Duration: 12 - 4pm
Tide:low about 3
Weather: surprisingly dry, light SE, occasional bright spell
Bait: frozen mack, fresh lug, live sandeel!
Rigs: 2,3 hook flappers for me
Results: flounder and turbot, for me others caught dogfish and ray aswell
Catch and Release:: Yes
Report: started the day with a bit of a head on me after watching ireland draw with germany over a few beers.
the forecast had promised relatively dry conditions - it rained continuously for the best part of an hour on the way to the venue, the odd downpour, down to 20 miles an hour at one stage hoping to stay on the road etc.! - i was not hopeful at all for the day
how wrong i was - a glorious afternoon looking at the wonderful scenery about us.
arrived at the venue and a crowd was already gathered at 11 sharp
had a bite to eat and started unpacking jp arrived and complained about his lug being worse for wear - but then the draw was made and was much happier down in the low draw with bradan beside him
i was pitched at 11 in the middle roughly and ready to scratch like hell
got off to a good start with a fish on first cast - turbot but not counting
then a flounder on my second - again not counting!
third cast - another fish a flounder just over 21cm i was off the mark
then it went quiet
after the initial flurry a few strolls were made and a bit of chat was had
most people had a few fish in the first hour or so and all seemed quiet up our end
then about mid way had another tap - a double - both flounder and counters low 20s
word at this stage was filtering that jp was into double figures and bradan was close by
stevecrow had his usual good start and then nothing - midget had been by to tell me about his 6 counters - so glad he wasnt in the senior comp - it was really annoying him :lol:
there was talk of a golden grey being hooked but lost
anyway kept going had another distinctive tap another turbot - this time 18cm :x very annoying
about the 3 hour mark - had another good tap and finally a counting turbot 22cm - started to gather notions of third place in my head if i could get another decent counter or a double shot
steve was over talking to me and i saw something silver at my feet - a suicidal sandeel had decided to surface - stuck him on but it got no interest
at this stage i noticed a dog coming in at the end of the beach, and about 20mins after a ray - things had died up for me and i figured that was the third place long gone
have to say i enjoyed my day and had a good buzz out of it especially listening to steve from dublin - pegged to my left - its hard to get the scobe out of some lads :lol:
as far as i can remember this is how it finished
Jp 1st place, Norbert ? 2nd place and Kevin C for seniors
1st place 12 fish, 2nd place 4 fish(4 different species), 3rd place 11 fish (just looks so funny :wink:)
juniors 1st Alex D, 2nd Danny F and 3rd Colm H.
This was the second leg the GBSAC Master Angler series.
This was also the qualifiers for the U16 and U21 Connaught teams
the others im sure will post their own thoughts
