Irish masters                                                                                         BACK 2008                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Right: First venue the beach at Port Stewart a sunny morning with light winds. A bit of a surf made the beach look very fishy. Shows how wrong you can be as all I managed was two undersized fish while the lad next to me caught six undersize. In fact I didn't see a counter till the last five minutes of the competition, a chap two up on the right of me. Still there were fish caught at each end of the beach as you might expect. Below: The Beekster on the beech.

After a blank on the first competition I was fairly gutted yet determined to fish the night match at Port Rush.

Right: Me at Port Rush, bait was running short but with only an hour of light I could confidently change to fish baits at night.

Left: possibly the largest Flat fish caught on the night taken from the high numbers end of the draw. Below: Arty pic by Fizz, Sunset at Port rush.

The winner and new Irish captain is:

Kieran Begadon (Waterford crystal)

2nd Joe Duggan (Kilmore)

3rd John Snoddy (Glengormley)

4th Paul Graham (Nth Antrim S.A.)

5th John O'Brien (post Irish)