Ballybay Angling Association’s Annual 2 Day Festival is always a well run event which is thoroughly enjoyed by everyone. The competition, which this year had a prize fund exceeding €4000, saw 67 anglers fish County Monaghan venues including Drumlona, Bairds Shore, Bream Rock and Lough Egish this weekend. The Dromore system favourites produced mixed bags of roach, perch, tench and some bream. Although fishing was difficult some nice bags of fish were caught over the weekend, with a few tench and bream showing up, as well as some good quality roach.
At the end of Day 1 Nicky Seddon was coming out on top with 27.625kgs. Tony Burke was in placed Second with 25.200kgs and Kevin Johnston was in third place on 22.150kgs.
Day 2 saw more tough fishing but some of the other anglers rallied and Johnny Keith made his intentions clear as he amassed a very creditable total weight of 44.730kg to win the competition.
Congratulations to the winners.
1st Johnny Keith 44.730kgs
2nd Nick Seddon 33.495kgs
3rd Kevin Johnson 30.710kgs
4th Tony Burke 27.075kgs
5th John Fletcher 24.175kg
Total paid out over the two days was €4020 plus funding from Inland Fisheries Ireland, which was given out as €25 vouchers x 8 – vouchers were supplied by Irish Bait and Tackle Limited.
We would like to the Soda Barrel, The Welcome Inn, Irish Bait & Tackle, all who helped out with the weigh ins, the local farmers for use of their land over the 2 days, IFI, and lastly all the anglers who fished, well done to all.
Lake payouts:
Section A – day 1
1st Nick Seddon
2nd Tony Burke
Section B – day 1
1st Rory O’Neill
2nd Ken Seddon
Section A – day 2
1st Andrew Lightbown
2nd Lee Symmonds
Section B – day 2
1st Johnny Keith
2nd John Fletcher
Section pay outs over the two days are as follows:
Darren Fairhurst, Val Brady, Finnian Feeney, Rob Rowe, Nick Harrison, Davy Hamilton, Willem Van Den Helm, Kevin Johnson x 2, Andy Jackson, Mark Pollard, Baz Smith x 2, Johnny Keith, Liam O’Brien, Graham Worley, Rory O’Neill, John Pollock, Nick Harrison, Tony Green, Eamon Rogers, Andy Chapman, Neil Mazurek, Jimmy Douglas, Steve Myers, Lol Higgins.
