Sea Angling Ireland SAC

People:JD, Jay, Al, JP, Sean, Kevin Barber, Donal D

Duration:Oct 20th, 16:30-21:30

Tide: Rising

Weather:Not too unpleasant, cloudy later, southerlies

Bait: Crab, Mac, Sandeel Lug

Rigs: Clip downs and flappers

Results:

Place	Peg	Name	Fish Pts.	Points	Master Pts.
1	2	Sean Ivory	6	240	30
2	6	JP Molloy	5	204	29
3	1	Jay Fowler	2	93	28
4	4	Al McGrane	2	59	27
5	5	Donal Domeney	1	37	26
6	7	John Diamond	1	34	25
7	8	Kevin Barber	1	5	24

Biggest Round: Sean Ivory Painted Ray 59cm
Biggest Flat: Donal Domeney Flounder 32cm

Report: Seven of us made our way to Youghal, a few more that had hoped to make it had family commitments.

Cod and ray were the hoped for species, but they didn’t turn up in the hoped for numbers. I had to be happy with one flounder.  .

Well done to Sean for a well deserved win, and also for a nice Painted Ray. He also prevented JP from registering a perfect score for the season.

Jay was delighted with his Painted Ray, and also well done on coming 3rd in this competition.

Also well done to Sean for his win down in Gurteen.

This left the final table as follows

We hope to have the schedule for next year up soon, and will also open soon for membership for 2013.

Many thanks again to Henry’s Tackle for sponsoring the club

Apologies for late report on this.

People: JD,JP,Gordy,David,Donal,Don,Keith Murphy,Ian,Gareth

Duration: 8pm-1am

Tide: None to speak of (Courtown Neap). JP reported a good flow at range!

Weather: Pleasant enough, north-westerly

Bait: Crab, also sand eels, lug , rag etc

Rigs: Clip downs and flappers

Results:
Hounds, Dogs, Flounder, Dabs, Gurnard, Plaice, Whiting

Place	Peg	Name 		Fish	Total	Ma Points

1	9	JP Molloy	23	966	30
2	1	Gordon Hardman	11	436	29
3	10	Keith Murphy	10	425	28
4	6	John Diamond	11	405	27
5	11	Gareth Flynn	9	398	26
6	2	Donal O'Neill	10	364	25
7	3	Ian Bonney	8	297	24
8	7	Donal Domeney	8	290	23
9	4	David Costello	6	268	22

Pools
Biggest Animal : Keith Murphy – Hound 95cm
Biggest Round : Gareth Flynn – Whiting 21cm
Biggest Flat : Gordon Hardman – Flounder 26cm

Report:
The plan was to pick a Wexford Beach that had been showing hounds recently, and reports around Ballyhealy had not been great. Given that some members in Dublin had work on Saturday, we decided to meet up in Courtown and fish a local beach. There was one wee problem – getting fresh crab with the neap tides. In the end I made do with frozen, as did most of the rest of the lads. Arriving in Courtown, I decided to check the end of the beach near the river and forest. Plenty of beach to fish with, and having discussed it with Donal and JP we decided that was where we fish.

Peg draw completed, we headed off to the beach. I baited up a clipdown with two crab and a sand eel, and when Donal gave the whistle out it went.

It wasn’t long before some of the lads had picked up hounds, with Ian, Dave and JP(!!) getting their first hounds ever.

Nothing for me, not even a rattle. I saw Ian getting a pup from close in, so I tried a flapper with 2 ragworm and a crab close in for one of them. It didn’t work..

Darkness came and with that the dogs. They were quite close in too. I gradually got into some fish, getting a small hound and a few whiting too. However it was obvious that JP was running away with it and when the shout came for lines up he had twice as many fish as anyone else. Second place was close, with just one fish between the next four. In the end, well done to Gordy, who is having a good run lately.

Thanks again to Henry’s Tackle, who are sponsoring all our competitions.