The 2024 Daiwa Irish Pairs match angling competition was held final week, with some nice fish caught, and many reminiscences made. The Daiwa Pairs is a sea angling competition held in Dingle each September, and is likely one of the largest sea angling festivals on the British and Irish calendar. Attracting many guests from the UK and round Eire, final week was the forty first operating of the occasion. The competition is generously sponsored by Daiwa with further help from Bassboots.
The competition consists of quite a lot of pegged matches on venues across the peninsula, together with Ventry, Cappa, Brandon and Inch. this 12 months noticed principally settled climate, with venue modifications not crucial and all matches went forward as deliberate. Darren Smith experiences:
Improbable scorching and settled climate for the primary week on ‘Costa Del Dingle’ meant the specimen hunt and surf seashores had been difficult this 12 months however Ventry produced a report variety of canine (the venue having been left untouched for the week previous to the match) and the principle occasion once more went to the wire at on Day 3.
There have been a superb variety of specimen fish caught through the week with a unbelievable Sting Ray (81cms throughout the wings and estimated at round 70lb) caught by Tom Wells which earned him fish of the week. The combined format of matches and specimen searching gave alternatives for all till 4pm on Friday to get onto that very substantial prize desk.
We stay dedicated to our ever-developing Fish Welfare coverage and will likely be retaining our 2-hook-only rule for 2025 which takes plenty of bait strain off the anglers, their pockets and protects sources.
This 12 months, once more we had over £9,000 of Daiwa deal with prizes to provide to the varied winners; in addition to over £9,000 of money and pool prizes; we additionally had on-board round £1,000 value of Bass Boots prizes. An enormous thanks to Daiwa Sports activities, who give us unbelievable sponsorship and help; Bassboots, equally, and SAMF who present us insurance coverage cowl for the week’s competition.
A number of thanks along with our primary occasion sponsors:
Sarah, Nettie and the stunning and useful workers at The Dingle Bay Resort for as soon as once more offering us our match HQ.
Nick Haward for his nice help in serving to me in operating the occasion in Dingle this 12 months given my troublesome private circumstances and Nick, along with Mark Aldred for serving to out with the 2024 Pairs draw. Thanks too to Dave Hutch and Amanda for transporting over the deal with prizes and once more it was nice to have Dalrymple’s again on peg and card assortment responsibility.
Additionally and most significantly although, an enormous, large because of the all-important Match Committee of Jim and Ian who do surrender plenty of their week to vet the week’s venues and assist make these all-important venue selections (over a Guinness or two!) and to make sure the seashores are pegged and that the outcomes are sorted and posted. It was a first-class efficiency from a first-class workforce – thanks lads (my finest buddies!) for an additional blinding effort.
(the primary pair to take action).
