Club League so far in 2009

We have fished 5 matches so far this year, the lat of which was today at Parkyfaherty. Martin Davitt has all the results but so far the league is tight enough with different winners for almost every match.

The fishing has been hard though. Our first match on the Joinery went well and as usual our venues fish well in winter and in mid summer the fishing is poor.

So far:

Match 1 Joinery - Won by Arunas 8.560 kilo

Match 2 (changed from Ross Lake to Parkyfaherty) Won by Arunas again

Match 3 Fished as part of the 2 day Roscommon Festival on the suck in Athleague - Won by Rory Dunne

Match 4 Ryans shore - won by Doni McWeeney

Match 5 Parkyfaherty - Won by Jason Leavy

Match 6 is scheduled for lough Down but may be changed as access is difficult and some trimming needs to be done.

So far I have run 3 junior tuitions - one on Ross Lake with 14 anglers and EVERYONE blanked despite fishing hard and doing their best. A disaster and the litter was a disgrace.

The second tuition was part of fisheries awareness week and was on the canal in town. Unfortunately the Roach that move in there every summer had not arrived and the 10 anglers caught only 1 trout between them.

Tuition 3 was on Ryans shore before the match we had scheduled and a few fish were caught, mostly small hybrids.

There have been good turnouts from the juniors this year with a good few sticking at it and improving. But with the fishing so difficult its hard for them to see the improvements. I can see that they are getting more confident though.

Arunas has been bagging up in Anglegrove in Woodford as usual and did some big weights there early in the summer. Pictures to follow but I believe he officially has the record there for the largest bag of fish caught in a session.

Dale and Dave are also doing well fishing strange unknown venues all over the west that they wont tell us about and catching lots of bream and tench.

More to follow when we get some exact weights off Martin but as far as I can tell I am winning the league with Arunas in second. However when we drop our worst results (best 7 results count) I think Arunas may be ahead.

Other news is that 5 club members are applying to the Fishery Board to be appointed as water keepers and hopefully this will help us in addressing some of the illegal fishing and littering problems that are very prevalent at the moment.