Loch Ryan Sea Angling Association. L.S.A.A

Once again I’m looking out of the window at the horizontal rain and the trees bent with gale force Westerly's, it must be ****ing summer.

We have had a hard time lately with an algae bloom wiping out the worm beds in the Loch and the weather changing by the minute which is never productive particularly on the West shore which is always best in the summer after four or five days of calm conditions.

Despite these setbacks there are still plenty of fish about particularly Bass which seem to be everywhere in Luce Bay at the moment.

The species hunt last weekend was as usual hard work but very enjoyable and Badger Boy was rewarded with a win after a lot of effort.

It was good to see him get a first because it included the luckiest Flounder ever seen and he managed to stay awake for the majority of the competition. We might have to stop calling him half man half mattress.

The total cash raised from the species hunt, as I write is £140 hopefully this will increase with more donations. All entry fees and winners money along with donations will be given to the palliative care unit in Stranraer where Big Jock, a much missed Lochryan member was cared for before he passed away in 2007.

Thirty three hours of running around Wigtownshire is tough but we managed to carry on with the help of coffee, red bull and pot noodles(you have got to be really hungry to enjoy one but at 2 am they are strangely nice).

The Lochryan Open is next month and hopefully will be well attended as usual. Match venues will be decided during the week before as normal so as to get the most productive areas for both days.

The post “Open” drink is always something to look forward to and a weekend of hardly any sleep for the organisers often results in some staggering about.

Previous years have seen an anonymous committee member selling a car that didn’t belong to him and another putting a hole in the pub ceiling while demonstrating the pendulum cast with a pool cue.

The jolly boys’ trip to the Shannon is imminent and hopefully it will be as good as the 2007 trip when we had some cracking Thornys to just under 15lb. We are joined by the Welsh Wizard this time along with the usual suspects but unfortunately not Kev as he is about to be a daddy again.

I will sign off now as I need to make even more rigs (Kev reckons I’m a bit O.C.D about bait and rigs), all the best Davy.