Tough fishing on the Bann for St Patricks 2 Day match

The Bann Bonanza Festival reports on the rivers St. Patrick’s Day 2 day Match…

The St. Patrick’s 2 day match proved to be a difficult match with high water levels affecting the catches. Only 8 people made it to fish the match and after a chat at the draw between all the anglers we decided to try fishing a section in the low 20s and another in the high 80s. Feeder proved to be the only way to go and even at a short chuck it was still taking 50-60 to hold. Those that tried the pole had to use 50g flat floats. Wind, rain, weed, sunshine we had it all. Not forgetting the cormorants of course.

Despite all this the anglers didn’t complain and the craic was great. Tommy wasn’t in the best of form though after losing 3 whole pounds to Niall in 3 days. Well done to Gary Radcliffe who turned things around on day 2 and managed to take top honours for the match, closely followed by Ron Jordan in 2nd and making up the top 3 was the ever consistent Johnny Keith.