5 Mile point - 2 January

[Bolger]

We had a club competition set for the south beach arklow on the 2 january, as we came over the bridge in arklow we could the river was in flood the strange thing was that at the bridge we could see waves coming up the river from the open sea, when we got down to the car park there was no beach we could fish from as the rollers were coming right up to and over the rocks and into the car park.
So we was decided to moved the competition to 5 mile point, there was problem with this venue, there was a nice sea not to big and there was or no weed on the beach.
The competition started at 3.30 i was looking for a nice cod so on my first cast i had lug on the bottom hook mussell on the middle and sandeel on the top hook and right from the first cast there was small whiting and small codling on every cast size from 18cm - 28cm
As the the light started to fade whiting came on the feed big time, with three whiting every cast then the dogs stared to feed, at one stage i landed 4 fish on three hooks 1 dog and 2 whiting and another dog holding onto the smaller whiting,the dog holding onto the whiting did not count as he was not hooked.
Half was through the competition i stated to fish 3 sandeels and after about 10 minutes i landed 3 dogs, the following cast 3 whiting and so it went on till the last cast.
the competition was over at 8.30, the winner had 39 fish which included 16 dogs for 1287 points second had 38 fish 1131 points and third had 29 fish 943 points

[donal domeney]

A good session for burning off the Xmas fat and a few nice south coast sized whiting taken home for the pan