Co. Leitrim Angler Charlie Greaves won back-to-back angling festivals on the fish-filled Inniscarra Lake after quickly spotting a massive and sudden change from bream to roach fishing. The Cork lake that is famous for its bream fishing saw a great turnaround that caught most of the competitors on the hop. And while feeder fishing is usually the key to a netful of fish, many of the better catches came from pole-to-hand and included a lot of roach.
Vintners Cup
- Charlie Greaves 70,800 kg
- Mathew Forster 66,100 kg
- Dave Carter 59,150 kg
The road to victory:
Day 1 – Charlie drew peg 17 at Rooves Bay and caught 23,000 kg of roach and hybrids on a 9m line to hand pole using double red maggot.
Day 2 – Peg 39 at the Graveyard section with a catch of 24,450kg of roach and bream on a 8m to hand pole.
Day 3 – 23,350kg of roach on a 5m line to hand pole from Peg 9 of the Innisleena Wall section.
Ottewill Trophy
- Charlie Greaves 86,500 kg
- Graham Jones 64,800 kg
- Trevor Lovell 62,000 kg
Day 1 – Charlie’s Ottewill Trophy festival began on peg 28 at Rooves Bay with a 34,600kg bag of bream on an open end groundbait feeder fished at 30m using a large worm hookbait.
Day 2 – 28.500kg of roach on a 5m line to hand pole from Peg 31 at Graveyard section.
Day 3 – Charlie’s week ended with a 23,400kg bag of roach from Peg 13 on the Innisleena Wall section using a 5m line to hand pole.
2012 competition dates
Next year’s dates have already been set, for more information read on…
- August Open August 25th 1 Day Event
- Vintners Cup August 26th – 28th 3 Day Event
- Celtic Cup August 29th – 31st 3 Day Event
- September Open September 1st 1 Day Event
Festival pools and entry fee
1 day event €30.00 – 3 day event €110.00
Guaranteed 100% payout
All anglers must hold a current Inland Fisheries Ireland permit, the cost of which is not included in the above pools / entry fee.
For Further Information Please Contact Anthony Hogg
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