Newbridge District Pike Anglers Report:
Well we finally managed to get back to what we love after nearly 4 months away from competitions so we decided to make up for lost time by fishing for 30 hrs and had 2 competitions within this 30 hrs so our 1st comp on day 1 was from 12 noon Saturday to 12 midnight and Day 2 was from midnight to 4pm Sunday making this 30hrs in total and what a great weekend it was with great banter and craic as always. We had 21 members make this trip and in total we had 154 pike caught and released over the weekend with some super bags produced by some members. I would also like to thank all members who made the trip so full results are as follows:
Day 1 results and winner of Milltown Cup is
1st Eugene Mc Cabe 8.5 hf 32.3 bag
2nd Dave Murphy 4.14hf 42.6 bag
3rd Dan O’Reilly 7.12 hf 36.3 bag
In total 68 pike caught and released over Day1
Day 2 results and winner of Gingerstown Cup
1st Ray Collopy 9.12hf 65.2 bag
2nd Kevin Foley 7.1 hf 62.2 bag
3rd David Delaney 6.4 hf 24.4 bag
In total 84 pike caught and released