The Ballybay Angling association held their two day festival on Saturday and Sunday last. 64 Anglers turned out to fish the annual 2 day event.
Irish Bait and Tackle were on site with fresh bait for all anglers, whilst the Riverdale Ballybay provided a hearty breakfast before the anglers headed off to their pegs.
Ballybay Section A consisted of Bairds Shore, Bream Rock, and Mullinary, whilst the Lough Egish sections- Section B where Sheila’s Shore, Fuzzy Burgers and the Roadside.
The draw was held promplty at 9am. Due to some anglers travelling together Ballybay Angling decided that a 12 noon start would be the best option, allowing anglers to get to the different venues within the sections in plenty of time to set up.
Top 4 at the first day were Tommy Dowd, Richard Wilk, Cathal Hughes and Piotr Horbinski.
Day 2…
Ballybay report on day 2: The Ballybay Festival saw a few sore heads appearing for the registration – but in saying that all anglers turned up and again the draw went off well and it was decided by everyone that we would fish from 11.30am to 4.30pm.
Mullinary fished very poorly on the first day and a few that had drew that shoreline on day 2 decided not to fish it, and to everyones surprise it threw up a couple of weights of 10Kgs plus.
Sheila’s Shore with the heaviest weight on day 1 again proved to be the place to be with a weight of 22.675kgs.
Bairds Shore which always fishes better with a it of bait in after the first day, threw a few nice hybrids, with the winning weight on this shoreline coming in a 13.275kgs.
Every steady Bream Rock/Fuzzy Burgers/Roadside were their usual selves with weights from 7.000kgs – 9.000kgs showing up.
Over the 2 days just over 696Kgs of fish were caught, well done lads.
From the list of winners below a total of 44 payouts were made to the 64 anglers who fished this 2 day festival.
Results are as follows:
1st Johnny McKinley 27.550Kgs
2nd Tommy Dowd 26.325Kgs
3rd Cathal Hughes 24.825Kgs
4th Jimmy Douglas 22.050Kgs
Lake wins Day 1 went to: Andy Chapman, Richard Wilk, Robertas Ziliatas, Tommy Dowd, Cathal Hughes, Piotr Horbinski.
Section wins Day 1 went to: Darius Karaliunas, Sean Brereton, Billy Owens, Philip Jackson, Mick Carr, Paul Magone, Nicky Harrison, Neil Mazurek, Nigel Houslworth, Keith Murphy, Dougie Bown, Ewan Weed, Artur Czarnocki, Mick Smith.
Lake wins Day 2 went to: Cathal Hughes, David Gibson, Billy Owens, Johnny McKinley, Kevin Norcliffe, Robertas Ziliatas.
Section wins Day 2 went to: Kevin Johnson, Artur Czarnocki, Tommy Dowd, Sean Brereton, Lee Symonds, Piotr Horbinski, Johnny Keith, Ewan Weed, Noel Kellett, Jimmy Douglas, Gary McClelland, Richard Wilk, Neil Mazurek, Nigel Houlsworth.
We would like to thank IFI for their kind sponsorship, Irish bait & Tackle, the Riverdale Hotel for the use of the function room for the registration etc, The Welcome Inn for their kind hospitality feeding the anglers on both Saturday and Sunday evening. The landowners who kindly let us trek across their fields. And lastly to all the anglers who fished, without all of you this would not take place.
Ballybay Clubs 5 day event…
Running on the back of Ballybay Anglings 2 day event, 24 anglers registered for the first of the clubs 5 day event, with many top UK & Irish anglers in attendance. Registration took place at 9am at the Riverdale Ballybay, and once again Irish Bait and Tackle Limited were in attendance with all top quality fresh bait for the anglers.
Lakes being used are Bairds Shore, Bream Rock, Corkeeran, Roadside (Lough Eigsh) and Fuzzy Burgers (Lough Egish) with a 5 day rotation.
All anglers returned to the Welcome Inn this evening where once again refreshments were served by Mena.
Below are the top ten placings after day 1.
ANDY LIGHTBOWN 16.275KGS
BRIAN CHATTERTON 16.250KGS
JULIAN KENDRICK 15.475KGS
PAUL LEESE 14.285KGS
KEVIN JOHNSON 13.550KGS
TONY GREEN 13.175KGS
RORY O’NEILL 12.650KGS
DARREN CLORAN 11.475KGS
LIAM O’BRIEN 11.250KGS
MICK CARR 10.225KGS
Total weight caught today was just over 220kgs.
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Ballybay Angling is a well established match angling club, with membership growing each year.
We either run or fish in other competitions virtually every weekend of the year, all our matches that we run
are open to all anglers. We run a successful 2 day match every year during the month of July, with entries growing in this each year. We also hold an annual match with the Fishmaniak Fishing Club, which is one of the matches we look forward to each year.
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