South Shore SAC report on their latest competition fished on Ennerielly North on 7th July…
July can be a strange month for shore angling with beaches usually full of humans wearing Speedos and bathing suits. Picking a venue in July or August can be a nightmare. We left picking a venue open to see what the weather would throw up closer to the day, it looked like it would be mixed and not to warm. Our initial choice of Roney beach was infested with spider crabs from reports earlier that week , so that beach was out.
The committee had a meeting on Wednesday and we decided that Ennerielly North would be our best bet.
Not many matches are fished on this beach anymore for reasons unknown, it probably because of access or safety of cars in the carpark.
The access was overgrown and looked like you wouldn’t get a trolly down, worry’s were proved unfounded as there was no problem getting down.
Now for the fishing, bright sunshine no wind clear water get that into your head, plus the fact that no one had match fished the beach in donkey years was a nightmare scenario. What to do ? Go out for whatever, stay short and fiddle around inside with small hooks or a bit of mix and match.
The sound man Rob Moore was the sharpest from the off and was into pup hounds every cast for the first hour while lads around him could only drool at his pup skills. The game was up for the rest of us in that zone as the pups fecked off somewhere else. Rob went on to blitz the zone, well done Rob.
Meanwhile in the other zone the great white Thomas Keogh was returning to form with a great result. He caught a nice smoothound of 88cm, he told me after that he was using hooks he bought on holidays called snap dragons and puts his catch down to the sharpness of these hooks. Thomas went on to win the zone and the overall, great result lad.
We were graced with a living legend on Sunday Keith “how are you” Stafford put in a rare appearance. Keith told me he was inundated with undersized Gurnard and couldn’t get a counter such was the pain on the day.
With our juniors resting after their bronze medal win on international duty down in Kerry we were juniorless. They put in a great performance in Kerry in tough conditions.
We had another new member join us on Sunday , he’s only a small lad so be gentle with him. Welcome Janis hope you have many years with the club.
A big thank you to Alan Flahive who was a big help dragging everyone’s trolley up the path off the beach, he must have been knackered after his hard work. What a gentleman…
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