What a great day Sunday was!!! Not only was the weather great but the fishing was great as well....and this despite an easterly wind blowing; so much for the old adage '...when the winds blow from the east....'25 anglers turned out to fish and were whisked off to the fishing grounds in Deep Hole by the Wreck Hunter, Naomh Cartha, & Lagosta II of the Cork Harbour fleet. One of those fishing was Cobh SAC angler George Stockley who at 81 years of age put many younger anglers to shame. As Cobh SAC Treasurer, Pat O' Shea, reports '...George and I have been fishing together for over 40 years and once again George has put me to the sword, so as to speak. Both of us were fishing together on the Lagosta II and George finished up with 86 fish to my 84. Mind you I wasn't the only one shown up; the only two on board with more fish than George were Irish Home Nations Team captain, John Dennehy, and local angler Danny Kane, who last year was fishing for a place in the National Boat Team in the Fish-Offs. That'll show you how skilled George is as an angler. Well done George!!!'
George is pictured in the first picture above with one of the fine whiting he caught on the day. Now compared to our last two competitions in January and February the fishing was much better; not that the fishing wasn't bad for these two either. A total of 1578 countable fish were caught; that's an average of 63 fish per angler. Wow!
The breakdown of fish were; 1239 whiting, 272 dabs, 7 grey gurnard, 5 tub gurnard, 37 lsd, 2 pouting, 10 poor cod, 3 plaice, 2 flounder, and 1 scorpion fish. As was the case in February, there were mackeral caught on all of the boats. However, they weren't as prolific as they had been in that competition.
Well done, once again, to John Dennehy of Cork, who for the second month on the trot won the competition. John is currently the captain of the Ireland Home Nation Boat Angling team, and with good reason. Well done John!!!
The full results are as follow:
1. John Dennehy, 112 fish, 1515 pts, 100.0%
2. Slywester Skowronski, 95 fish, 1358 pts, 100.0%
3. Martin Perryman, 71 fish, 980 pts, 100.0%
4. Pat Wright, 90 fish, 1263 pts, 93.0%
5. Danny Kane, 97 fish, 1318 pts, 87.0%
6. Ger Brady, 85 fish, 1163 pts, 85.6%
7. Anthony Austin, 84 fish, 1163 pts, 85.6%
8. James Brandon, 58 fish, 815 pts, 83.2%
9. Conor Purcell, 58 fish, 809 pts, 82.6%
10. George Stockley, 86 fish, 1172 pts, 77.4%
11. Pat O' Shea, 84 fish, 1150 pts, 75.9%
12. Sandra O' Shea, 50 fish, 714 pts, 72.9%
13. Tomasz Kujawa, 44 fish, 649 pts, 66.2%
14. Rob Kelly, 72 fish, 991 pts, 65.4%
15. Zoltan Kowacs, 69 fish, 959 pts, 63.3%
16. Noel Kavanagh, 62 fish, 859 pts, 63.3%
17. John Fitzgerald, 59 fish, 819 pts, 60.3%
18. Eddie Deasy, 60 fish, 834 pts, 55.0%
19. John O' Reilly, 52 fish, 745 pts, 54.9%
20. Bobby Crebor, 35 fish, 524 pts, 53.5%
21. Martin Breecher, 50 fish, 697 pts, 46.0%
22. Steve Bray, 38 fish, 541 pts, 39.8%
23. Donnacha O'Connell, 24 fish, 376 pts, 38.4%
24. Deirdre Murphy, 23 fish, 329 pts, 33.6%
25. Cian Ryan, 20 fish, 271 pts, 27.7%
The next light line competition is on Sunday 22nd April. If you'd fancy fishing this then give Danny Kane a buzz on 086 - 8161946 or Mary Geary on 021 - 4812167 (or on email on seaangling@esatclear.ie).
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