ECRSAC Xmas Comp, Sat 10th Dec, Greystones South Beach

People:load of heads

Duration:4 - 9

Tide:rising

Weather:

Bait:worms & tippits

Rigs:lost

Results:cod, rockling, flounder, dab, coalies, scorpion fish, whiting, pouting




Report:
10 anglers turned up to fish the last comp of the year - The Christmas Fayre Turkey Shoot. With 8 prizes to be won, it truly would only be the turkeys who didn't secure the Christmas Feast!! As is the norm on Greystones South Beach, some poor fools were pegged on the pipe & as luck would have it Alby, Fintan & De Cock went about leaving every rig they had in their box attached to it!! If a diver ever goes in there he will pick up 100's of impact leads! Meanwhile Gordy was flying like a greyhound from Traps woth a lovely 40cm+ codling early doors and a few other small cod too. Johnny Hughes was up to his usual tricks of bringing in trebles of sizeable whiting every cast, with the Dodger & Harry trying to keep up. Fintan was now out of rigs, I was blanking and John had caught the Irish Whiting Quota for 2012 but we battled on in pleasant conditions and once again the beach threw up some decents sized specimens - Rockling to 36cm, a 30 cm Scorpion fish and a decent smattering of keeper codling & whiting.

In the final shake up, John had won well worth 39 fish on the card, Roger had over 30 & me had Fintan had 4 fish and a sewage pipe between us!! Anyway, well done to all the lads who won prizes, it'll be beans on toast in mine & bootsy's gaf on Christmas Day.

Final shake up is on www.ecrsac.com

the turkey is got it was unfortunate the amount of sand washed off the beach un earthed a lot of snags normally not present ,i remember fishing off that pipe as a young lad it was the main sewer pipe for the burnaby area and enticed some amount of fish in from the depths ah the good old days!

Well done to John on a serious roll at the moment

Big well done to John......again! As usual good craic and great atmosphere along the beach. Well to a point. I had to get confession after hearing Fintan snap off a few rigs! Really looking forward to next year. The first comp is shaping up to be a cod fest by all accounts.

Well done John and all the lads that won prizes!

well done lads it was a good trip even if i got snagged everytime i cast out but at least no one got a blank and i beat alby by 1 cm

Weldone on the win John and to all who fished, nice few fish caught.

Thanks lads, i think i have lost about a stone with all the running up and down the beach, over the last two comps