Rinnashark Small Boats 2017 Report

Rinnashark SAC held their first Small Boats Angling Festival on the 27th and 28th of May 2017.

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The club had a total of 11 boats entered, with anglers travelling from throughout Ireland and two boats making the journey from Wales.

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As this was a new venture from the club the committee were delighted wit the number of boats fishing.

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The events main sponser was The Three Sisters Inn in Dunmore East Village as well as various club members, local businesses and competing anglers who also gave sponsership.

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The weather for the weekend was mixed but was just good enough to allow for unrestricted fishing. Saturday was a wash, it started calm but increased to around 20 knots from the west as the day progressed.

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Sunday was a dryer day and the wind had, thankfully, eased off.

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The fishing was mixed, with mackerel almost non exsistent, only two landed over the weekend.

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The competition was run as a species hunt, the greatest number of species to be the winner. There was also a list of 7 nominated species for which there would be prizes for the heaviest of each species.

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Boats left the pier on saturday morning at 9am and by 6pm Screaming Reels was leading the charge with 15 species.

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Day Two started off bright and calm with all boats ready for the off at 9am. Day two was always going to be a tougher day with the "easier" species ticked off the list.

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Screaming Reels was never going to make it easy for the chasing pack and added a further 7 to bring their total to 22 species.

 

The Welsh boat "Sea Witch" made big gains on day 2 and added a further 8 species to bring their total to 20.

 

In 3rd place, the lads on "Fin Chaser"finished with 19.

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The Rinnashark SAC would like to thank all of our sponsers for what proved to be a very enjoyable and sucessful event.

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