Massive congrats to Martin Howlin on winning the MA 2011, after years of accumulating hideous Silver medals at this event Mr Howlin now has his MA title and is the proud captain of Team Ireland 2012.
Runner up was John o Brien , Cracking result for 2 of Irelands Top Rods...
Big well done to Peter Atkins , Mike Curtain and the Connaught Council for putting in the much needed effort that produced one of the best Connaught MA's in a long long time !
Roll on the Fish- Offs...
Dave.
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Congrats Martin great result and John too. Well done to the organizers and the stewards on a well run weekend all the venues produced fish, I enjoyed it
well done to the lads who got plates, medals or made the fish offs!!!! BIG well done to mullaghmore SAC. I was told 6 months ago that they werent naming venues cos "they were gonna put us onto fish"! Very impressed! Plenty of walking but plenty of fish. Connaught is definately not the black sheep of the shore angling scene as I was advised fer the past 9 months!!!
2011. codling, schoolie bass (4!), smoothie( 1 pup!), tb ray, whiting, coalie, pollack, flounder, dab, plaice (small),wrasse, grey gurnard,lsd, huss, goby, cuckoo wrasse,pout,3 bearded rockling and 5 bearded rockling. red & tub gurnard, spurs and conger afloat. black bream and painted ray in jersey.(on my honeymoon!)
2012. codling,coalie,whiting,flounder,3 bearded rockling,five bearded rockling, dab,wrasse,conger,lsd,pollack,s.s sea scorpion,t.b ray,tub gurnard, corkwing wrasse,plaice,huss,smoothhound,cuckoo wrasse
Well done to Martin, great achievement in what were albeit tough conditions, a good spread of venues that all threw up fish in numbers with very few blanks. Massive well done to all involved in Connacht who put in a massive amount of work in organising this comp. Hats off boys in what were very difficult conditions. Well done also to JD on a strong showing throughout on his debut at the masters.
Fluff chucking is the new black..... Rampant Wreckfish is a fly angler in denial
Well done to the organisers for making the plan work.
A bit of driving to be done but when you are put on fish you have nothing to complain about.
The GPS numbers were spot on and took the stress out of the drive to each venue
1 edit well done to Martin an excellent return of fish not much time to breath in between casts
Specimen Fish 2024: Shore Rockling (3) 36cm, 34cm, 31cm; Thick Lipped Mullet (2) 58cm, 57cm; Smooth Hound (1) 109cm; Sting Ray (1)125cm; Ballan Wrasse (1) 48cm ; Corkwing Wrasse (1) 24.8cm. Golden Grey Mullet (2) 43cm, 1.8lb; 40.6cm, 1.55lb;
Total species boat/shore: 45
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Specimen Fish 2025: To date: 6.
Flounder 46cm; Spurdog 120cm; Stingray 91cm; Smooth Hound 114cm; 103.5cm; 104cm