Great Events at GGACC this Month:
Free Casting Lessons: 07/12, 9:30 am to 12:00 pm at the GGACC Angler's Ponds- RSVP
Free Beginning Fly Tying class: 07/19, 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm- RSVP
Pasta Feed, Meatloaf Dinner, and Spey Equipment Auction: 07/19, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm -- (see auction items)- RSVP
ACA Casting Tournament: 07/20, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm- Dry Fly, #5 Combo, 5/8 oz, Angler's Fly- RSVP
We'll see you at the club!
Announcing: The Greater Cincinnati Open Tournament
Distance Events July 12th: will be held at Waycross Elementary School at 825 Waycross Road on Saturday morning at 8:30.
Please contact Andy Statt for distance details- (513)-899-2668.
Accuracy Events July 13th: will be held at The Cincinnati Casting Club 2200 Pinney Lane.
The Cincinnati Casting Club is located off US 127, approximately 3 miles north of Mt Healthy in Turner Park, 2200 Pinney Lane, New Burlington, Ohio.
Program of Events, Directions, Hotels
Canadian Casting Championships Results!
Toronto Ontario, Canada- On behalf of your hosts The Toronto Sportsmen’s Ass’n and Westhill Anglers & Casting. I would like to thank everyone for coming and enjoying our great weather and fine hospitality.
We had a good turn out for our Canadian Championships this year. We appreciate our American friends who came north to cast. Special thanks to all who judged, scored and tabulated things for us.
We hope everyone enjoyed themselves.
Peter Edwards.
Executive Director
Toronto Sportsmen's Association
| Grand All Around Position Placing- June 14-15th. | |||
| . | Accuracy | Distance | Total |
| Harvey Beck | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| Charles Phillips | 9 | 13 | 22 |
| Dick Fujita | 18 | 16 | 34 |
Cancelled: Ohio State Casting Tournament
2008 National Casting Championships Registration Form HERE!
First 100 Registrants Receive a Commemorative Tackle Bag! This is our 100th National!
The opening ceremony, annual meeting will be held at the GGACC clubhouse and the banquet will be the nearby Irish Cultural Center on Sloat Blvd and the Great Highway. Hotel info here. For further questions contact Alice Gillibert. Dates and Schedule
2008 Kentucky Open- Harvey Beck Wins Grand All-Around
Lexington, KY- This annual event is run by the Blue Grass Sportsmen's League's Casting Division and was held last weekend; May 17 & 18th. Harvey Beck of Toronto, took all the All Arounds, except "Fly Accuracy Champion" which was won by Richard Siciliano of Buffalo, NY. Harvey had some impressive distance scores in Men's.
During the distance events, there was some helpful wind, but the trade-off was a terrible cross wind. On Sunday, swirling winds caused terrible scores.
John Seroczynski of Valparaiso, IN, won the "Bill Burke Cup" as the "Senior" casting the top 5/8oz. score during the regular event. The cup was started in 2002 in appreciation for Bill Burke's work for BGSL. It is a perpetual trophy. In Bill's email today: "I am so thankful that it is not a memorial trophy."
Past winners are:
Bill Peters (2007)
Ed Lanser (2006)
Zack Willson (2005)
Bill Burke (2004)
Zack Willson (2003)
Scores
2008 Jimmy Green International Spey-O-Rama Results
Men's Division 1st Place: Simon Hsieh and Women's Division 1st Place: Takako Inoue
GGACC- 
Casters came from all over the globe: Norway, England, Scotland, Japan, Canada, Pacific Northwest and California to participate in this fun, educational and competitive event. This year's entertainment featured Luau dancers! During Saturday's qualifying round there were swirling winds around 20mph, with gusts up to 40 MPH. Despite the challenging conditions, the casters performed very well.
There were 11 Men's Finalists and 5 Women's Finalists. Simon Hsieh had the Men's long cast of 153' and the winning total score of 560 and Takako Inoue had a total score of 408 and made the longest Women's cast of 106'. The Division winners also earned the ACA Jimmy Green Memorial Award, (that Simon holds above his head at left). The second and third Place Mens's casters were Doug Duncan with 540 and Simon Gawesworth with 538 (505). He tied with Brian Stystal, but won second place by one foot with his second best casts total! In the Women's Division, Donna Sullivan took second place with 374 and Olga Koran had 350.
None of the three Women finalists are taller than 5'2", but they made seven casts greater than 100-feet! At the 2007 SOR, Amy Hazel made the first ever 100-foot Spey-O-Rama Women's cast.
According to Bob Pauli, "Simon Hsieh faced a mini-crisis during his championship round, when the fly departed his leader during the two minute warm up period allocated to all contestents prior to the six minutes allowed for scoring casts. Without a fly, a legal cast cannot be made, and time continues to run.
Obtaining another fly [all are supplied by the GGACC competition committee] and attaching it to his leader occupied the remaining 1.5 minutes of the warm up period and precious seconds of his 6-minute scoring period which immediately follows warm up." With equipment repaired, no warmup and a shortened scoring time, Simon pushed ahead. His first two or three casts for score were below his normal performance level, showing the unexpected delay has rattled him. But he pushed his anxiety into the background, regained concentration and became SOR 2008 champion."
This year, there were no Skagit casters competing. It is our understanding that the hot set-ups were 75-85' heads with B&W Powerlite, CND and Nextcast rods. Follow this exciting event HERE and make your plans early for next year.
New Ground Rule at 100th National for Distance Events- The“V” Court
By approval of the Executive Committee, a new “V” shaped court ground rule will be used at the San Francisco 100th National Championship. The “V” court allows tournament organizers the ability to utilize smaller fields, allowing courts to be situated closer together. Distinct sidelines provide for a greater degree of safety for spectators and casters alike. The sidelines define the field such that casters and spectators may be allowed closer viewing by standing outside the sidelines. The smaller “V” court design significantly speeds up pegging and measuring of casts, thus speeding up the total time needed to run an event.
The court size is 50 meters wide at 100 meters out (down field), approximately creating a 30 degree “V” wedge. Court direction will be established directly with the wind just prior to initiating the event. Once set it will remain the same for the entire event. This plays into the strategy of casters to make a stronger first effort with the wind direction in the first round, hedging their concern for subsequent casts should the wind shift to an out of bounds direction. While a V shaped court has been an option under current rules, many casters are unfamiliar with it making this announcement a “heads up“ for them. The “V” court were utilized during the Kentucky Open, May, 17 & 18, 2008.