Competitions and Meets 2007

[saisac committee]

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JANUARY

Ennereilly January 13. 2-6 pm
LW HW
10:44 17:02
1.0 m 1.2 m

- just to get the ball rolling with a friendly meet/comp
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FEBRUARY

Kilmuckridge February 10 2-7 pm (MA)

February a bad time of year for fishing but myself and mark have fished here at this time of the year and had close on 20 flatties in a session, mostly small but quite a few big enough to count



POSTPONED to March 18 Kilmore Quay was Feb 11 Boat booked-Celtic Lady with John Deveraux- MA



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MARCH

POSTPONEDMeet/Comp
portrush area Sat Mar 3rd 5-9 TBC

LW HW
13:05 19:11
0.4 m 1.7 m


March 18 Kilmore Quay was Mar 18 Boat booked-Celtic Lady with John Deveraux- MA



Dunree/Fahan, Co Donegal March 24 4-9 pm (MA)
(Fanad Head tide)
LW HW
15:50 21:39
0.9 m 3.3 m


There are plenty of flats to decent sizes to be had at Dunree with Ray and LSDs interspersed (do a search on shore reports under Dunree) or hit Fahan and fish for Thornies and LSDs with occasional flats and Gurnards. Has to be more exciting than Micro flattie bashing. Both marks fish during the day.

We will be fishing off the main beach which is a 5 minute Yomp from parking. There is no vehicular access to this mark. It comprises a sandy beach which is crossed by two shallow streams. Waders will be required if the larger of the two is in flood but it is situated towards one side of the beach so that may not be necessary. Sea trout and salmon actually run up this stream, when you see the size and depth you will be surprised! Plenty of flats to be had, in and around this venue I've had Dabs, Plaice, flounder, Thornbacks caught here, LSDs to plague proportion at times, grey and red gurnards and coalfish. I have never fished this venue with worm baits, they are impossible to buy in Donegal, however there have been some excellent catches on mackerel strip, sandeel etc. This being a sheltered bay there is bugger all in the way of a surf TBH unless the weather is really manky. Its an easy venue to fish with few snags, easy access and best of all, I promise you a cracking night on the town that night

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APRIL

Little Kilary April 21 3pm - 8pm (MA)

LW HW
14:56 21:10
0.7 m 3.8 m


IMHO The very best time of year to fish this spot. There will be no shortage of fish (famous last words) with an excellent chance of ray before the dogs reach plague proportions

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MAY

Mullaghmore May 12th 1-6pm (MA)
HW LW
15:06 21:35
3.1 m 1.2 m

Mullaghmore is a nice little beach which would produce flounder and turbot and if people felt we needed something in the northwest.


Boat Trip/Comp "Enterprise" from Rathmullan May 13th. MA

Some varied fishing within Lough Swilly with high chances of getting into a Tope! Rathmullan just over an hour or so from Mullaghmore for those wishing to attend both.

jw,petekd,marco,paulocallaghan





Boat Trip/Comp "Clare Dragoon" from Carrigaholt, Co Clare May 26th. MA

Fishing with Luke Aston see
http://www.fishandstay.com/boat/

jd,jw,petekd,marco,mr green,paulocallaghan












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JUNE

Clonea,Waterford June 16 3.30-8.30pm (MA)

fishing from 3.30- 8.30

dungarvan

venue chioce will be within half hour drive from dungarvan

plan to fish clonea if conditions are right(surf)

if conditions are not right(flat calm sea) then venue will be changed to the slob bank(youghal)

other venues may be considered but all will be within the dungarvan area

Day after bass ban.

June hopefully gives us a shout for giltheads if people make a weekend of it and

have a meet on the cunnigar on the 17th.


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JULY

Summer Meet

Rosslare (Cannons or Point), July 7th 7pm-midnight or so(TBC)
LW HW
17:49 00:11
0.6 m 1.7 m

Apparently the northern lads are mad to get a smoothound so this would be a good incentive to get lads travelling for the return leg of the north V south . Plenty of Bass venues near by too. Tope at the Point.


