Shane from the Rebel County SAC reports on a great trip to Cobh…

Saturday 27th of January saw the Rebels head to Cobh in the hopes of good numbers of fish. As usual Cobh always looks after the REBELS. On arrival, and great to see, I must applaud which ever body is in charge of keeping the walk way spotless and in good order. It is a very busy amenity with all sorts from walkers/dog walkers, cyclists, anglers, photographers etc. and one would expect to find some sort of build up of rubbish or sign of neglect with that amount of traffic, but it seems to work beautifully. And as we always do a rubbish walk before and after each comp we could not improve on it on arrival, and with the club fishing a lot of beach venues we always come away with bags of rubbish, especially after a storm but this was a first, well done COBH.

Back to the match. First off the mark with a whiting was KIERAN RYAN who was back with a bang for his first comp in a long while and meant business. Next call can only be mentioned as a flurry as anglers simultaneously brought in single, double and triple shots across the line, all from the go on first cast’s. The first offerings consisted of whiting, dab, dog fish and there were fish if not bites on every cast for most of the night apart from a few certain short windows when some areas switched on and off.

A notable catch from the first cast was to be the biggest whiting of the evening. Up and coming angler NIALL FORREST had a 38cm chunky whiting on a mackerel bait, and new member John mcsweeny had the only conger eel . Just after dusk some anglers cards were in the teens and everybody had caught fish at this stage. And as usual a nicely coloured lobster put in an appearance and we have never fished Cobh with out at least getting one on our comps over the years amongst all sorts of wonders.

Back on the front line of the match as it bottle necked down, we had 5 or 6 guys in the running and on 20 or more fish at this stage. Right in the middle of it was one of our newest members COLIN DINEEN putting in a great performance for his debut with the club and had no problem keeping in with the pace on the day. Battling on for the win were Colin , Jim Cotter, Jacob Murphy, Kieran Ryan, Niall Forrest, Noah TAHRAN, Rad and VJ , but in the end they’re could only be one winner.

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The whistle was blown at 10pm and cards were collected. While scores are being tallied up, 2 members commenced on a final rubbish walk/check to ensure nothing is left behind and the place is as we left it , if not improved. It’s something we think all angler’s should take seriously and do they’re bit as they go along, and not just as a club!

On the day there was well over 300 fish caught and served it’s purpose of putting the lad’s through they’re paces with a bit of speed fishing. There was 19 anglers in attendance on the comp as some guy’s had to drop out last minute, but all enjoyed it immensely, especially our newest members JOHN MCSWEENY, COLIN DINEEN AND MARCIN, WELCOME LAD’S 🎣👍.

Results

The top 7 places on the day were !!

1ST PLACE : JIM COTTER 699 POINTS🏆
2ND PLACE : NIALL FORREST 673 POINTS🏆
3RD PLACE : JACOB MURPHY 649 POINTS 🏆
4TH PLACE : NOAH TAHRAN 608 POINTS 🎣
5TH PLACE : COLIN DINEEN 566 POINTS 🎣
6TH PLACE : VJ BRONC 338 POINTS 🎣
7TH PLACE : KIERAN RYAN 321 POINTS 🎣

WELL DONE LAD’S , AND ALL WHO TOOK PART

BAITS ON THE DAY WERE MACKEREL , LUG , SANDEEL , RAZOR CLAM , RAG WORM AND BLACK LUG !!

Thanks again to all who took part , it was an enjoyable , very well ran competition , producing well over 300 fish , and COBH once again looked after her own.  UP THE REBEL’S CATCH YE ON THE NEXT ONE

Go fishing…

Our next comp is in 2 weeks time bringing us back to the Youghal area to make the most of the few different migratory winter species in the area before they push off shore after spring, and hopefully get to introduce you to some more of our new members on the list due to start out. Thanks to all who follow and support us on our journey through the match scene as we try to keep you up to date with comp reports, and the odd catch report across each season including our species hunt.

Join the club…

Rebels SAC are based in Cork and are are always happy to welcome new members.

The REBEL COUNTY SEA ANGLERS will be open for membership through out the year and we can be contacted on mobile 083 0198017, what’s app , messenger , fbook , and Instagram. Catch you on the next one ……… UP THE REBELS

Get in touch via their Facebook page at

https://www.facebook.com/rebelcountyseaanglingclub/

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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