Transition Year students Nikita Greidans and Jack Keenahan are working together at Blackwood Bait and Tackle. As part of their Transition Year they are supplying reports to the Irish Angling Update…
We held a coarse match at Southside Angling Resort in Carlow, with the help of Dan
O’Neill, with 12 participants taking part.
Start of the match
We all in at 10 o’clock and the match began very slowly with very few anglers catching
apart from a few rudd, roach and perch. Soon after, people began catching rainbow trout
which didn’t count for weight as they were a predatory species.
Middle of the Match
At 2 o’clock, each trout counted for 1lb towards the total weight. People’s weight cards
slowly got higher. It was around this time I took a break from the match and went to fly fish with Dan O’Neill who taught me to roll cast and spey cast. With this help, I caught a small rainbow trout on his Caidence fly rod.
End of the Match
At 4 o’clock, we called all out and we weighed everyone’s bag, with the winner having a bag with 17lbs, winning a €200 guided trip with Dan O’Neill himself.
My Match Experience
This was my first ever match and I enjoyed it a lot. I started the day on a method feeder
micro pellet, an 8mm marzipan pop up on a hair rig, and a size 10 hook. I caught three
rainbow trout doing this. Unfortunately, this was before 2 o’clock so they didn’t count
towards anything, but I still enjoyed the experience. The lake itself was very nice. I might
return to this lake to flyfish for trout. In the coming weeks, we will be holding a demo for
coarse fishing, touching on the method/hybrid feeder and pole fishing techniques
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