Kilmore Quay for July 8 Comp MA Boats booked-Sailfish with Leslie Bates+ Karen Anne with Sean Radford (jd,jw,mc,marco,mr green,petekd ,paulocallaghan,donald ,the scotsman,ferg,stephen d,yappo)




Tope Hunt "Clare Dragoon" from Carrigaholt, Co Clare July 21.

best time for tope fishing there

Fishing with Luke Aston see
http://www.fishandstay.com/boat/

jd,jw,petekd,marco



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AUGUST

Gurteen August 11 2pm-7pm (MA)
Note change in venue
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Travel down to the Bridges of Ross the day after for pollack,wrasse and triggers


Shark Hunt "Clare Dragoon" from Carrigaholt, Co Clare August 25th .
jd,jw,petekd,pete,mr_green,marco,yappo

(to be finalised shortly) If the weather is calm, try for a blue shark

otherwise general reef

Fishing with Luke Aston see
http://www.fishandstay.com/boat/


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SEPTEMBER

Ballybrannigan September 8 1pm - 6pm (MA)
Ballycotton tides
Sat 8 Sep
HW LW HW LW
03:39 10:23 16:14 22:54
3.3 m 0.9 m 3.5 m 0.8

No 8 on East Cork Shore map


Boat Trip/Competition aboard "The Chieftain" on September 16th MA
Skippered by Mark O'Reilly AKA Cobhskipper. There will be some great varied fishing around and outside Cork harbour. We were pulling in Cod 3 at a time on board "The Chieftain" last year... :D !

jd,jw,petekd,marco,mr green,paulocallaghan,donal d,the scotsman........ferg,yappo



Tuna Trip aboard ""Rosguill " on September 29th
Skippered by Michael McVeigh,Downings, County Donegal . Try the blue fin fishing. It
seems that last year the blue fin were very poor for some reason, so
if it looks bad this year we could switch to conventional species on
the day. There seems to be great fishing up there anyway.
http://www.rosguill.com/

(jd,jw,petekd,marco)



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OCTOBER

Laytown/Portrane Sat 6 Oct 5pm-9pm meet TBC

LW HW LW HW
01:28 07:59 13:56 20:10
3.6 m 4.0 m





Brandon beaches October 20 6pm-11pm (MA)

LW HW
17:31 23:32
1.7 m 3.2


Definitely unlucky there this year with the conditions. Suggested to fish later so if we were to get flat calm conditions again at least half the comp would be in darkness and there would be dogs and ray around. Also prob safe to assume most would be staying over therefor not rushing to get on the road.



followed by


Boat Trip/Comp "Deep Cove" from Scraggane with Danny McCarthy October 21. MA

"would recommend danny mc carthy on MV Deep Cove out of scraggane pier in dingle. anytime in the summer (june - sept) will see you able to catch (based on what we have had and what i have seen caught) mackerel, pollock to 12lbs, spurdogs to 16lbs, pout to 2.5lbs, ling to 20, huss to 13,red gurnard to 2lbs, tubs to speci size,tope to 70lbs,skate to 100+,conger to 30 and so on" (Adam S)


Deep Cove
30' BMW Napier. 270 HP
Skipper: Danny McCarthy
Licence: 1004 Expires: May 2007
Base: Scraggane Operational area: Brandon Bay, Tralee Bay.

Notes: The boat caters for ten anglers. Scraggane pier is out to sea on the Maharee's. The Maharee's divides Tralee Bay from Brandon Bay. this enables us to fish the shallow's to the East, or the deep to the West. Quality gear available.

