Carrick Beach & Rockers SAC are back again with another great shore angling report, this time from Waterfoot Beach…
Sunday the 23rd February saw leg 2 of our monthly masters league. Originally penned in for Glenarm beach, the continued growth and success of our club meant that we had too many members intending to fish this match and plans were made for a switch of venue to Waterfoot beach.
The weather forecast was looking a little ropey to say the least. High winds were forecast for the day but as the day approached the predicted speeds gradually dropped (a little). On the drive to the newly selected venue the coast didn’t look too bad, the strong winds had blown the water flat on Glenarm, Ballygalley, Drains Bay etc.
Arriving at the car park the sea was again flat with just the usual 2-3 waves breaking in close and lapping the shore. Conditions were still windy but down on the beach itself, not unbearable for the 15 members, 2 guests, 2 juniors who’d fish the match.
Rods were cast out at 12pm and instantly the majority of anglers were into fish with some nice little flounders and undersized turbot along the length of the competition. Signs were looking good for a high scoring match, but signs can be deceiving. About 2 hours in and the fishing almost completely died off for all anglers. The fast start seemed a long away in the past as anglers tried everything they could think of with very little success for the last 3 hours of the match.
All too quickly, (although not quickly enough for some) it was lines up time and it was back to the car park to see who winkled out the most fish. In the end there were there were 46 flounder and 1 plaice caught between us.
Results
Seniors
1st A. Nelson 153pts
2nd S. Bradley 137pts
3rd N. MaWhinney 108pts
4th B. Laughlin 94pts
5th M. McMurty 90pts
Longest fish B.Laughlin with 29cm Flounder
Superpool was, for the 2nd month in a row a bit of a face slap moment when the lucky category was drawn out as most fish as the angler that caught the most fish failed to enter this months super pool so the prize money dropped down to 2nd place and was won by S.Bradley with most fish (7 fish) Nelson had caught 8
Juniors
1st M. Dollery
2nd L. Finlay
It’s great to see new juniors joining and doing well, with young Miya even finding the time to teach Chris how to catch a few fish.
Would like to say well done to all who fished yesterday, especially our juniors.
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Carrick Beach and Rockers SAC was established in 1995 as part of the IFSA. The club is a mixture of sea match fishing and pleasure fishing all over Northern Ireland and Ireland.
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