Summer Series triumph for Jimmy Green after stumble on Dunbar rocks

Summer Series winner Jimmy Green shows off his haul.

Jimmy Green won the eight-match Summer Series in his first season with the Bass Rock Shore Angling League, but the victory almost didn't happen for the experienced angler.

The Musselburgh-based fishermen trailed series leader James Ogilvie by two points going into the final heat and needed a win on the night, but he stumbled walking to his chosen mark on the rocks at The Battery behind the castle at Dunbar Harbour.

The tip of his favourite 15-foot beach caster rod lodged between two rocks. He managed to free it, however, the tip shattered on his first cast.

Dejected, he walked round to his nearest challenger for the title, James Ogilvie, who is also one of the match organisers, to say what had happened and that he might have to go home if the macro rod he had in the car didn't work for him.

Alan Brown presents the cup to Jimmy Green after his Summer Series triumph.

The 58-year-old spent the next 30 minutes scrambling around in his car boot for tackle, including small weights, to set up the rig and decided to give it a go. Ten minutes later he hooked into a fish and five more came during the three-hour match.

Green totalled three cod, two rockling and a 3.5lb ballan wrasse and it was the big fish which caused him real trouble as the small rod was really bent as he struggled to land the fish over the rocks.

Sportingly, a rival actually climbed down to grab the fish and brought it back to the angler to remove the hook.