SAI MA comp1 courtown 8/01/11

People: JD, Kstaff, Gordy, Al, Eeler, Rampent, Keith, Gar, Dave C, Don Sorry if I forgot anyone.

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

It was a tough day fishing, especially being pegged beside Don, JP, and Gar who where all picking up fish regularly 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

Congrats again to the lads (even JP) especially the newcomers

nice work eeler and fair play on your first sai comp looks like you caught them with their trousers down

Great to be out again with SAI, I put my disaster down to that Fixed Spool yoke!!! They suck!!!

Weldone again to the winners.

Well done eeler and gar. Excellent results on your first day out with SAI

Well done eeler and gar!

I had 3 fish in the first 2 hours, then nothing. Had to break three times with fish on. Oh well!

Looking forward (I think!) to Cheekpoint in February

John

Looking forward (I think!) to Cheekpoint in February

John

Yeah I'm the same way myself John

welldone eeler i think i lost all my fish in the surf

welldone eeler i think i lost all my fish in the surf

you said that twice gordy how many fish did you loose where you using 6/0 pennels again

impressive start for the new guys, getting car ready for mot, hope to be there for cheekpoint

cheers lad's, it was good craic, looking forward to the next one.

Thanks lads,Great day and great fun looking forward to the next one i'm hooked.