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.

map for tuition on Sat 30th May

Ryans shore Map 6km from westwood house to turn off main road and about 3km before moycullen

Club Match Calendar for 2009

The match dates for the 2009 league are as follows:

Best 7 Results to count.

 

Date                Venue        Draw

March 8th          Joinery          9.30 a.m.

April 5th               Ross Lake  9.30 a.m.

May 17th             TBC             TBC

June 21st            Ryans Shore  9.30 a.m.

July 19th               L. Parkyfaherty 9.30 a.m.

August 23rd          Lough Down 9.30 a.m.

September 20th   Ross Lake    9.30 a.m.

October 11th         TBC             TBC

November 8th       Lough Down 9.30 a.m.

November 22nd Joinery          9.30 a.m.

December 13th Joinery          9.30 a.m. Fur& Feather

The Adrian O’Sullivan Memorial Match will be in October on the Joinery, date to be decided.

The top 3 anglers on each match day are paid a share of the optional pools (if they have entered).

The first placed angler is awarded 20 points, decreasing down to the last placed angler. Non attending anglers receive no points.

Junior anglers are entered into overall club championship and the Junior championship.

Junior anglers must be over 12 years of age. Juniors under 12 must be accompanied by a responsible adult.

No littered pegs will be weighed in and all anglers are expected to take home litter found on their pegs for proper disposal even when it is not their litter.

All fish must be returned unharmed after weighing and dead fish will not be weighed in.

Results of 2008 League.

We had 10 matches this year of which 8 counted towards the club league. As 2 matches did not go ahead the best 6 results counted towards the championship. Our second match had to be cancelled due to flooding and our match in Woodford did not count towards the league as there were not enough anglers fishing. All in all it was a  poor year for match turnouts and hopefully this will improve for this year. We might have something to thank the recession for if it means more people are out fishing. Results for the annual league are calculated on the best 8 match results with 20 points being awarded to the first placed angler and 19 to second and so on.  The championship is open to all club members and there is a separate league for juniors.

Fishing wise it was also a poor year and club members now feel that they would prefer to stick to fishing fewer venues for this year but concentrating on the venues that fish best. Our heaviest match weight in the league this year was in Balinasloe marina with 3.6 kilo. We returned there for the final match of the year and it was a different story with very few fish feeding and Arunas targeting (and catching) minnows.  Anglegrove fishery fished well for Martin, Arunas and Medo but with only 2 seniors fishing it did not count towards league points.

The seniors league for 2008 was won by me with 117 points from my best 6 results with Martin Davitt second with 112 and Arunas Mlecka third with 110 points so it was close enough in that 7 points separated the top 3.

The Juniors league was won by Daniel Whelan with 99 points beating Medo Sultan, the 2007 Junior Champion with 46 points. A newer club member, Paul Boreham came third with 32 points.  We had 10 juniors in the club who regularly turned up to fish matches which is very encouraging and in the entire league only 1 junior blanked meaning they all caught fish in every match they attended.

The AGM will be taking place soon and I hope to have a post soon after with our new match dates and details posted for 2009. We hope to get the 2009 league off the ground in late February.

Latest results

Match 9 Joinery

1st Arunas Mlecka

2nd Martin Davitt

3rd Jason Leavy

4th Medo Sultan

Match 8 River Cottage Fishery

1st Jason Leavy 2.85 kilos

2nd Bill Cassidy 2.7 Kilos

3rd Arunas Mlecka 1.00 kilo

4th Martin Davitt 0.820 kilo

5th medo Sultan 0.3 kilo

League so far

1st Jason Leavy 

2nd Arunas Mlecka

3rd Martin Davitt

The last match of the league is on November 2nd on the Joinery again, hopefully this time without the gale force winds and constant rain we had the last day.

Photos so far this year

Arunas now holds the record for the biggest bag of fish from anglegrove

I had some good Roach fishing during Spring on Ryans shore

Recent Results for 2008

Martin among the Bream on Clondanagh Lake, Tulla

Results so far for 2008:

Its been a funny year so far with only a few people turning out for matches. This has been in part due to the  national team of 4 Triana league which is running and has 4 of our anglers in it competing and doing well as Team Greys Galway. However that said we have had quite a few Juniors turning up and the 2 Junior Tuition days we have run saw around 14 Juniors introduced to the sport and of those 14 the ones who came back and fished matches since have done very well. Its obvious that the few hours training pays off and gives the young anglers the confidence to fish a full match without a senior angler helping them along all the way. Thanks to Cathal Hughes (Greys Galway) and Arunas Mlecka for their help with the juniors as they gave up their free time, tackle and bait to help the lads catch a few.

