Pete Davis of West Cork and District SAC on the club’s 2nd match of the year, where the fished the Wall at Monkstown…
The Monkstown Wall was the venue for our second club match of the year on Sunday evening. Although it’s not the great venue it once was, it still throws up decent numbers of good size Whiting.
5pm – 9pm was the match time and fish made an appearance from the first cast. The first hour was frantic. Sean Healy and Troy Francis were the early leader’s both had 15+ fish on their match cards.
Low tide came into play in the second hour and the fishing slowed up but as soon as it turned the fish came back on. Better quality 30cm+ Whiting now started coming over the wall. Jason Convery had a fine 38cm Whiting which would eventually go on and win the round fish pool, pipping Tom Collins’ 37cm pipe fish. David Kennedy was very unlucky not to win the pools unfortunately for him he lost a big conger at the edge of the wall.
The third and fourth hour of the match was like the first. JP Molloy after a slow first 3 hour piled the pressure on the leaders and had an impressive 19 fish in the last hour to take second place. Troy Francis was the winner with 43 fish.
Results
Well done Troy on the win and well done on your third place finish at the winter beach festival. An excellent result.
Alan O Dowling finished in third place with 30 fish. Well done Alan. The flat fish pool was won by Mark O Sullivan in his last cast with a 27cm Dab.
- 1st Troy Francis 43 fish 1321pts
- 2nd JP Molloy 39 fish 993pts
- 3rd Alan O Dowling 30 fish 935pts
- 4th Sean Healy 31 fish 881 pts
- 5th Stephen O Donovan 31 fish 870pts
Flat fish pool
- Mark O’Sullivan 27cm Dab
Round fish pool
- Jason Convery 38cm Whiting
Thank you to Barry O Rourke for walking the venue after the match checking for any litter and a big thank you to the angler’s leaving the venue spotless as usual. Species on the night consisted of whiting, dabs, poor cod, pouting, Lsd, pipefish,goby and rockling.
Go fishing…
Next up for us is something new we are going to try out , it’s a bait supplied midweek league, this is an open competition to all IFSA members, more information is available on the WCAD Midweek League Facebook group , contact us on messenger if you would like to join up.
Best wishes all!
Pete Davis
West Cork and District Sea Angling Club
All about West Cork and District SAC…
The club was formed on march 19th 2009, in the small picturesque harbour town of Kinsale County Cork. We’re an inclusive club, this can be seen in our membership profile; from anglers who are new to match fishing all the way up to members of the Irish World Shore Team 2010, two of which are in the club! The club holds circa 10 competitions per year, members are encouraged to practice a catch and release policy in the interests of conservation. Anybody wishing to join our club is always welcome, just use the contact us page and we will give prospective members full details.
Web: http://westcorkanddistrict.webs.com/
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