This report from the organisers of Ireland’s FeederKing 2024:
Saturday, September 21st, was the first day of the Ireland’s FeederKing final which was held on Annaherrin and Lough Sillan in Cavan. Fishing was good on Sillan, with Tony Hopkins winning the day with roach and a total weight of 19.000kg.
Second was Richard Pratt with another roach net of 15.375 kg, while Rory Dunne made up the top 3 on Sillan with a weight of 14.050kg
Annaherrin didn’t fish as well as it did for the previous day’s practice match and Nick Seddon did best with 7.950kg of small skimmers. Darren Fairhurst was second on the lake with a mixed bag of 7.460kg. Charlie Richards was 3rd on Annaherrin with a weight of 6.380kg made up of skimmers, roach and odd perch.
Sunday, September 22nd, was the second day of the Feederking Final and what a day it was. Young Charlie Richards had a very impressive weight of 23.990kg of skimmers on the deeps to take the crown of Irelands Feederking champion 2024! He had just over 30kg overall to win the event by 5kg.
It is unbelievable what this very talented young angler has won in his short angling career to date and he was deserving of the €4,000 he collected in winning the event.
Rimantas Kondrakas caught an unbelievable 251 fish to weigh 21.740kg on the deeps to take second place overall and collect €1,800. Rimantas had a combined weight of 25.480kg.
Tony Hopkins had 5.700kg today on Annaherrin and this give him 3rd Overall with a combined weight over the 2 days of 24.800kg
RESULTS OF FEEDERKING 2024
- 1ST Charlie Richards 30.370kg (€4000)
- 2ND Rimantas Kondrakas 25.480kg (€1800)
- 3RD Tony Hopkins 24.800kg(€1200)
- 4th Darren Fairhurst 23.340kg (€900)
- 5th Nick Seddon 23.140kg(€700)
- 6th Richard pratt 21.875kg (€500)
- 7th Paul Leese 21.330kg (€400)
- 8th Robertas zilaitis 20.820kg (€300)
- 9th piotr Horbiński 20.400kg (€200)
- 10th Rory Dunne 20.200kg (€100)
- 11th Philip hartin 20.170kg
- 12th William Wheeler 19.500kg
- 13th Brenton Sweeney 17.330kg
- 14th Johnny Mckinley 16.375kg
- 15th Nick Howell 15.525kg
- 16th JP Molloy 15.500kg
- 17th Brian clarke 15.470kg
- 18th Adrian van de heer 14.300kg
- 19th Rory o Neil 14.175kg
- 20th Sean Tallon 13.275kg
- 21st Irmantas sriupsa 12.980kg
- 22nd Andy Butterfield 12.900kg
- 23rd Bruce Zhou 11.725kg
- 24th Paul Eyers 9.475kg
- 25th Mark Alcock 6.025kg
We would also like to acknowledge the support of our sponsors and organisers – without whom this event would not take place:
- Thanks to C. Gaughan Contractors limited for the sponsorship of the trophies and also to the Inland Fisheries Ireland for their continued support.
- Thanks to Peter Lynch for doing a great job transporting the gear on his boat.
- Thanks to all that helped, weighed in and organised qualifiers.
- Thanks to Johnny Mckinley for doing a great job printing the cheques.
- Thanks to the C/M Lakelands Committee who run this event, especially Darren and Paul.
It has certainly been a great event
