Results of Match 3, Old Shebeen, River Shannon, Portumna

Great turnout for this match, both by juniors and seniors. I think we were all hoping to bag up but it was not to be as the results show.

Seniors
1st J Leavy 820 gr Peg 14 20 points Total Points so far 54
2nd Arunas Mlecka 590 gr Peg 15 19 points Tot points 20
3rd Liam Bedord 440 gr peg 3 18 points Tot Points 46
4th C Hughes 310 gr Peg 19 17 points Tot points 57
5th S Dunne 300 gr Peg 11 16 points tot points 33
6th B Cassidy 240 gr Peg 10 15 points Tot points 50
7th Medo Sultan 140 gr (Junior) 14 points Peg 12 Tot 24
8th R Bedford 130 gr Peg 20 13 points Tot points 43
9th D McWeeney 50 gr Peg 17 12 points Tot points 49
Did Not Weigh Alan Boreham, Rory Dunne, Malcolm Bedford : Nil Pois

Juniors
1st Liam Bedford 440 gr peg 3 Tot Points 46
2nd Medo Sultan 140 gr Peg 12 Tot Points 24
DNW Paul Boreham, Mark Powell, Glen Mannion, Michael Lawlor, Colin Cronin, Michael Mannion, Daniel Whelan : Nil Pois


Next match scheduled for the 10th June, Rooskey but may have to be changed due to venue being booked. Possibly changed to either 3rd June or 17th, up to the anglers to decide what suits majority.

If we catch 1 carp there each we will double or triple the total from this match.
It can only get better.

Results of Galway Coarse Angling Club Match 2 Ross Lake

SENIORS
1st Cathal Hughes 3 kilo 150gr Peg 3
2nd Donal McWeeney 3kilo 100 gr Peg 15
3rd Bill Cassisdy 1 kilo 140 gr Peg 5
4th Richard Bedford 930gr Peg 11
5th Jason Leavy 780 gr Peg 9
6th Martin Davitt 550 gr Peg 8
7th Malcolm Bedford 320 gr Peg 13
DNW Rory Dunne Peg 12
DNW Shane Dunne Peg 7

JUNIORS
1st Liam Bedford 250 gr Peg 10
2nd Daniel Whelan 170gr Peg 6
3rd Medo Sultan 160 gr Peg 14
DNW Mark Powell Peg 16
DNW Barry Loughnane Peg 4

As you can see a very hard match, blew a gale all day, lots of pole breakages and very few fish.

The top anglers coming out of this match are:

1. Cathal 40 points
2. Donal 37
3. Bill 35
4. Jason 34
5. Richard 30
6. Liam and Malcolm, liam is ahead on weight, both on 28 points
7. Martin 26
8. Shane 17
9. Alex 13
10. Daniel 11
11. Medo 10

GALWAY COARSE ANGLING ASSOCATION
Result after 1st match Joinery 11-03-07
Member Peg Kilos Grms Points
Seniors
HUGHES Cathal 6 14 260 20

LEAVY Jason 4 11 510 19

MC WEENEY Doni 7 11 430 18

CASSIDY Bill 8 7 700 17

BEDFORD Malcolm 2 3 840 15

BEDFORD Richard 10 3 550 14

DAVITT Martin 9 1 200 12

BRADY Harry

DUNNE Rory

DUNNE Shane

MARRABLE Alan

SPOKES David


Golden Peg 8 €7.00

Largest Fish
Roach Kg Grms
BEDFORD Liam 0 460

Juniors Peg Kilos Grms Points
BEDFORD Liam 3 6 940 16

DAINTY Alex 1 1 600 13

LAWLOR Michael 11 0

LOUGHNANE Barry

POWELL Mark 5 0

SULTAN Medo 12 0

Galway Coarse Angling

Map showing most of the lakes in and around Moycullen, near Galway City

Galway Coarse Angling Association Match Calendar

1) 11th March Joinery
2) 15th April Ross Lake
3) 13th May River Shannon, to be confirmed nearer date
4) 10th June Rooskey, Club fee used for entry
5) 15th July Ryans Shore
6) 12th August Lough Parkyfaherty
7) 2nd September Away Match, To be confirmed
8) 30th September Joinery
9) 4th November Lough Down
10) 25th November Joinery

For more info email: casperjah@yahoo.co.uk

Foroige

Foroige is the National Youth Development Organisation. Foroige operates voluntary run youth clubs with an emphasis on democracy and giving the young people the chance to run their club. I have affiliated the junior fishing club with Foroige. The benefits of this come from the extra insurance available for Junior Members, the support and training available to me as a volunteer and access to a 14 seater mini bus which I also have alicence to drive. Very handy for hte club outings to venues that are not local for the lads.

Here is the link to Foroige:
http://www.foroige.ie/

National Coarse Fishing Federation of Ireland

Here is alink to the NCFFI homepage for anyone interested in coarse angling in Ireland:

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~ncffi/

Junior Angling in Galway

I am also the Junior Officer for the Galway Coarse Angling Association. This means that I am the first point of contact for many young people getting involved in angling. To encourage new anglers into the club I meet with them initially, help them with getting the right tackle and give them tips on angling. I call the junior members when we have a club competition coming up and often borrow the mini bus from work to bring them to the venues. A new departure this year is that I am providing tackle for new anglers - a rod and net - so that they can get started. If they like it then I give than a list of what's required to get them started and send them off to the local tackle shop.
The picture shown is me and a couple of the junior's at a fishing competition on Ross lake in Galway.

Favourite methods and venues

Pole fishing for Roach with a short line on Ballyquirke and feeder fishing for Bream.

Opinions of Galway Fishing

Galways got a lot of coarse angling opportinities even if its' not known as an angling 'hotspot'. I have been here for 4 years now and have enjoyed some great sport. We have a lot of rivers and lakes and if you head off the beaten track you can find great 'untouched' fishing. I will use this site as a on - line diary and log of my fishing succeses and failures (of which there are plenty).

The main site for coarse angling in Galway is Moycullen, 1o kms north of the city. Its best water is Ballyquirke Lough. However when I get the time I like to try the less well knowen and seldom fised areas. These have included Lough Corrib and the River Corrib, where I have caught fish that have never seen a coarse angler before.