January Light Lines Comp - The Results

Cobh SAC's second Light Line Comp of the winter season got under way last Sunday 22nd January. There was a high demand for places and we nearly got three boats out. However, we didn't get quite enough and some anglers, unfortunately, had to stay ashore (among them Cobh SAC Treasurer, Pat O' Shea, and vice-Chairman, Danny Kane). If you intend to fish a Light Line Comp its imperative that you contact either Mary Geary at 021-4812167 or Danny Kane on 086-8161946 by the Tuesday evening leading upto the Comp.

In any case 16 anglers got out and fished onboard the John Boy and the Naomh Cartha. Although, there was a strong NW breeze at first, conditions settled down and it turned out to be a fine day. The anglers soon got in the swing of things and, although, the fishing wasn't as good as before Christmas, there was still plenty of fish to keep all the anglers occupied.

In total there were 588 fish caught, making it an average of 37 fish per angler. The breakdown was: - 348 whiting; 234 dabs; 1 lsd, 3 poor cod; 1 plaice; and 1 scorpion fish. The scorpion fish was a bit of a monster measuring just over 32 cms and weighing over 1lb. We've sent it off to the Irish Specimen Fish Committee in the hope that they may set up a specimen category for this fish.

The full results for the comp were:-

1. Martin Perryman, 98 Fish, 1392 pts, 100%

2. John Dennehy, 38 fish, 566 pts, 100%

3. Sylwester Skowronski, 29 fish, 415 pts, 73.3%

4. Tomasz Kujawa, 26 fish, 388 pts, 68.6%

5. Pat Condon, 24 fish, 350 pts, 61.8%

6. Zdzislam Banas, 23 fish, 323 pts, 57.1%

7. Ger Brady, 53 fish, 766 pts, 55.0%

8. Piotr Nowakowski, 21 fish, 303 pts, 53.5%

9. Rob Kelly, 48 fish, 727 pts, 52.2%

10. Cian Ryan, 47 fish, 683 pts, 49.1%

11. Grzegorz Kmiecik, 19 fish, 277 pts, 48.9%

12. Sandra O'Shea, 44 fish, 644 pts, 46.3%

13. Noel Kavanagh, 46 fish, 640 pts, 46.0%

14. Donnacha O' Connell, 29 fish, 433 pts, 31.1%

15. Eric O' Neill, 31 fish, 429 pts, 30.8%

16. Ruud Boelhower, 12 fish, 188 pts, 13.5%

The next Comp is on Sunday 19th February 2012. Remember to book early by contacting Danny or Mary on the numbers listed above!!!