autumn 2019

Loch Internationals

Autumn International

Lake of Menteith, Scotland

20th September 2019

Scotland Team sponsored by

7plus7 Construction

Lake of Menteith

Fishers

Angus Angling

The Cornerstone, Hoist and Access Services Ltd, M McKenzie Skip Hire,

Jewson, Magnet Trade, Avance Construction and St Andrews Timber & Building Supplies.

Autumn International - Lake of Menteith - 20th September

Ireland netted 109 fish in the Autumn Internatonal at the Lake of Menteith to run out convincing winners. Wales were 5 fish behind in second with 104 with Scotland taking third with 94 and England in fourth with 92.

It was a hard day at the Lake with the competitors having to combat a flat calm and a coudless sky. Top individual rod and winner of the Brown Bowl was Arden Pollock of Ireland with 15 trout for 32lbs 7ozs. This was Arden's second Brown Bowl having been the joint winner in 2008. Derek Hessett of Scotland was second with 14 trout for 31lbs 11.5ozs. Mike Williams of Wales was third with 14 trout for 28lbs 7.3ozs and Mark Stephen of Scotland was fourth with 11 trout for 26lbs 2.2ozs.

The heaviest fish of the day was caught by Neill Barrett of Scotland and went to the scales at 4lbs 9.4ozs

Arden Pollock receiving the Brown Bowl from IFFA President George Mackenzie

Derek Hesset receiving the Silver Salver from IFFA President George Mackenzie

Neill Barrett receiving the heaviest fish trophy

Best Boatman - Scott Robertson

Derek Hessett weighing-in

Derek Hessett

Second overall and Scotland's top rod

I was drawn with Mike Lightfoot of England and he agreed to give me the engine. I started with a buzzer tip line, fab and cormorants. We started our day at the reeds in front of the hotel where we both had offers. I got smashed and didn’t manage to boat any fish there. From Hotel Bay we went to Gateside to find my team mates and to see if it was better there. Things were very slow and I soon found out that the Lake was fishing hard as a result of the bright sun and flat calm.

We then moved to Sam’s point as I seen fish getting caught there. I dropped a few fish and Mike landed one.

At 1 o’clock I had no fish in the boat and decided to go back to the reeds in front of the hotel. There were no boats at the reeds but I was positive the fish would still be there. I changed to a Rio 6ft Tip and stuck with the same cast. I had 4 fish in four casts. Between 1.15pm and 6pm I had 14 and mike landed another 1.

Top Row: George Mackenzie (IFFA President) Graeme Lynch Jim Twaddle Mike Willis Derek Pozzi David Wales Sean McCaffrey Allan Smith Ian Campbell (IFFA Secretary)

Seated: Derek Keenan (manager) Neill Barrett Scott Aitken Mark Stephen (captain) Allan McLachlan Campbell Cree Derek Hessett Andy Dunn

Autumn International 20th September 2019 - Lake of Menteith (Full result can be viewed at www.iffa.net)
		Fish	Lbs	Ozs
1st	Ireland	109	251	2.8
2nd	Wales	104	242	14.1
3rd	Scotland	94	229	1.1
4th	England	92	221	9.5

Scottish Team Individual Results (The full result can be viewed at www.iffa.net)
pos		club	Fish	Lbs	ozs
2nd	Derek Hessett	Gateside Flycasters	14	31	11.5
4th	Mark Stephen (captain)	Stewarton AC	11	26	2.2
19th	David Wales	Select FF	8	19	9.2
20th	Andy Dunn	Change FF AC	8	19	6.9
21st	Derek Pozzi	Thalassa AC	8	19	6.5
29th	Neill Barrett	Gilmerton FFC	6	16	13.4
30th	Mike Willis	Bridge of Allan 76 AC	7	16	5.7
34th	Graeme Lynch	Team Flybox	6	15	1.8
37th	Allan Mclachlan	Costa Ecosse	5	13	15.2
41st	Sean McCaffrey	North Shetland FF	6	13	12.3
43rd	Campbell Cree	Rainbow Warriors AC	6	13	8.7
46th	Scott Aitken	Tartan Tyers FF	5	12	5.1
54th	Jim Twaddle	Caurnie AC	2	5	8.3
55th	Allan Smith	Kinross AC	2	5	6.3