Saturday 23 March saw leg 3 of our shore league sponsored by Daiwa. The planned venue was Cushendun but as there was already a club match taking place on it, the decision was taken to fish the town end of Waterfoot beach. It was a tough night weather wise and also with a lot of weed and debris in the tide from the river. A decision was also made to only fish four hours due to this and the fact that the top pegs were close to being pushed off the beach by the incoming tide.
Here's our recorders report.
Saturday 23 March
Venue: Waterfoot (Town end) 1800-2200hrs
Tide: Fishing full flood
Weather/sea-state: minimal surf but horrendous north westerlies were pushing the tide left to right along with weed and debris from the river. Intermittent hail and rain bursts made fishing "difficult".
Species caught: flounder, plaice, rockling and coalie.
Notes: a typical March nights angling. Very scratchy though the low pegs held better numbers of fish in the gulley.
Zone A
1st Harry McKee 22 fish 559pts
2nd Colin Reilly 18 fish 452pts
3rd Drew Ferguson 15 fish 387pts
4th Stephen Hodge 14 fish 350pts
Zone B
1st Barry Platt 12 fish 321pts
2nd Harry Jr 9 fish 229pts
3rd Ronnie Andrews 7 fish 177pts
4th Paddy O'boyle 5 fish 132pts
Longest flat 27cm flounder Harry Jr
Longest round (tied) 22cm coalie Ali Wall, Harry Snr, Drew Ferguson.
Cash was paid for 1st, 2nd and longest fish.
Tackle from Daiwa was given for 3rd and 4th places.
