Everyone started to arrive from 12 o,clock and after a chat and catch up in the car park everyone was booked on by 12.45 .
15 anglers turned out for this one and we all set off down the beach we decided on the day that you could make the long or short walk as long as there was someone next to you to sign your card .
Some of the anglers headed to the far right and by the time we reached are chosen spots there were 3 or 4 groups spaced out over a very long stretch with a few pleasure anglers dotted in between each group. 2 o,clock soon came and all in was called and relayed down the beach.
There were fish caught from the off with John Walsh having a dab on his first cast followed soon after with a dogfish then looking to my right i saw people putting fish back in the water then to my left I saw Dave Roberts had his first hound so things were looking good then I had my first hound of the day .
A selection of baits were being used with varying results ,The wind picked up a little bit more than predicted at times but with it being on our backs and the sun was shining it was still comfortable fishing as the rain stayed away for the duration and the wind dropped off a little .I fished next to Richie Fisher ,Mike Bishton and John Walsh with Dave and Jordan to my far left with an hour and a half to go and reports of some good numbers from further down the beach and i had had a few hounds as well I decide to go for a walk up to dave roberts to see how they were getting on at that end while chatting about what they had caught and what baits were working best we heard richie fisher shouting me that was rod was bouncing I was that far away i couldnt see it so I legged it [slowly] back to my rod just as i got there Richie grabbed the rod and passed it to me saying its on so i pulled in to it but didnt very heavy it was either swimming towards me or i had lost it after reeling half way in i knew it was off then I looked to my left and noticed that Richie and John were stood chatting with there backs to me at which point I realized that had been pranked my the pair of them
"pm soon came and all in was called and we all made the walk back to the car park.
The cards were in and the results worked out there were a total of 94 fish caught 22 dabs,Dale had a small ray dave radclife had a small Tope of 68cm and John walsh had a nice huss of 76cm and a total of 66 smooth hounds were landed hound were caught on all baits from squid ,Lugg ;Prawns ,frozen crab and fresh crab but the best results on the day were on fresh crab so to the final results .
1st Dave Lunt 12 fish for 865cm 11 points £37
2nd chris james 12 fish for 846cm 10 points £25
3rd Dave roberts 12 fish for 559 cm 9 points £20
4th mark davies 7 fish for 534cm 8 points
4th dylan kensal 8 fish for 534cm 8 points
6th Rob Turner 7 fish for 461 cm 6 points
7th Dave Radclife 7 fish for 372cm 5 points
8th Jordan Roberts 9 fish for 369cm 4 points
9th Gary Swift 7 fish for 364cm 3 points
10th Dale Edwards 6 fish for 327 cm 2 points
11th john walsh 6 fish for 291 cm 1 point
12th richie fisher 1 fish for 77cm 1 point
13th Jeff White 1 fish for 72cm 1 point
14th mike bishton
Ava kensal 1 point
Longest Fish was won by Mark Davies smooth hound 86cm £14
over all it was a great day with various success and some good cards returned with fresh crab proving to be the best bait on the day but still plenty of fish caught on other baits well done to the top 3 and to everyone who fished on the day hope to see you all at the next match which will be at mostyn on the 10th September.
Ime sorry i didnt take many pictures on the day but anyone that has please feel free to add them
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