Left to right:
Wilbur Leoviriyakit, Johnny Moesel, Bethany Keeler, Noah Dev, Kenzie Reynolds, Hannah Dev, Will Morris, Lucy Clarke, Joe Camsell, Alfie Aitchison, Tom Moesel, Lewis Jackson-Herdman
CONDITIONS
WERE BRIGHT
and hot on Sunday, 11 August for the 12 finalists in the 2024
Junior and Youth Troutmasters competition. A nagging breeze also made the fishing tricky, and it was no surprise after four hours’ intense concentration that two of the best prepared and experienced rods had triumphed.
In all, 16 trout were caught with just as many hooked and lost, but fishing on Coe Cragg Lake, the Junior winner was Wilbur Leoviriyakit, 13, a longstanding Troutmasters competitor who first qualified for the final when he was only five years old. He and his father had undertaken a seven-hour drive from Bristol the previous week to practise at Thrunton and then received regular updates on fishing conditions from local rods.