The report below was summarised from the South Shore SAC Facebook Page:
The inaugural South Shore SAC Winter Pairs Competition was held on Sunday, 28th December, at Kilgorman Beach. With light easterly winds and favourable conditions, 20 pairs took part, travelling from both north and south to support the event.
Fishing was promising from the start, with flounders taken close in and whiting found by those casting further. Ryan Blair and Drew Ferguson quickly set the pace on Peg 17, catching consistently, while strong performances were also reported from Team Ryan. Elsewhere, catches were patchy, consisting mainly of small bass, flounders, whiting, dabs, and pup spurdogs.
As darkness fell, spurdogs appeared in numbers, and the final hour and a half produced fast and hectic fishing, with some pairs landing up to 15 fish.
Ryan Blair and Drew Ferguson won the competition with a total of more than 1,000 points. Gary and Tony Foster finished second, followed by Eric Gasparro and Cian Corcoran in third. Stephen O’Reilly and Thomas Markey placed a very close fourth, just one point behind third.
