SEA LEAGUE
PENN PLUS LLANTWIT MAJOR CHARITY OPEN
Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, 116 anglers
The weather turned up trumps for this much anticipated match held over a three miles of beaches. With a light westerly breeze putting a perfect chop on the water, this resulted in plenty of fish.
It resulted in some superb action consisting of 11 species of fish with smoothhounds the dominant species. A massive 892kg of fish were caught by 76 anglers.
Winner with a superb catch of 40.15kg was Andrew Withey (pictured above with organiser Mark Cowell). This is the second time the Bridgend angler has won the event in recent years. He caught 14 smoothhounds and a conger eel.
Second place went to Dan Crump from Barry with 11 hounds for 34.50kg. Third was Neath’s Steve Tucker with 33.75kg consisting of nine smoothhounds, a dogfish and a conger eel.
Heaviest smoothhound was 6.36kg for Steve Smyth, the second time he has won the WFSA Smoothhound
