The overnight weather forecast was spot on and very strong winds gave way to brighter conditions by mid-morning. Day 2 of the Winter Shore Angling Festival was a complete turn around on conditions experienced by anglers on day 1 of the event. Sunshine replaced the overcast skies and a decrease in wind speed was welcomed by all. Temperatures were in and around 10 degrees and very mild and it looked like it was going to be a great fishing day!
The beaches at Clones (Kilgorman) and Courtown (Dodds Rocks), Co Wexford were the venues for day 2 of the festival and the water remained coloured. Fishing was from 12 till 5 and the tide was on the ebb during the whole of this 5 hour session. Most importantly the fishing did not disappoint.
From the “all in” fish were taken all along the beach at Kilgorman with some very nice flounder being taken. Other species included, whiting, codling, dogfish, rockling with some anglers hitting trebles on every cast. The fishing was fairly consistent on all of the sections throughout the day. Saul Page had circa twenty fish in around two hours and was getting consistent trebles throughout the session.
Fishing was reported to be excellent at the Courtown venues as well but we had to wait to see how the fishing there compared to that at Kilgorman.
The best flatfish today was a nice 36cm flounder taken by Shay O’Neill and a 34cm flounder taken by Kevin Lewis. The best round fish was a 63cm bullhuss taken by Gary Wood and a 42cm cod taken by Sean Ivory.
We look forward to the final day of fishing tomorrow and as usual it will be hard fought right to the all out tomorrow evening and will bring you the updates and results as soon as they are available.
Today’s results supplied by Michael Quinn and the organising committee are as follows.
Current Positions after Day 2
Individual Event
1st Thomas Hughes , 2nd Dave Roe, 3rd Harry McKee Jr, 4th James Ryan, 5th Ronnie McWilliams, 6th Chris Read, 7th Chris O’Sullivan
Two Man Team Event
1st Stewart Dewhurst and Dave Hutchinson, 2nd Gareth Gardner and Neil Cutler, 3rd Mick Mullane and C. Gallogley, 4th Steve Gargan and Matt White, 5th Dave Roe and Joe Byrne.
Four Man Team Event
1st Chris Isaac, Mike Hughes, Thomas Hughes and Gary Woods, 2nd Richard Yates, Saul Page, Chris Snow and Chris Clarke, 3rd Dean Quigley, Dave Roe, Joe Byrne and James Ryan, 4th Paul Coady, Alan Mulcahy, Mick Mullane and C. Gallogley
Super Pool Event
Saul Page, Ronnie McWilliams and Dave Roe.
Longest Flat Event
1 Shay O’Neill 36cm flounder, 2 Kevin Lewis 34cm flounder
Longest Round Event
1 Gary Wood 63cm bullhuss, 2 Sean Ivory 42cm cod.
