Arriving at Riverside the sun was shining and the water was coloured. The fishing was hard going with just small fish being caught compared to last time we fish this event, the only thing we could put it down too was to much rain water coming down the river.

Results are as follows

1st I Grant with 5 fish for 143pts

2nd T Magorian with 2 fish for 51pts

3rd J Nelson with 1 fish for 28pts

4th J Wilson with 1 fish for 25pts

Ballast Bank Troon 7/5/24

This match was fished over 3 hours and the weather conditions were good. As usual a lot of small wrasse were about but these went to the members species hunt.

results are as follows

1st Iain with 3 fish for 87pts

2nd Tony with 2 fish for 63pts

3rd John with 1 fish for 37pts

4th jim with 1 fish for 28pts

5th Shane with 1 fish for 26pts

Carrick 18/5/24

The change of venue to Carrick turned out to be a good call until the rain and thunder storm decided to make an appearance. The fish turned up with 2 hours left in the match and after the thunder storm had passed over.

Results are as follows

1st Shane with 4 fish for 139pts

2nd Iain with 2 fish for 107pts

3rd John with 1 fish for 85pts

Shore match 4th June

A good surf was running last night with the winds at 30mph which we thought would be good for the fishing as it would stir up the sea bed. The first hour nothing till the tide started to flood, I then got a good pull over and felt the weight of a good fish on but as it came over the sand bar it came off my only chance at a fish was gone.

Tony then landed a nice fish weighing in at 5lbs 3ozs then landed another one at 5lbs. Gus was next to land one at 4lbs 8ozs

Results are as follows.

1st Tony with 2 fish for 134pts

2nd Gus with 1 fish for 58pts

Shore Match 15 June

The shore match at Carrick went well with the water being coloured close in. There was more smoothies about this time than there was in the last match. The smoothies were either slack lineing you or holding onto the bait as a few were letting go near the edge of the water.

Results are as follows

1st Shane with 4 fish for 256pts

2nd Frank with 1 fish for 35pts

Shore Match 13th July

The fishing for this time of the month is still a bit patchy. We fished with fresh peeler crab and the sea conditions were good but as the results will show not good at all.

Results are as follows

1st Shane with 2 fish for 168pts

Shore match 23rd July

The 3 hour match at Dunure got off to  a good start with a few fish being caught at the start of the match for a change. Then a pod of dolphins made their way by about 20 to 30 off them many close to the shore line. So for the last hour and a half no more bites or fish being caught but good too see that many dolphins in the clyde.

Results are as folllows

1st John with 2 fish for 74pts

2nd shane with 1 fish for 38pts

Shore Match 3rd Sept

This match was fished at turnberry over 3 hours. The first 2 hours you had to contend with the fine weed on your line and masking your hooks. As darkness fell and the weed became less the fish appeared as I thought we were going to weeded out and a blank session.

Results are as follows 

1st Jim with 3 fish for 113pts

2nd John with 2 fish for 69pts.

Fishing aboard Dawn Adventure

Matt gave me a call and asked if I fancied fishing aboard Dawn Adventure out off Port Patrick. Dominic planned to fish for mackerel and then onto the tope mark. There were no tope caught but plenty of bullhuss, dogfish with a ling and conger in the mix also a nice tub gurnard. The last couple of hour we went pollack fishing with fish from 3lbs to the besr at 8lbs caught by Matt. 

Shore Match 15th Oct

The match at the Newton shore was fished in calm conditions with a lot of small fish about as the results will show.

1st John with 1 fish for 33pts

2nd Shane with 1 fish for 27pts

Shore Match 27th Oct

This was one of the better matches with plenty of fish being caught. There were lots of under sized fish being caught as well as sized fish. There were mixed species caught which were plaice, flounder, dabs, coddling, coalies, whitting and rockling.

Results are as follows

1st John with 10 fish for 282pts

2nd Frank with 8 fish for 228pts

3rd Jim with 4 fish for 103pts

Shore Match 19 Nov

This match was fished at Prestwick with a slight roll on. Fishing from low tide up for this 3 hour match.

There were a few flounder about and a shore rockling.

Results are as follows

1st Tony with 4 fish for 137pts

2nd Jim with 4 fish for 115pts

3rd John with 2 fish for 60pts

Next match is on the 23 nov