East coast raiders 2nd MA courtown, north beach

[eric]

People:14 sunbalsted souls

Duration:1-6pm

Tide:flooding

Weather:flat calm , sunshine

Bait:all manner of baits

Rigs: loads

Results:flounders, dabs and whiting




Report:what can i say the first comp in a long time with pleasurable conditions, no 6 foot waves, gale force winds, rain, sleet or snow greeted us!! just nice balmy weather. not great for the fishing mind you but sure who cares. anyway at 1pm 14 lads casted 42 baits into the sea in the hope of a fish or two. a couple of lads decided to try their luck for an early dog at range but the majority went in close in search of flats. rodger was first to strike lucky with a nice 30cm flounder from under his feet. after a biteless first cast i decided to put one out and after 15 min was rewarded with a lovely 20cm dab. a few fish where starting to show, with alby grabbing a few flats too. sure enough an hour came and went and this fishing was slow to say the least, eventually i put a flapper about 30 yards, baited up a spare trace and proceeded to twitch away until i got a bite, let the line down, twitched again and sure enough another bite, evetually brought in a double counter both caught on lug tipped with maddies. robby to the right of me landed a lovely flat on the same cast at 30cm, so it was still fairly tight at the top. dennis evetually caught a fish, and with it took the pool for the longest flat. fish where still coming in in dribs and drabs, no real pattern was emerging, just casting and hoping. went back out again after a few blank casts in close and was rewarded with an undersize whitng, hit an undersize flounder the next cast at range too, was well chuffed!. word was poor old boycie only had one in for 5/6 fish. still lads where getting a few fish over the beach, with no one blanking. missed a couple of bites and finally got back into a few fish with an hour to go, managed three undersize whiting in fairly close, mangling beautifully presented flounder baits, still was happy to see them, making my card look a little more respectable. dennis, who had a bet with alby for a tenner over wether a dog would show up, was still wanging them out and the baits where coming back untouched everytime, demorilising stuff. after another missed bite, my last cast was plopped in fairly close, in the hope of a late flounder, after a little knock, i suspected a small whiting was mincing the bait again. but at lines up i was pleasently surprised to see a 21cm dabs flappin on the beach. it seemed fairly tight as to who won it, with myself, rodger and robbie all within a shout, thats what we thought until we heard, tony (a new member to the club)had somehow amased 24 fish??? credit where credit is due, well done, absolutely hammered all of us. final results where

pos-name---------------no of fish----points-------ma points
1st-tonyfella-------------24---------207----------30
2nd-eric------------------9---------129----------29
3rd-rodgerdedodger-------6---------117----------28
4th-robbie terry-----------6-------- 100----------27
5th-alby------------------6---------93-----------26
6th-bigsod----------------9---------86-----------25
7th- stephen drumm-------4---------69-----------24
8th-boycie----------------9---------65-----------23
9th-wayne riley-----------7---------57-----------22
10th-shammo-------------6---------50-----------21
11th-stepehn devlin-------2---------36-----------20
11th-dbrock--------------1---------36-----------19
13th-croppy boy----------1---------25-----------18
14th-mark sinnot----------2---------10-----------17

[eric]

p.s big thank you to rockhopper for supplying some fantastic prizes, much appreaciated

[dbrock]

can i just add great day out lads fair play to all
and a big thanks to Tom Burness and Ian Golds Tackle for some amazing prizes,,


oh and alby double or quits for the next comp
we will come up with some thing to bet about on the day

[JOHN1]

great report eric a pleasure to read

and a big well done to TONYFELLA on the first with 24 fish fantastic result

[MC]

great report Eric, glad to see the weather was nice for a change, congrate to the newbie who showed you all up

[wayne riley]

hav 2 say a big well done 2 da new lad, great stuff from him.
he gives all us newbies hope, altough he fished like a pro on such harsh conditions
well done mate see ye 23rd march and game on

i was jus hapy 2 fish in the sun 4 a change

[keith]

Well done Tony super result against some top angler's And well done Eric and Roger sounds like it was a great aul comp, Sick I couldn't be there

[bigsod]

well done Tony your a natural.Ill be the one looking for tips now, fair play to ya.

[roger de dodger]

great prizes and plenty of em well done tony you put us in the shade denis couldnt get a dog and the place was full of em mark had a good run with a whole mac but it dropped it after the first run it loved denis and my rag

[dbrock]

jesus that dog was nuts it ate 2 baited hooks, will people never learn to keep uncontrolled dogs on leads,
twas hillarious watching the owner chasing the dog up and down

[Al and Jordan]

well done lads sounds like a good day was had by all

[Tony Fella]

Lads im giving lessons on wednesday Thanks for all the sound words great match and even greater bunch of lads in the club!!! nice report to read eric

[alby]

Lads im giving lessons on wednesday Thanks for all the sound words great match and even greater bunch of lads in the club!!! nice report to read eric

yeah, fcuk off Tony

Not a bad start to your match fishing career, well done mate.

[eyesreilly]

Well done all,, nice to see everyone catching Great results during daylight,,not easy to catch this time of year.

[croppyboy]

well done tony great result for ya

i only had 1 dab myself couldnt buy a fish went down the hooksizes and still couldnt get one
but it was an enjoyable day anyway

fintan

[Tony Fella]

well done tony great result for ya

i only had 1 dab myself couldnt buy a fish went down the hooksizes and still couldnt get one
but it was an enjoyable day anyway

fintan

Sound croppyboy one dab is better then blankin mate looking forward to next months match

[Bass Buster]

well done lads on gettn a few especialy tony.crackin report and the weather held up for use too wat more could you want apart from a few more decent fish.