MUNSTER CLOSED 2nd Leg

The weather gods deserted us again for our leg of the Munsters. After a few weeks of decent summer weather yesterdays match was fished out in 20 mph easterly winds and constant rain.

That is how it goes and anglers are prepared for the worst weather. The real problem yesterday was the WEED ! In zone C most anglers stopped fishing as it was simply impossible .

Zone A was fairly clean for the first couple of hours , zone B was just about fishable aswell so lads in these areas got a few fish on the cards early, the best of these being a bass in the 40's to Alan Mulcahy and a flounder of 33cm to Jeff O'Donoghue . Gearoid McCarthy on peg 1 had 4 flounders early two of which were undersize and didn't count .Other lads found the odd undersize fish aswell, insize fish were rare among the 27 anglers who turned out . Alan O'Dowling on the other end peg (33) had a flounder of 21cm to be leading the dreaded zone C around the halfway mark and he looked to be walking it at this point as nobody else had a trace in the water !

As the match went into the last couple of hours the weed spread more evenly along the beach giving everyone a good rod bend with battles being played out along the shoreline , I even saw a rod and reel dragged off the rod stand and into the water by the mighty Kelp !

Then in a moment of inspiration Derek Kenrick dug out a 2 hook clipped down baited it with mackeral + lug and sent it in the direction of America. Holding the rod high in the air he was able to avoid most of the weed in the first 100yards and give his trace enough time to catch a dogfish. Like sheep we all followed, infact it cheered us up big-time in zone C as most of us managed to get dogs on the scorecard and I'm very glad to say it won Derek the match as he caught a seriously impressive 9 dogs in that last hour and a half . So much for fishing for flats and bass on Inch Strand !

Here's a shortened version of the final results , full results will follow.

Zone A 1st Gearoid McCarthy; West Cork & District 4 fish
2nd Alan Mulcahy , 3rd Jeff O'Donoghue
Zone B 1st Aidan O'Halloran; Waterville 2 fish
2nd Chris O'Sullivan ; 3rd James McCartan
Zone C 1st Derek Kenrick; West Cork & District 9 fish
2nd Alan O'Dowling ; 3rd Eugene Farrelly
Overall Winner Derek Kenrick

Longest Round Alan Mulcahy , Longest Flat Jeff O'Donoghue.

It was a very tough day on the beach and congratulations must go to everyone for sticking it out on this mid-summers day , .... to the winners though a big well done!

Weldone to all who fished and superb result from Derek!!!

sorry with the delay with update of results having problems with pc.well done to all that fished last sun in tough conditions.well done to all the winners.
NEXT LEG IS 14TH SEPT in Waterville lets hope the weather and fishing is a bit better and we get a better turn out.

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Hi Lads,

Fair play on getting the scores up great to see how things are going. Small thing though shouldn't I be a few spots higher 98pts and 99pts should be 197 not 178,

Cheers, Chris.

Sorry Chris ill sort that out have to set excel update on laptop had to do it all manually anyone else see mistakes just let me know.