The weather forecast for day 2 of the Irish Winter Shore Angling Festival was not great, with lots of rain forecast but thankfully, most of the rain fell overnight. Today, weather wise, turned out to be better than expected with only a sprinkling of showers. It was mlder than yesterday too and the wind had also dropped overnight. The water was stilll coloured following recent strong winds and heavy rainfall.
The venue for day 2 of the Irish Winter Shore Angling Festival were the beaches at Old Bawn, Co Wexford and there was an expectation that the fishing would be great today. However, fishing was to prove more difficult than anticipated. From the “all in” fish were taken all along the beach with some nice flounder and dabs being taken. Many fish were taken close to the shore in the gullies. After about an hour, the early burst of activity had subsided and anglers had to work extremely hard to keep the fish coming in. A number of anglers were all within striking distance of each other and a bad day could have seen some of yesterdays leaders slip back. Catches were down on yesterday with circa 19 fish being the best catch of the day. It was a close run thing though and as the event entered the last 15 minutes Paul Tyndall had a storming finish with 5 fish. Tomorow will be an interesting contest with a number of people still in contention for the individual title. In particular, I will be keeping an eye on the battle between Paul Tyndall and Dave Roe. The best flatfish today was a nice 36cm flounder taken by Michael Quinn and best round fish was a 24cm codling taken by James Ryan. Fishing on the final day of the event tomorrow will be very interesting indeed. Today’s results supplied by Michael Quinn and the committee are as follows.
Individual
1st Dave Roe, 2nd Paul Tyndall, 3rd Billy Buckley, 4th Sean Ivory, 5th Karl Whelan, 6th Paul Whelan, 7th Chris Clarke
Two Man Team
1st Dave Roe & Joe Byrne, 2nd Billy Buckley & Kevin Lewis, 3rd Paul Tyndall & Stephen Glynn, 4th Ashley Sampson & Gareth Griffiths
Four Man Team
1st Billy Buckley, Kevin Lewis, David Dobbie, Isaac Muir, 2nd Karl Whelan, Eric Salmon, Paul Heffernan, James Gordon, 3rd Dave Roe, James Ryan, Joe Byrne, Joe Carley, 4th Ian Knight, Peader Taite, Jack Keegan, Paul Tyndall
Super Pool
Paul Tyndall, Dave Roe, Sean Ivory
Long Flat
1 Micheál Quinn 36cm Flounder, 2 Joe Duggan 35cm Flounder
Long Round
1 James Ryan 24cm Codling, 2 Isaac Muir 23 Rockling
