Young gun shows how it’s done in Newbridge & District Anglers pike competition

Last weekend saw our members back on the bank, and with us still playing catch up on our competitions, we decided to fish another 2 comps over the weekend. We had a great turnout and also had some new members join so late in the year so welcome to our new members. I would like to say a big thank you to the staff at ESB in Ardnacrusha and also to Inland Fisheries Ireland for allowing us access to Saturday’s venue, which was a river.

The river was a little high and fishing was very patchy with some sections producing no fish but that’s fishing I suppose. In the end, 39 pike were caught and released up to 8lb 2oz with reports of a couple of nice fish lost also. We had some members stay at a nearby hotel and some chose to bivy up as venues for the Sunday competition were several small lakes. We didn’t have much info on them so we just said we would fish it and see, and really only 1 lake fished well, producing a couple of doubles to 16lb. In total 19 pike were caught and released. Well done to one of our youngest adult members Mr Carl O Reilly showed us how it was done this weekend with picking up not only his 1st win in the club but also won both days back to back so huge well done Carl well deserved buddy.

Also last weekend saw the 4th quarter of our mini-league finish so well done to all our winners I will post at the bottom of the report.