Lough Ree International Pike Festival and World Cup organisers report on another hugely successful competition:
Results – Top 10 each day
Friday 12th April 2019
1st. 109.75cm Boat 15 Joe McDermott & Pat Healy – €1000
2nd 104.50cm Boat 31 Dermot O’Neill & Rob Neilan – €800
3rd 102.25cm Boat 67 Paul Sylvester & Garrett Kelly – €700
4th 101.75 Boat 39 Krzystof Sibiga & Lukasz Wdowiah – €600
5th 101.50cm Boat 46 Donal Wilson, Jason Flanagan & Niall Wilson – €500
6th 99.00cm Boat 73 Rafal Pelc & Igor Klosowski – €400
7th 94.25cm Boat 26 Blaine Carberry & Paddy O’Neill – €300
8th 94.00cm Boat 58 Radoslaw Bobrzyk & Marcin Konopczynski – €200
9th 93.25cm Boat 78 Tomasz Kurman & Jacek Gorny – €150
10th 92.00cm Boat 01 Neil Cooney & Vic Nusra – €100
Thursday 11th April 2019
1st. 113.50cm – Boat 78 Tomasz Kurman & Jacek Gorny – €1000
Jnt 2nd 110.00cm – Boat 71 Lukasz Szuminski & Gregorz Strzelec – €750
Jnt 2nd 110.00cm – Boat14 Noel McCaffrey & James Butler – €750
4th 108.50 – Boat 14 Noel McCaffrey & James Butler – €600
5th 108.00cm – Boat 33 Dr Michael Leifer & Ernst Simnet – €500
6th 107.50cm – Boat 37 Gerry O’Brien & John Hess – €400
7th 107.00cm – Boat 26 Blaine Carberry & Paddy O’Neill €300
8th 106.50cm – Boat 13 Martin McCaffrey & Noel Monaghan – €200
9th 106.00cm – Boat 35 Andrew Wright & Diarmuid Smyth – €150
10th 105.00cm – Boat 78 Tomasz Kurman & Jacek Gorny – €100
Wednesday 10th April 2019
1st – 112.00cm – Boat 73 Rafal Pelc & Igor Klosowski – €1000
2nd – 106.25cm – Boat 78 Tomasz Kurman & Jacek Gorny – €800
3rd – 105.75cm – Boat 01 Neil Cooney & Vic Nursa – €700
4th – 105.00cm – Boat 15 Joe McDermott & Pat Healy – €600
5th – 104.00cm – Boat 50 Alan Cully & Keith Gleeson – €500
6th 102.25cm – Boat 07 Stephen Turner & Kevin Geoghegan – €400
Jnt 7th 101.75 cm – Boat 65 James Greene & James Greene Junior – €250
Jnt 7th 101.75cm – Boat 39 Krzystof Sibiga & Lucas Wdowiah – €250
Jnt 9th 101.25cm – Boat 58 Radoslaw Bobrzyk & Marcin Konopczynski – €125
Jnt 9th 101.25cm – Boat 25 Patrick O’Regan & Jonathon Stapleton – €125
Single Longest Pike of The Festival 2019
113.50cm – Boat 78 Tomasz Kurman & Jacek Gorny – €1000
World Cup 2019
112.000cm + 102.50cm + 99.00cm = 313.50cm
Rafal Pelc & Igor Klosowski = €1000
We want to thank all the anglers who took part in the Festival and made it a hugely successful and enjoyable event. It is always great to see the level of camaraderie among the anglers despite the fact that you are in competition against each other, some of the banter would have you in stitches and yet everybody always looks out for everybody else.
A big thank you to Arnold, Oisin and the lads from Inland Fisheries Ireland who were on hand to prevent the spread of invasive species as well as checking the boats to make sure that everything was above board bait wise. They were also on the lake keeping an eye out and were on hand to help an angler who broke down and needed to be rescued.
Thank you also to the venues we used, Mick Murphy at the Coosan Tavern, Tom and Pascal at the Bounty Bar and Carita at the Lough Ree Inn. Special thanks to Carita who baked a special cake to mark the 10th anniversary of the Festival.
Thanks also to Westmeath County Council who each year sponsor the event which makes it possible to run at this level.
Thanks to Brian Connaughton of Wildhunter Athlone & Galway and Savage Gear for providing the hats that everybody received yesterday and the rods that were raffled last night.
We look forward to seeing you all again next year and the dates to put in your diary are the 22nd, 23rd and 24th April 2020.