Terry O Donovan reports on the West Cork and District SAC match at Ballyquin …
17 August 2020: The club was back out again on Saturday evening last making the annual pilgrimage to West Waterford to fish Ballyquin beach.
16 anglers made the journey East including new members Seamus McShane, his son Momo, as well as returning junior angler Scott McShane. Another new member joining the ranks was junior angler Liam Davis who was pegged next to his dad Pete for the evening. For the first time in the club’s history 4 junior anglers fished the match along side their guardians and some promising anglers for the future of the sport amongst them.
The winds were Easterly, fishing a slack tide on the ebb made for a slow evening. Weavers and small turbot were being caught in ones along the beach from the first casts but despite this the action dried up fast enough. Pete Davis on peg 9 and his son Liam were leading the pack from the word go and didn’t drop the ball all night long. Nothing remarkable in terms of size or species to report for the night. The odd dog kept hopes alive of a high scoring match but this didn’t materialise.
At the end it finished up with Team Davis wrapping up the both the senior and juniors in comfortable fashion with 19 fish between them which made up 1/3 of the catch total for the entire night.
Senior:
- 1st. Pete Davis 12 fish
- 2nd. Steven Hurley 5 fish
- 3rd. Terry O Donovan 4 fish
- 4th Jp Molloy
- 5th Steven Sod O Donovan
- 6th Sean Og Mcshane
- 7th Mick Coleman
- 8th James Kiniry
- 9th John Joyce
- 10th Tom Collins/ Colin O Sullivan
Juniors:
- 1st Liam Davis 7 fish
- 2nd Evan Collins 5 fish
- 3rd Scott Mcshane
- 4th Momo Mcshane
Biggest flat fish went to Evan Collins for a 30cm Flounder
Biggest round went to Sod for a 35cm Conger eel. Well done to the two lads scooping a nice few bucks for their efforts.
A total of 54 fish were caught and catches were made up of Weavers, Dogs, Turbot, Flounder and Conger eel.
Terry O’Donovan
West Cork and District Sea Angling Club
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