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2009 World Fly Fishing Championships Open in Scotland

World Fly Fishing Championships Include Teams from 27 Countries

By Brian Milne, About.com

Lance Egan and World Fly Fishing Championships

Lance Egan is one of the Americans competing in the World Fly Fishing Championships.

Photo courtesy Lance Egan
The World Fly Fishing Championships are under way this week in Scotland for the first time, with competitors from 27 countries fishing for brown trout and grayling on the country’s "lochs and rivers."

The U.S. team is made up of Walter Ungermann (team manager), Josh Stephens (team captain), George Daniel, Lance Egan, Pete Erickson, Anthony Naranja, Mike Sexton, Devin Olsen (alternate) and coaches Vladi Trzebunia and Jerry Arnold.

They will be fishing Loch Leven, Loch Awe, the Carron Valley, the Lake of Menteith and the River Tay.

The event also includes teams from Japan, Australia, USA, Sweden, Canada, Italy and Spain among others.

The 2008 championships were held in New Zealand, with the American fly fishing team finishing eighth overall. Czech Republic won the team title, followed by host New Zealand and France.

Egan, Stephens, Sexton and Daniel were also part of the U.S. squad in 2008.

You can read about what it was like to fish in last year’s world championships in About.com’s exclusive interview with Egan, a Lehi, Utah, resident who finished second among the individual American anglers and 24th overall.

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