east coast raiders 1st MA arklow sth beach

People:15 members

Duration:3-8pm

Tide:ebbing

Weather:not bad, moderate easterly clearing to slight

Bait:all sorts

Rigs:again, all sorts

Results:a lot of fish




Report:This was first senior comp from the shore, and the fish didn't oblige. in true east coast fashion a whiting massacre was well underway from the beginning. was drawn on peg 3 myself next heffo and young stevie. myself and heffo where going head to head from the first few casts with a good few whiting coming in. after an hour or so, dennis was spotted running up the beach begging for lug as he had already run out it seemed himself and alby where well on their way to devastating us all, again. carl whelan was also getting a fair few.i myself was now struggling to find fish and after a fishless hour i was sure i was way off the pace, sure enough i was!!.young stevie next to me was given me a thorough kicking bringing a good few counting doubles from close range. i was left with a dilemma to either move in or stay out. i decided to do thee the later.

once darkness kicked in it was like a different comp.i began to claw my way back into it and started hitting good numbers, boycie was doing the same. only problem for me was that i was finding it hard to hit counters. plenty of whiting where more than obliging to my lug tipped with mack baits. it was now a grueling reel in, re cast, measure, re bait, re reel, circle. and some of the older lads like rodger de dodger where finding it hard to keep up. bang on 7 o'clock, i was under the assumption that our five hours fishing was over and packed up my rods and traces. looked over to my shoulder only to find lads still fishing, reminiscent of ferrypoint last year i had packed up an hour early, again! set up again i launched a last ditch effort to destroy arklows whiting population. by this point rodger had given up and armed with a 5/0 and some crab set after a rogue cod for the pools, and tea of course. ended up with a doggie for his efforts dennis and carl both lost decent fish believed to be nodders in the surf. meanwhile i had, had a couple of fishless casts and it seemed again i was in trouble, boycie was looking like he was well and truly up there now with a good few counters to his name. lines up and it was clear who was the winner, with 53 fish was carl whelan, the battle for the other two top finished was still wide open.

final scores are as stands

peg pos name no of fish points MA points

10 1st carl whelan 53 901 30
12 2nd dennis brock 48 764 29
5 3rd andrew boyce 45 720 28
11 4th albert allen 47 639 27
3 5th eric gasparro 48 605 26
9 6th mark sinnot 29 451 25
15 7th eric salmon 26 447 24
8 8th wayne reilly 27 384 23
6 9th fintan kavanagh 29 371 22
7 10th robbie terry 23 368 21
14 11th mark knight 21 286 20
2 12th paul hefernan 20 251 19
1 13th rodger buggy 10 201 18
4 14th steven devine 11 200 ---
17 15th shane nash 2 47 17

cheers to all who turned up for this comp, i really enjoyed the day,,, karl was on fire in the last hour it was immpossible to keep up with him, i was 80 points ahead of him with 1hour 15mins left,, he thrashed me in the end, fair play he is now the human trawler

great report as usual eric

thats some great fishing well done to all.

u'll all be wrecked for tomorrow

[quote="eric] bang on 7 o'clock, i was under the assumption that our five hours fishing was over and packed up my rods and traces. looked over to my shoulder only to find lads still fishing, reminiscent of ferrypoint last year i had packed up an hour early, again! [/quote] I did that in my old job one day, got some funny looks !!

Good report Eric, brilliant days fishing by the looks of it

would like to add a big congrats to alby on taking both pools in this comp,,,,31 cm whiting and a 30 cm flounder

was a great day and really injoyed my 1st comp.
i am really happy with my 8th place wen u see some of the people infront and behind me
really looking 4ward 2 the next comp and hopefully climbing up the numbers

and well done 2 all who turned up and carl, dennis and boycie on 1st 2nd 3rd.

excellent report eric, lots of fish and great craic. sounds like you all got well into the action. just a pity there was'nt anything bigger about for you all. but that seems to be the norm over the last lot of months

was a good day alright not that i did well but i,m getting a bit more into matches problem is i do think theirs a few big uns out their sometimes when theirs not i will have to ban 5/0 hooks from my tackle box for matches maybe 3/0 as well good report eric ,was i the only one to get a doggie eric? least i managed something right

Great report Eric and nice session lads well done.

great day out and fairplay to all who turned up

Well done everyone, plenty of fish caught and good craic had by all,,,and well done on the doggie Dodger ( if you found it hard to keep up with those young whippersnappers theres no hope for me,,,,)

i did win the grandad section then again i was the only one in it

Excellent report Eric. Well done on a comp well run lads.

Kev

sorry i missed it, well done on the first comp and good scoring .

i have to say i had a great time even though i blew up 2 reels . 2009 started the way 2008 finished with me wrecking reels

was i the only one to get a doggie eric?

Sorry roger, samo pegged next to me got a doggie aswell, 1st one I've seen caught on the e.c for months.

Atleast I didnt disgrace myself in my 1st comp, welldone to the usual suspects.

Weather wasnt the best, the surf nearly had me off my feet a few times...must pay more attention....too busy watching/laughing at dbrock running up and down the beach, traces, fish etc all over the place

I didnt know he could run that quick

great comp lads and well done to karl on winning the first ever senior east coast raiders comp. he had a good weekends fishing finished fifth in his zone on sunday's leinster league also.

i have to say i had a great time even though i blew up 2 reels . 2009 started the way 2008 finished with me wrecking reels

you no uve 1 more 2 blow up as it happens in 3s

[diego]

Good stuff lads, I just passed by with the car to see if you were fishing or not... the waves and the colored water looked terrible. I thought that you were all going to blank
Congratulation to Carl for his result, I cannot believe that he managed to catch 50+ whiting with that sea!

Diego

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