{"id":476,"date":"2009-06-11T10:39:29","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T09:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bxttlines.wordpress.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2009-06-11T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T09:39:29","slug":"scots-rally-for-a-world-championship-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/06\/11\/scots-rally-for-a-world-championship-bronze\/","title":{"rendered":"Scots rally for a World Championship bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-477\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iainbarrflyfishing.co.uk\/index.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-477\" title=\"Ian_Barr_WFFCGold_300px\" src=\"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ian_barr_wffcgold_300px.jpg\" alt=\"Ian Barr (England), world champion 2009\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Barr (England), world champion 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SCOTLAND finished among the medal winners for the first time at the World Fly Fishing Championships yesterday after an amazing final day team recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Hosting the \u2018blue riband\u2019 event, the Scottish team under manager George Mackenzie rallied to climb from 9th place on Tuesday to take the bronze medal behind England and France at the top of the\u00a0 scoreboard.<\/p>\n<p>Newton Stewart\u2019s Calum Crosbie took 5th spot in the individual medal table. England\u2019s Ian Barr lifted the gold and with it the title of the world\u2019s top trout angler.<\/p>\n<p>Loch Leven and Loch Awe again provided poor returns \u2013 a total of just 12 and 24 fish respectively for 96 rods wielded by some of the world\u2019s best fly fishers \u2013 posing questions over their reputation as world-class trout venues.<\/p>\n<p>But it was the Scottish team\u2019s experience of these stillwaters which was to be the decisive factor in helping to produce a medal winning position.\u00a0 While the majority of competitors blanked at the two venues, David Chalmers had three from Loch Leven, while on Loch Awe Donald Forbes was the top rod in Session 1\u00a0 with two and Calum Crosbie had one in Session 2.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-480\" style=\"width: 161px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/forbes_scotwffc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-480\" title=\"Forbes_ScotWFFC\" src=\"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/forbes_scotwffc.png?w=230\" alt=\"Donald Forbes: blistering day\" width=\"161\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/forbes_scotwffc.png 314w, https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/forbes_scotwffc-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Forbes: blistering day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Glasgow&#8217;s Forbes had a blistering day, also heading the catch returns in the afternoon session on Lake of Menteith with five fish.<\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s Ian Barr, one of the UK\u2019s most successful competition fly fishers added to his existing haul of competition medals with two golds, in the team and individual awards<\/p>\n<p>Capped 24 times for his country, the Peterborough angler already has two European individual medals and several world team medals to his credit and has consistently proved his form in UK and international matches.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"WFFC results, opens in new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldflyfishingchampionships2009.com\/downloadscript.php?file=10thJune.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Full Team Results<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"WFFC venue performance, opens in new window\" href=\"http:\/\/bxttlines.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/11\/how-scotlands-world-class-trout-venues-performed\/\" target=\"_blank\">How the five venues performed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTLAND finished among the medal winners for the first time at the World Fly Fishing Championships yesterday after an amazing final day team recovery. Hosting the \u2018blue riband\u2019 event, the Scottish team under manager George Mackenzie rallied to climb from 9th place on Tuesday to take the bronze medal behind England and France at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}