Cork Small Boats Festival 2010 - Results
Fri Oct 01, 2010 5:41 pm
Cork Small Boats Festival 2010
Another year another successful event! There were a number of changes to the event format this year. Firstly the species hunt would take place over 4 days. Secondly this was the first year that we would fish for “micro” species: a range of species with a minimum size of 140mm – including blennies and the smaller wrasse species.
Twenty five of the twenty seven booked boats made it to the launch on day 1. We started the competition on Sunday as the weather was forecast to be ideal. It was a beautiful day to be afloat and the scores reflected the perfect conditions. SCREAMING REELS led the way with 24 species, an incredible feat of angling. BEASTMASTER made up the best of the rest with 19 species, itself a huge score.
We fished our second day on Monday. The weather was quite blustery but there was unrestricted fishing. BASS HUNTER carded 15 species on the day with KATIE returning 13 species. Boats were attempting to add to their day 1 totals and many added 5 or six to their totals. The overnight leaders struggled to add to their scores so the pack began to close the gap!
Match Day 3 went ahead on Tuesday. Conditions were far superior that Day 2. Many boats went to sea again while the harbour marks were very busy. SHOCK WAVES claimed the most species prize with 13. Many of the boats that were topping up their scores did well with SKUA adding 8 species to their tally on the day. Things were getting cramped on the leader board heading into day 4!
Match Day 4 was another splendid day. Many mid-table boats decided to try and claim the daily prizes – hard to blame them on such a perfect day. NAUTI LASS carded 15 species while BELLA VISTA 69 had 13. BEASTMASTER looked comfortable on the leader board, a species ahead and a few species to fish for on the final day. In the end BEASTMASTER failed to add to their tally and Team SKUA managed to add 2 more bringing their tally to 31 – a new record even if it was a first time 4-day event. Team SKUA’s win is only the second time that the match has been won by an Irish boat.
Since we finished the event on Wednesday we rescheduled our presentation for Wednesday night. A great night was had in Trabolgan and the celebrations went on into the early hours.
This was the first time in many years that we had 4 days of unrestricted fishing. It was a splendid week. There was 41 species of fish caught over the 4 days, more than 45 if you include the bait fish. There were some fine captures including specimen dogfish and megrim and a few unusual ones including a fine 3.15 pound red bream and an opportunist brill! The best bass was won by SEA PIGEON with a fish of 6lbs. The best flat fish was a plaice of 3.2lbs by ESCAPADE. The Best combination of the 10 nominated species were SEA PIGEON & SKUA.
Congratulations to all the competitors and prize winners.
The overall placing is attached.
Full results are available at http://www.skuaangling.net
Another year another successful event! There were a number of changes to the event format this year. Firstly the species hunt would take place over 4 days. Secondly this was the first year that we would fish for “micro” species: a range of species with a minimum size of 140mm – including blennies and the smaller wrasse species.
Twenty five of the twenty seven booked boats made it to the launch on day 1. We started the competition on Sunday as the weather was forecast to be ideal. It was a beautiful day to be afloat and the scores reflected the perfect conditions. SCREAMING REELS led the way with 24 species, an incredible feat of angling. BEASTMASTER made up the best of the rest with 19 species, itself a huge score.
We fished our second day on Monday. The weather was quite blustery but there was unrestricted fishing. BASS HUNTER carded 15 species on the day with KATIE returning 13 species. Boats were attempting to add to their day 1 totals and many added 5 or six to their totals. The overnight leaders struggled to add to their scores so the pack began to close the gap!
Match Day 3 went ahead on Tuesday. Conditions were far superior that Day 2. Many boats went to sea again while the harbour marks were very busy. SHOCK WAVES claimed the most species prize with 13. Many of the boats that were topping up their scores did well with SKUA adding 8 species to their tally on the day. Things were getting cramped on the leader board heading into day 4!
Match Day 4 was another splendid day. Many mid-table boats decided to try and claim the daily prizes – hard to blame them on such a perfect day. NAUTI LASS carded 15 species while BELLA VISTA 69 had 13. BEASTMASTER looked comfortable on the leader board, a species ahead and a few species to fish for on the final day. In the end BEASTMASTER failed to add to their tally and Team SKUA managed to add 2 more bringing their tally to 31 – a new record even if it was a first time 4-day event. Team SKUA’s win is only the second time that the match has been won by an Irish boat.
Since we finished the event on Wednesday we rescheduled our presentation for Wednesday night. A great night was had in Trabolgan and the celebrations went on into the early hours.
This was the first time in many years that we had 4 days of unrestricted fishing. It was a splendid week. There was 41 species of fish caught over the 4 days, more than 45 if you include the bait fish. There were some fine captures including specimen dogfish and megrim and a few unusual ones including a fine 3.15 pound red bream and an opportunist brill! The best bass was won by SEA PIGEON with a fish of 6lbs. The best flat fish was a plaice of 3.2lbs by ESCAPADE. The Best combination of the 10 nominated species were SEA PIGEON & SKUA.
Congratulations to all the competitors and prize winners.
The overall placing is attached.
Full results are available at http://www.skuaangling.net
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Re: Cork Small Boats Festival 2010 - Results
Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:08 pm
A another great year and the gods blessed us with the weather for a second year in a row. If we counted the various types of blenny’s and gobys the event may even have broken 50 species for the week, an incredible feat for any event. Still on a high after the win and already bursting for next year’s event. 
Thanks goes to all competitors for their comradery during the week and of course the non stop craic and a special thanks to our long suffering and experienced captain Jim C.
Thanks goes to all competitors for their comradery during the week and of course the non stop craic and a special thanks to our long suffering and experienced captain Jim C.
Re: Cork Small Boats Festival 2010 - Results
Sat Oct 02, 2010 12:03 pm
Well done to ye lads, i'd say the preperation and effort put in was monumental.
Re: Cork Small Boats Festival 2010 - Results
Sat Oct 02, 2010 12:41 pm
Nice one lads 
Re: Cork Small Boats Festival 2010 - Results
Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:49 pm
pete wrote:Well done to ye lads, i'd say the preperation and effort put in was monumental.
Prep in terms of bait, organisation etc. is huge. Effort..... Unreal !
Re: Cork Small Boats Festival 2010 - Results
Tue Oct 05, 2010 5:43 pm
Well done on the win lads, fine result, sounds like you all had a belting week and what a grand job you guys do to organise everything. Great stuff 
Re: Cork Small Boats Festival 2010 - Results
Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:51 am
congrats to the overall winner and to all who took part.but 31 species is top class..i love to see that list of fish that made 31
Re: Cork Small Boats Festival 2010 - Results
Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:21 am
Have a look at boat 7 "Skua" on the list on the web link below:
http://www.skuaangling.net/Boat%20sheets%202010.pdf
http://www.skuaangling.net/Boat%20sheets%202010.pdf
Re: Cork Small Boats Festival 2010 - Results
Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:02 pm
Here is a wee video taken about Skua on the first day... As always there is a scramble for the mouth of the harbor and an incredible buss in the air. Sorry about the pixelation in the opening seconds.... youtube compression
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wdu4ifEYBD4
Kev
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wdu4ifEYBD4
Kev