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The first couple days were handed over to
practice and qualification days for all the teams. With all services
having extra anglers to that required for the Championships, the rods
were having to finely tune rigs and fish hard to make the grade for
the 2 day event at the end of the week.
Sadly the fishing wasn’t up to scratch at all. Battered by gale force
North Westerly winds over the previous weekend, the water in Holyhead
Bay was extremely dark in colour and the fish extremely noticeable …
by their absence. That said it was in a way slightly better time to
help gauge the abilities and adaptability of the anglers on show.
I guess most people can catch fish when they’re
leaping onto the hooks 3 at a time with very little effort required,
with these sort of conditions the anglers would have to work at their
rigs, bait presentation and over all tactics to squeeze out the
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Fortunately the weather was dry and sunny all
week, and with the forecast towards the end of the week for calm still
waters it was decided to take all 3 boats booked in the e vent to
Treaddur Bay. Sheltered from a NW gale, the seas of Treaddur Bay would
be clean and the fish in a more playful manner. Similar to most events
that I help organise the 6hrs competition fishing was split into 3
differing styles:-
1) Drifting over rough ground
2) Shallow broken ground anchor
3) Deep rough ground anchor
Thus over these differing marks, species should
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The event over the 2 days was hotly contested
with some excellent anglers from all 3 teams vying for boat wins
all the way through. A variety of species caught included dogs,
whiting, gurnard, huss, rays, wrasse, codling, pollack, various
mini species a few black bream and many others.
On working out the final scores over the 2
days, it was clear that the RAF had succeeded in retaining the
Inter Services Crown, with a steady and very professional
performance over the 2 days.
Further to this, the RAF anglers had also
claimed the top 3 positions within the individual championships.
Welsh International Boat angler Mark Owen taking first place from
England Squad member Andy Deavin. 3rd place went to Daz
Rose ... not a bad achievement for a fella who hadn’t made the
practice days and had the journey from hell getting to the event
from far north of Scotland |
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Ooh,
and My Way managed top boat / skipper
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