The Bass Rock Shore Angling League is back in business this week, weather permitting, with postponed Round Eight now scheduled for East Lothian on Wednesday, January 17.
It’s a North Berwick Rover and registration is at the harbour between 6pm and 6.30pm. Fishing is from 7pm to 10pm and scales close at 10.20pm.
James Ogilvie, secretary, said that only sizable fish should be brought to the scales and there is the usual £10 entry fee and 100 per cent pay out for heaviest bag and heaviest fish.
High water is 7.09pm.
Elsewhere, Midlothian-based Mike Kyle was third in Round 3 of Mike and Chris’s Winter Heaviest Cod League at the weekend with a bag of over 8lb. Chris Horn from Kirkcaldy, one of the organisers, was second with a bag of over 8lb 8oz and the winner was Willie Kennedy from Ayr with 9lb 2oz.
Gary Rezin from Aberdeen landed the heaviest fish, a specimen of 4lb 6oz on Usan beach, and the boundaries were Carnoustie to Ferryden Lighthouse.
Kyle has a busy weekend as he won the first leg of the Edinburgh New Year Shore Angling League with 20 fish with Steve Potts (Tyneside) second with 17 fish and Stevie Souter (Edinburgh) third with 14 fish.
All were caught at Newhaven and a total of 28 anglers caught a total of 231 fish in the three hours of the competition sponsored by The Edinburgh Angling Centre, The Fishing Megastore and Cox and Rawle.
Kyle and Alan Haggon, incidentally, tied the longest fish, 30cm.
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