Also a special thanks to Dorothy from Clondanagh Cottage B&B near Tulla in Clare.  We had called Dorothy about coming down to fish a match on Clondanagh lake to see if she could help. Well she did - and sorted us out with a key to the car park, access to the private stretch of shore on the lake and gave us all the bait we needed to pre bait the swims on the lake prior to fishing. So we pre-baited a few swims that we put the juniors on, and then they caught fish while the rest of us (except Martin Davitt) struggled. All in all though we had a great day and a few decent fish were caught and its all thanks to Dorothy. Clondanagh Cottage B&B specialises in catering for anglers and you can find details of the service that Dorothy offers anglers here:

http://www.clondanaghcottage.com/

Ok so in short the league so far looks like this: (results and pics posted below)

League so far: 

1st        Jason Leavy        77 Pts 

2nd        Arunas Mlecka    70 Pts 

3rd        Alan Boreham     68 Pts 

4th        Daniel Whelan     64 Pts

Last match Ballinasloe Harbour 17/08/08

1st  Jason Leavy 3.600 Kg
2nd Bill Cassidy 2.100 Kg
3rd Martin Davitt 2.060 Kg
4th  Arunas Mlecka 1.500 Kg

Match 6 Results Parky Flaherty 22/07/08

1st  Jason Leavy 3.000 Kg
2nd Arunas Mlecka 2.580 Kg
3rd Bill Cassidy 1.200 Kg

4th Medo Sultan 0.340 Kg

Results up to match 5 Clondannagh

1st)  Alan Boreham 52 pts
2nd) Martin Davitt 40 pts
3rd) Jason Leavy 37 pts
4th) Daniel Whelan 35 pts
5th) Arunas Mlecka 34 pts
6th) Cathal Hughes 20 pts

Recent fishing

Arunas has been doing a lot of piking lately and he and I fished Lough Down to see how its fishing for the upcoming match. Arunas had more fish than me - I spent too much time on worm trying for skimmers. We caught a roach a chuck on maggot, mostly small but there were any number there to be caught. Arunas pike are from the Clare river and the Cregg river also produced a few for him. We were going to try the rivers for roach but headed to Lough Down instead as it was blowing a gale.

Recent Fishing...

This was early August, fishing in Parky after getting keys from the forresters who were harvesting the trees around the lake a the time. Fishing with Martin Davitt, tnhe club secretary. It fished ok and we hoped for a good match on 12th September. It was not to be though as despite a good attendance and all but one peg being fished it did not fish well and was won by Rory Dunne, who found big hybrids and bream on the feeder, second was Cathal Hughes with his usual bag of fish way bigger than anyone thought...I came third and did not really deserve it. Only got the result after setting up the feeder half way throught the match to try to keep up with Rory. So much for the practice which saw me catch bream close in on the waggler...

Another match was fished since then on the Joinery and was won by Cathal Hughes (again) with Arunas coming second. We are on the Joinery again this Sunday (30th Sept) and again for tnhe Adrian O'Sullivan on the following Saturday (6th Oct). Its fishing well enough with plenty of roach to be caught on the high and low pegs, and skimmers and bream for the lucky few in between... More posts with results form these over the next fortnight.

Results match 4 Rooskey

Name Weight Points

1.BEDFORD Richard 14.120 20

2.HUGHES Cathal 5.240 19


3.DAVITT Martin 4.570 18


4.BEDFORD Malcolm 3.950 17


5.DUNNE Shane 2.150 16


6.MC WEENEY Doni 1.980 15


7.MLECKA Arunas 1.610 14


BOREHAM Alan DNW


CASSIDY Bill DNW


THE LEAGUE LOOKS LIKE THIS AT THE MOMENT:

HUGHES Cathal
WEIGHT: 22.960
POINTS: 76
MC WEENEY Doni
WEIGHT:16.560
POINTS: 64
BEDFORD Richard
WEIGHT:18.730
POINTS: 63
BEDFORD Malcolm
WEIGHT:8.110
POINTS:56
LEAVY Jason
WEIGHT:13.110
POINTS:54
CASSIDY Bill
WEIGHT:9.080
POINTS:50
DUNNE Shane
WEIGHT:3.450
POINTS:49
BEDFORD Liam
WEIGHT:7.630
POINTS:46
DAVITT Martin
WEIGHT:6.320
POINTS:44
MLECKA Arunas
WEIGHT:2.200
POINTS:33

Club Contact Details

Secretary: Jason Leavy email: casperjah@yahoo.co.uk

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.