Duration: 13:00 to 18:00
Tide: Dropping
Weather: Alright
Bait: All sorts
Rigs: Mainly flappers
Results:
The first SAI comp of the year took place on courtown North beach on Sat morning, a smaller than usuall turnout including some new faces Eeler and Gar faced a massive swell and dirty brown Sea that looked very promising. It started off fairly slow although I was lucky to get 4 fish in the fisrt hour while everyone else was struggling unfortunatley it wasn't to last as soon everyone was finding the fish mainly flounder's with a few rockling and dabs making an apperance. Rauri (Eeler) seemed to be picking up at least one flounder a cast and was filling up his card nicely while Jp not long back from a golfing holiday in south africa was picking off a few fish too. As It got dark the fishing improved for some lads but not for me to make maters worse I reeled in a trace I lost with 3 counting fish
. Al and his mate gar where picking up some fish on the high pegs and Rauri was still flying Don had a few fish in and Dave Costello had managed a Cod of 38cm only pipped by JP's 39cm for the pools. At the end Gordy had a double flounder I had nothing and Kstaff had a double too but It was too little to late, Rauri had won in his first match with SAI and a Big welldone to him JP was second and Gar was third also his first SAI comp welldone. The highlight of the day was watching Kstaff coming to grips with a fixed spool 
and the chipper on the way home.Full results:
Ruairi Coleman 12 330 302 JP Molloy 12 307 293 10 Garreth Flynn 11 258 284 7 Donal O'Neill 9 251 275 8 Al McGrane 9 184 266 5 Keith Murphy 6 182 257 1 David Costello 6 150 248 6 Keith Stafford 5 111 239 4 Gordon Hardman 4 98 2210 13 John Diamond 3 88 21
I had two counters and two undersize coming up to the last 40 mins and managed to pull out 5 fish with 4 x 10 minute casts towards the end..Jammy 
