Petty Officer Warren "Mal" Malcolm wins the Scottish Open

Winner of 2009 & now 2010 its the first time a major event in Scotland has been won back to back.

Fourteen anglers took to the waters of Lake of Menteith on Wednesday 14th July, for the 2010 Scottish Fly Fishing Open.

Despite some unkind weather in the morning there was the odd good break in the weather in the afternoon and a number of fish were showing in the lake's Gateside Bay tight along the line of buoys.

Cdr Bill Jones was the first to take advantage of some rising fish in the morning and had 3 rainbow trout within the first 2 hours. It wasn't long before the other anglers followed his example catching trout, with PO "Mal" Malcolm bagging up with his limit by earlier afternoon. Most of the trout were taking fly patterns size 12 hooks like cormorant, snatchers, bibio, black hoppers and boobies fished as a washing line method.

All in all 18 trout were caught with a catch weight of 32lb 2ozs - averaging 1lb 8ozs each fish.

The prestigious award for the Scottish Fly Fishing Open 2010 Champion was PO Malcolm being presented with the trophy by HMS Caledonia's Commander David Pickthall CEng Royal Navy.

PO Malcolm caught 5 rainbow trout weighing 9lb 2ozs, plus a 5lb bonus for catching and releasing a further 5 trout (1lb bonus for every trout).

Best fish of the day went to Cdr Jones with a 2lb 5oz rainbow trout.

PO Malcolm said " It was a great day out and more memorable for me because it was back to back major wins for the first time in Royal Navy History of this event. I would like to thank Glasgow Angling Centre for donating the prizes. Special thanks also go to the staff at Lake of Menteith for their hospitality especially Quinn. I would personally like to thank my Dad for getting me into angling in 1977 and would like to dedicate this memorable moment to him.

Petty Officer Malcolm is teaching and demonstrating Fly Casting and Deep Sea Fishing at Neptune Sportsdrome and HMS Caledonia Gym, all are welcome to come along. Both HMS Caledonia and HMNB Clyde have fly fishing facilities for 10 anglers with equipment supplied and Deep Sea Fishing facilities for 8 anglers with equipment supplied.

Next Fly Fishing outing will be after summer leave:-

01/09/10 BOAT ONLY LAKE OF MENTEITH ABERFOYLE, STIRLING spaces for 20 anglers.

Next Deep Sea outing will be:-

27/10/10 6 spaces available Loch Etive, Taynuilt, Argyll and Bute this is in October because July, August & September are fully booked.

To get involved in the next outing, or for more details on Angling, get in touch with PO Malcolm