Brendan O’Reilly reports that Sunday saw the start of Newgrange Active Angling and the Wee County trophies Cup and with 4 new lads joining this year it will add a little bit more competition. On Sunday 9 brave souls turned out for the start of the league and conditions turned very bad after a couple of hours, with high and very cold winds followed by plenty snow showers. The lake in Monaghan only produced 14 fish and they were all small.
Last years winner Luke Everard lost a good double figured fish early on and lost 2 more after that. Glen Finnegan was the first to hook up with Darren Kavanagh and Lloyd Lynch then catching fish. The over all winner of the first of leg was Lloyd Lynch 2nd Darren Kavanagh 3rd Glen Finnegan, Next outing 9th Feb.
Results are as follows
1st Lloyd Lynch, 2nd Darren Kavanagh and 3rd Glen Finnegan
