Paul McLoughlin was in touch with a report from Naas & District Anglers latest match on the River Barrow.
Today’s John Prescott Memorial match was held on the River Barrow at Carlow with 35 anglers pulling from the draw bag.
It was a match on a very clear and slow river and it turned out fish were held up in pockets on the river.
I battled with Gary Doyle on the next peg for the first 2 hours going fish for fish until suddenly I couldn’t get another bite and it stayed like that with the last 3 hours only produced an odd fish for me and Gary stayed catching until the end. I felt I had 6 kg and Gary had around 10 which turned out to be 7 and 11 at the scales. We thought we were 1 and 2 but little did we know that 2 times winner David McNiece had 8 kg of waggler caught fish and Decky Walsh had blitzed the Knockbeg section with 12kg.
The final whistle at 4 pm saw sections going to
Eddie Long
James Foley
Austin Conway
Kuba Kawalerski
John Jurj
Adrian Bus
Padraig O’Riordan
The top of the leaderboard saw my
7.370kg take 4th place.
Next was David McNeice with 8.850kg in 3rd
Second place was an excellent 11.380 from local man Gary Doyle.
This years name on the trophy was Decky Walsh with an outstanding catch of 12.770kg from the middle of Knockbeg section.
A big special thanks to the lads that cleared swims Andrius and Jimmy Kelly and to all at Naas and District Anglers who helped make the match happen.
Special mention to Billy O’Neill from Waterways Ireland for granting secure access to the match length, and massive thanks to Waterways Ireland for the clearing of the banks and repairing the towpath. Without their help the event could not take place.
Big thanks to Éire Óg Carlow GAA for hosting us for the draw and presentation.
Finally to Rosaleen Prescott for her continued support and attending the prize giving. I’m sure John was looking down at us and would love to be there having the craic with us.
Well done to all the winners and many thanks to all that participated.
Naas & District Anglers
The New Naas & District Anglers Club was set up on the 31 August 2012. Our Club is a Social club. The waters around Naas are Home to brown trout ,salmon,eels, pike, perch, bream, rudd, tench. Naas and District Anglers are dedicated towards getting kids involved in the sport of angling.
Club Members are responsible for restocking and ensuring that all angling byelaws are complied with.
Membership of the club is always open and we welcome new members with open arms.
