Ireland

big_cup · #41

Good luck

Cheers

big_cup · #42

True to the Irish weather i got blown off the crappity smack bank yesterday

peg was solid with roach perch and hybrids though. Should a won the match but ran out of bait, as soon as the shell stopped so did the bites, half gallon not enough to keep em, never fed that many through a feeder here but 6pint was needed, match was won with 23k, given conditions that was a good weight, i had 18and half, they haven't done result but with the rumours I've heard i.m 4th. Few bream started to show yesterday as well

joffmiester · #43

37kg of roach on a feeder won i think had a text from bill

big_cup · #44

Yesterday was the day from hell and one to forget, 4ft waves all day, caught about 10to12kilo but net was trashed when i come to weigh in and only had a few fish left for4kilo. Won my section wi 10k today from airport. Its fishing harder than last week and no more bream been caught

Statler · #45

Bit windy then

Pedro · #46

Bit windy then

More like plenty ov hot air........me-thinks

Well done today...by the way.....Kermie......

big_cup · #47

crappity smack windy, my god. Gave it everything with a proper rod to make 40turns lol. Was full of fish as well but never mind, need to get my head around it now and fish hard rest a week

joffmiester · #48

bill text last night one section yesterday 21 kgs odd was last in the section 15kg half way in others loads of 20 kg weights bu not sure what won

#49

Just got back from Muckno, - probably best festival there ever. What a venue, must be the best roach venue in the world, by some way.
We were picking up other weights from all over the country and the north but the top scores would figure here. bwst weight of the week was 97 lb 8 oz, one bream, 20 lb of roach sized hybrids and the rest all roach.
Fish were caught on whip, sometimes ar two metres to any length of pole out, depending where the shelf started. Mainly 4-5 metres whip with caster or maggot.
The odd peg saw feeder catches (where the shelf was far out or snaggy) even then they went to 75 lbs.

Roach heaven.

Night time were good an 'all 4am latest

I had 40 lb on a couple of the days, all roach - only good enough for halfway up the section

Pro rata never seen so many 20 kilos roach weight in me life.

MrV · #50

Roach heaven.

Sounds like it might need a visit to help my recuperation

Glad you had a good week Bill

big_cup · #51

Just got back from Muckno, - probably best festival there ever. What a venue, must be the best roach venue in the world, by some way.
We were picking up other weights from all over the country and the north but the top scores would figure here. bwst weight of the week was 97 lb 8 oz, one bream, 20 lb of roach sized hybrids and the rest all roach.
Fish were caught on whip, sometimes ar two metres to any length of pole out, depending where the shelf started. Mainly 4-5 metres whip with caster or maggot.
The odd peg saw feeder catches (where the shelf was far out or snaggy) even then they went to 75 lbs.

Roach heaven.

Night time were good an 'all 4am latest

I had 40 lb on a couple of the days, all roach - only good enough for halfway up the section

Pro rata never seen so many 20 kilos roach weight in me life.

Spoke to Andy in charlies bar Enniskillen yesterday, said it was black with fish, quite the opposite to the pairs last year where the same sections threw up a fair few blanks

him and his mate shared some 250k to win on weight after a points tie, some exceptional fishing to say the least and glad you enjoyed it Bill

For us, the combination of using most the same sections for the pairs ( of which threw mega weights up themselves where 40k won a section and 22k was last in it, and others 35k to win and 18k last

) added to the truly shocking weather that literally blew us off the bank for 3 days

left some tough fishing to be had, not able to present your gear properly, couldn't fish poles when we had to, fish backing off from such an hammering the list against us was endless. That said it was a tight competition and there was still fish to be caught, 68k winning by 200gram, 67k 3rd and 62k last in the top 7 frame. Nobody on our drawn rotation was anywhere near

so that put pay to my festival. Got over the first day net ripped shocker that would of put me at worst 2nd in section

won section at airport tuesday and had 3 more 2nd in section from the wrong ends so not done 3 bad. Scrapped in 4th on the Sunday open so picked a few beer tokens up

all in all we had some great craaaaaaaack, 1am through to 3am for the full 8 days, who could argue with that??

#52

Don't think I'll ever see Muckno fish like that again but you never know.
I fished the Erne when there were massive weights of roach but it was nowt like this. You needed the right draw and depth on the Erne.
It was roach soup at Muckno, one lad had 23 kilo odd on his top two at Concra.
Last year was the worst it has been. No venue on earth could stand all the slate that was being dumped and manoevred to make for the pegs and roads in. Those posts that went in were done by a massive pnuematic machine thingy that vibrated for miles.
The furthest I walked this year was three pegs!!!!!!!!

Heaven only knows what weights will come off Muckno next week

#53

Bill this sounds class when you see me next i want to know more will buy you a shandy hope you have plenty of photos you didnt take fred the bread with you did ya he catches ten pound off a bad peg god knows what he would be like over there

big_cup · #54

Parked behind my peg once as we used Garadice, short walk at Airport as I drove through bottom carpark and right up to peg before point, Killadeas the same old drop gear off, remove van then walk through wood ( peg 10 last week ) Crom River was kind to me, drew 3 then 2 so only couple hundred yard, Crom lake was the awkward one, 200 yard hill then 200 yard through occasional sludge

Draws were needed in each section on each day but the rotation was the key part, and more sickening than that the right rotation was 1 behind us, so we had it rough all week but fed it up well for the others to bag up

Statler · #55

Sod all that walking

big_cup · #56

Sod all that walking

Steady away, it wont kill you, that's why your ready for scrap heap Statler ::) ::) Walks or no walks you can not knock the emerald isle, after all when the waters are empty of fish, the bars are full of the best Guiness in the world

Statler · #57

True did all that 30 years ago
Got the T shirt
Look after yourself and you may get old enough to be slagged off by young whipper snappers

big_cup · #58

True did all that 30 years ago
Got the T shirt
Look after yourself and you may get old enough to be slagged off by young whipper snappers

Hmmmmmm, big Kev Ashurst can give you 15 years and he still going strong

big_cup · #59

True did all that 30 years ago
Got the T shirt
Look after yourself and you may get old enough to be slagged off by young whipper snappers

And I never new you even fished any festival in Ireland??

Statler · #60

I didn't but went over several times
My claim to fame is that in all those visits I never missed a days fishing despite the weather, or a night out