Yes, there's less than 2 months to go to this year's Festival. The Festival is starting on Monday 6th September. Have you got your entry in? If you haven't give Mary a bell on 021 4812167 or download the entry form from
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As you all know this year things are a bit more interesting. We've up the prize fund to €7,500, of which €2,000 is in cash. The breakdown of this cash prize is as follows: First prize €1,000; second prize €400; third prize €200; and best team of four €400. This is on top of all the great prizes of crystal that are there every year. Here's a pic of last year's winner, Frankie Cronin, with his fine cache of prizes:
Frankie came from way down the field on the last day of last year's competition to win it outright. Milo Burke came a close second with Paul Parker coming in third place. The best 'out of state angler' was Sjef van der Brand, from Holland, who came in 5th place and in 7th place was best lady angler, Sandra O' Shea, who is pictured above with a nice codling.
Although, the weather was mixed the fishing was quite good. There was nearly a thousand fish caught over the 4 days, with good hefty congers making up a significant proportion of the catch. Having said that there were also good quality cod, pollack, and ling. Frankie also won the best fish of the week with a 15kg conger. He had this fish on the first day, but would you believe he had one of the exactly the same size on the Friday. Every angler fared out well, though, with each angler in the competition averaging 5 good, quality fish every day. Once more the craic was mighty and as everyone retired to the nominated watering hole from the pier the banter between the various nationalities was mighty!!!
So come on get your skates on and sign up! If your not in, you can't win!
To give you a better idea of how last year went have a look at the links below:
