Alan covered a rising fish and number two was in the bag. They went back to repeat the drift and this time Alan counted down before starting to retrieve and picked up trout three and four. There was a light breeze and the two drifts had taken them to about 12.30pm.

photo: Alan Brock receiving the salver
from IFFA President Peter Godfrey

Clive picked up one fish in the first two drifts. From the Cornfields they moved over to Studarra Island where Clive picked up a fish. Alan caught one and had a couple of pulls near the Island before they moved on to the Church Island area where they joined another half dozen boats already there. Alan took a fish on the first drift there and Clive caught one on the second drift.

They pulled further back from the other boats and Alan picked up his last fish about 5.30pm


Scotlands Returns
( the full result is on www.iffa.net)

Position		Fish	lbs	ozs

4th	Alan Brock	7	7	14.4
11th	Kevin McCabe	5	6	2.0
23rd	Tom Burnett	2	3	6.4
27th	Shane Kelly	2	3	4
30th eq	Mick Tait	2	2	8.0
32nd	Brian Kennedy	2	2	7.8
33rd	Campbell Morgan	2	2	6.8
37th	David McAllister	2	2	2.6
39th	Colin Macdonald	1	1	12.2
44th eq	Andrew Glasgow	1	1	6.6
48th	Kenny Miller	1	1	5.0
49th	Ken Oliver	1	1	0.0
51st eq	Jim Youngman	0	0	0

Back Row: Peter Godfrey(IFFA President) Mick Tait Campbell Morgan Alan Brock Allan Smith Tom Burnett Jim Youngman Shane Kelly Ken Oliver
Front Row: George MacKenzie (International Secretary) Stan Headley (Manager) Kenny Miller (Captain) Brian Kennedy Andrew Glasgow Kevin McCabe Colin Macdonald David McAllister Ian Campbell (IFFA Secretary)