Final results of the BFCC competition at The Game Fair 2024

Tracy Thomas of the BFCC with Nick Moore

A special shout-out to winning junior Jack Gow, who previously won at The Scottish Game Fair a few weeks ago, and then travelled down from his home in Inverness to compete at The Game Fair.

Casters had to compete in all three events and could qualify on any of the three days of the show.

The classes were:

• Trout accuracy (#5 weight line) single-handed event against four targets (using the World Championship rules)
• Trout distance (#5 weight line) single-handed event
• Salmon Overhead distance (S55g shooting head line) double-handed event

Overall Championship Results 28 July 2024

The winner and top runners-up are shown below with the percentage scoring system that was applied to determine the overall best caster across the three events and in each category – Male, Female, Junior (under 18). The distance results are in metres and accuracy in points scored.

Four men contested the Sunday Final including the winner and top two runners-up from the Blenheim Game Fair Championship, plus one of the runners-up from the Scottish Game Fair (unfortunately the Scottish winner could not be present). The final was conducted in very difficult casting conditions that were either glassy flat calms, headwinds or slight side winds blowing into the caster’s rod arm. As such, the random draw for casting order was all important in determining how lucky individuals were with the conditions.

Despite the conditions, the final was hard fought with three different casters winning the three disciplines.

Nick Moore won the Trout distance, James Evans won the accuracy and Steve Parkes won the Salmon distance with his last cast. Once all the results were converted into percentages Nick Moore emerged as the overall winner with a 5% margin over Steve in the runners-up position.

Well done to Nick and to all those who competed over the course of the two Game Fairs.

This was the first BFCC run fly casting competition at The Game Fair.