Address: Keelballylahive, Castlegregory, Co. Kerry.
Telephone: +353 66 7139003 or +353 86 8772746

jd,jw,petekd,marco,mr green,paulocallaghan,donald,the scotsman..................ferg,yappo


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NOVEMBER

Garryvoe/Ballinwilling November 17 4.30 pm - 9.30pm (MA)

Sat 17 Nov
LW HW
16:26 22:14
1.3 m 3.4 m



Excellent venue which can throw up anything! Fished a comp here a month or two ago and pulled in a treble, 3lb strap conger on the top hook, dog on the middle and a 9lb painted ray on the bottom hook! Coalies bass and cod here also. Has to be fished in darkness however.
Note: This may have to fished as part of Munster Open


Have a Meet at De Wall the Sunday!!

[saisac committee]

We will add the list of alternates,extra meets/non MA comps, and also boat trips, within the next week. We will shortly move this post to the public SAC board.

[blaker]

First impressions (from somebody who still hasn't got off their arse and paid the sub!!) looks good. Good spread of locations, well known spots and some more "local knowledge" ones!

[teacher]

Looks good. Looking forward to getting to as many of these as possible. It's been about 15 years since I fished a competition, and that was as a junior!!

For the Kilmuckridge compo, if it hasn't already been decided, could I suggest Roney Point as an alternate venue. It's a different type of ground that might fish better if Kilmuckridge is out. Early season bass are a possibility here (maybe Feb is a bit too early!).

Jonathan

[teacher]

I've created a Google Calendar of the SAI events for the year. I haven't made it fully public (but I can if requested by committee).

If anyone with a Google account wants access, just send me your google account email address and I'll make it available.

[MC]

First comp and am looking forward to it, not to mention nervous as hell

[jd]

Petekd and I will consult with a few others (jw, blaker ) and have details of boat comps asap. We will try and tie them in with shore comps where practicable.

[stevecrow74]

Ennereilly January 13. 2-6 pm

dunno if i can make this one.. might be playing a gig with a thin lizzy tribute band... will see what i can do..

as for the rest of the comps.. i'll cycle there if i have to :lol: :lol:

[teacher]

Two of these are only 20 minutes away from me :D Pressure's on now ...

[x]

None in Norn Iron?

[petekd]

Think we have only one club member from that part of the country TBH Pat......and we are going to Donegal.


Edit.... That doesnt sound right, apologies, what I meant was that as there are no (Bar MC) members from that neck of the woods in the club, there is noone really wanting or pushing for a comp up and around there. Bigphil was the only fella that even suggested a Northern venue on the suggestions thread.

[hairyconger]

Think we have only one club member from that part of the country TBH Pat......and we are going to Donegal.


Edit.... That doesnt sound right, apologies, what I meant was that as there are no (Bar MC) members from that neck of the woods in the club, there is noone really wanting or pushing for a comp up and around there. Bigphil was the only fella that even suggested a Northern venue on the suggestions thread.

well lets leave benone if we can :roll:

[jd]

Rosslare Meet is changed to the 7th- an evening risng tide is much better.

[Donagh]

I'm pretty sure the ballyreen competition is during the international week. You might check with Fanore SAC that they aren't fishing there that day .

Donagh

[petekd]

Kieran had a back up venue suggested not too far from there, similar ground etc so it should still be ok.

[Al]

Sounds good lads :D Might miss a few between Feb and May though but i shall hopefully make the rest...oh yeah and i'll be paying Mark next week.

[Don]

These look great, fair play to ye lads. The list also gives me plenty of time to seek planning permission for absence from the missus.

Donal.

[pete]

Good spread and choice of venues lads. I have no excuse not to join up now.

[MC]

Ennereilly January 13. 2-6 pm
LW HW
10:44 17:02
1.0 m 1.2 m

- just to get the ball rolling with a friendly meet/comp

ok I'll the first to ask, how do I get there?(If I get off work?)

[stevecrow74]

ok I'll the first to ask, how do I get there?(If I get off work?)

in sure something can be arranged

Good spread and choice of venues lads. I have no excuse not to join up now.

i was going to say "at least there are two comps up the north area", but you'll be down cork so you should have no probs.. :lol: