People:myself and shamoo
Duration:cold
Tide:cold
Weather:dd ?
Bait: cold rag, cold lug, cold mackeral, cold crab
dd
Rigs:flappers loops flap your loops
Results:christmas number one? 'keeping warm' dance video...
Report:dabs whiting flounder and another species that was too small to identify... really poor. not much in numbers or size.
I'm thinking of trying my luck up here again haven't fished here since August, has anyone tried here lately. I will have a selection of bait Mackeral, squid, lug, razor and mussle. Any reports would be great.
Has anyone fished there recently im planning a trip down this saturday.
regards,
Samo
Here is a clip of Nick's new style which is quite interesting and seems to deliver very good distances for him in practice.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=NfOn8YLXxRM
Comments appreciated and I will pass them back to Nick as he doesn't have a PC.
Regards
People: me
Duration: 20.30 to 23.30
Tide: High Tide @ 22.15
Weather: Windy and very clod
Bait: Lug, squid and sand-eel
Rigs: 3 hooks rig
Results: 10 whiting
Report:
I just went fishing as I had some leftover lug from Friday.
I knew that the whiting would save a blank, it was not an exciting session.
Diego
People:me
Duration:7.30 till11pm
Tide:dropping
Weather:brrrh
Bait:fresh peeler and large scallops
Rigs:2hook flapper and 1hook pulley
Results:skiniest LSD ever
jesus I still thawing out despite being like the Michelin man with all the cloths. Had some scallops from the freezer to try along with fresh peeler. Set up the peeler on far out rod and set the scallop up on a close in rod, was trying out a rod I found in my dads shed...a Paul Kerry moonraker Bass rod, very light and whippy but still strong. Let the scallop drift around with a 2oz lead and this took the only fish of the night about 9pm. No other bites. Still great to be on a beach somewhere
Report:
People: Me
Duration: 10.20 pm - 2.00 am
Tide: LW at 12.30 am
Weather: Very cold, clear, cold northerly wind
Bait: Black lug, razor
Rigs: 3/0 pennel pulleys
Results: 4 Bass
Report: I dug some big juicy black lug in the afternoon at low tide, tough going but it kept me warm. Although I knew it was going to be a very cold night I was determined to get out as I had some stuff on Sunday and wouldn't be able to go fishing. As I was leaving the house there was already a layer of frost on the car windows. But I had plenty of layers of warm clothing.
I decided to try a beach I haven't fished much over the last 6 months but one that would be a bit more sheltered from the northerly winds. I got set up at about 10.20 pm on the falling tide. I used two rods both with 3/0 pennels baited with lug/razor, I used a gripper on one and a 3 oz non-gripper weight on the other. Despite the northerly wind there was a bit of a surf. It wasn't too cold - the wind seemed to die down for a while.
About 20 minutes later I got a strong bite on the rod with the 3 oz weight but it managed to shake itself off the hook about 10 m out
From the fight it had been putting up I presume it could only have been a Bass. I checked the hook and found that the bait had slid down around the bend on the hook preventing the fish been properly hooked.
A little later I got a knock on the other rod - and another missed bite - I thought it was going to be one of those nights
But shortly afterwards I got another bite on the same rod - I struck this one well and there was no escaping this time. It was a 44 cm Bass
Maybe 20 minutes later there was a small twitch on the other rod - I picked it up and waited until I felt a stronger pull - struck and had another fish on the line. This one was a 46 cm Bass
About half an hour later I got a third Bass - a smaller one at 40 cm.
At about 1.30 am I got another bite, this one was not putting up such a strong fight and turned out to be the smallest Bass of the night at 38 cm.
Two of the Bass were taken on the rod with the gripper weight, I had more bites on the other rod but only managed to land two of the fish. I was more than happy with the nights fishing - 4 Bass - that is the most I have ever caught in one session. I was also delighted to get them off that beach - I had fished it a lot earlier in the year but had more or less given up on it after a string of poor results.
People:Myself, JP, Seanie
Duration:5-30-8.30ish
Tide:Fished over HW
Weather:Nice, baltic though.
Bait:Saturdays Leftovers including, lug, crab, mack, sandeel, oh and some of the colonels finest....
Rigs:3 hook of various varieties mostly.
Results:JP 42 fish for 1691 points
, Sean 22 for 811, Myself 30 for 1081
. All whiting bar 2 coalies and a poultry dog.
Report:
Following on from the rather poor fishing the previous day in the Munster Open, (well for some of us anyhow...) The call came for another foray into Youghal to use up the leftover bait. The only way to keep the Rampent fella happy and interested is to fish a mini comp (ie massage the ego a little more, the needy git....
) so that is what we did. With the tide flooding hard, short casts of 30 or so yards to start off with had a flood of fish coming in. Doubles, trebles, whiting not even hooked but lasooed around the nose etc etc. Manic fishing. I managed to beat my feat of hauling in 5 flounder in one recently by retrieving another lost trace of mine with 3 whiting attached along with the 3 on the other regulation trace. (6 hook flappers, ye cant beat them....
) Lot of lads in the area fishing, our own Ferg amongst them, had nothing it seemed to report other than those whiting pests.
A couple of hours into it, and with JP hammering treble after treble merrily on his peg with myself and Seanie nto wanting to chicken out from what was becoming a massacre of sorts, wondering when it would be appropriate to concede defeat, a plan was hatched..... Purely for research purposes you understand...
In the back of the jeep was the remnants of the previous days KFC, with our poultry supply of worms almost exhausted, it seemed only natural to turn to an even more sustainable, easily collected (drive thru), environmentally friendly, carbon low (unless overcooked), tasty substitute. After all, Whiting has a delicate, almost chicken like flavour (maybe that has more to do with the dodgy takeaways I frequent frying there chicken in the fish fat, who knows...
) That dubious connection made, we all grabbed a bit. JP, being a breast man, opted for the crispy strip, a nice piece of breast meat with a crunchy coating. Sean, a little more refined went for a tasty strip of thigh with some of the colonels secret coating attached whereas, me, being the pig that I am went for a lovely bit of greasy skin....
Well, what do you know, those clucking whiting were on it again with, surprise surprise, the biggest whiting of the day at 37cms falling to JPs crispy strip. A nice one for me of 33 on the skin with Seanies thighs being totallly ignored (not it has to be said, for the first time over the weekend either.....
) Eggsactly the results we were hoping for..... No more backbreaking sessions lug digging, no more scandalous prices for live bait, no, all you need is 8 or 9 quid for a nice large 3 piece variety meal at the drive through in Little Island with the added bonus that you get to drink the coke and eat the chips yourself.... In these tricky financial times, thats a bargain Eddie Hobbs himself would surely endorse. A variety of baits in a box, probably better off eating the thighs yourself though, those whiting dont seem to be too fond of the dark meat.
A regroup at the somewhat inappropriately named, but really rather nice (and reasonable too it has to be said), Pak Fook chinese restaurant in Youghal had the cards counted and the Rampent fella declared the winner. Not won-tonning to burst the fellas bubble you see, (these Angling Athletes are of a sensitive disposition, very highly strung...), myself and Sean were only too happy to be the whipping boys on this occasion and amid mutterings of didn't really try, couldnt be bothered, let you win etc we set off on our merry way home.
A cracking nights entertainment and a highly enjoyable way of blowing the cobwebs off from the previous day with a ball of fish. Loads of decent table sized fish amongst them and it will be whiting suppers for a day or two (helen, are you listening.....I want them fish filleted by the time I get home!
)
I was wondering is there any place between Dungarvan and kinsale were I might be able to catch pouting and tubot
Can anyone hint me in the direction of somewhere I can pump or dig black lug in the South-West Cork area please? or anywhere in cork county for that matter...?
People- Me, Stevie, J.R and Colin
Duration- 9am- 1.30pm
Weather- Cold and frosty
Bait- Lug, Ragworm, Mackerel
Rigs- Two hook Flappers, Pulley Rigs
Results- Two flounder 34cm and 41cm.
Arranged at the last club meeting to give Glenarm a bash. We met at the car park and set up. Tid was well up the beach so we started up on the car park. First Cast from J.R resulted in a flounder of 34cm. His bait had just hit the water when his rod went bang!
First fish of the day
Thought great this is going to be a good day.
Fished hard all morning........ nothing!!!
Just drowning the worms
Stuck it out untill 1.30pm then decided to go home.......... when suddenly BANG
J.R rods goes yet again and low and behold a flounder of 41cm just over 1 and a half lbs.... What a beauty
Pics to follow
Plaice
People: Me
Duration: 8am to 3pm
Tide: Around Midday
Weather: -2C to 4C Very Cold, no wind, sunny
Bait: Lug, Razor, Crab
Rigs: 2 hook flappers
Results: Countless small Whiting and Dabs
I hadn't fished Killoughter in over 15 years. Way back then the small road leading to the railway crossing was very bad, I thought that it must have been improved by now. I was wrong, it's like something from downtown Baghdad, don't go there unless you have a 4X4.
Started fishing at 8am and finished at 3pm. Loads of small whiting and Dab and only one decent dab taken all day.
As I was reeling in the first small Whiting there was an almighty pull on the rod and a seal surfaced just in front of me. The Whiting had no stomach when I brought it in. Not sure if this was the seal though as I couldn't see how such a big seal could just take the stomach and not the entire fish.
People:me and the wife
Date :30/11/08
Venue:clifden bay rock mark and beach
Duration:15.00 - 18.45
Tide:low 12:16 1.1m high 18:34 4.4m
Weather:clear and very cold winds from north
Bait:mackerel limpets prawns mussels lures
Rigs: various
Results: Blank
tried lures and bait but not one bite not even crab took the bait
after today I think I will buy a mini rod and a bowl of gold fish and stay at home beside the fire fishing for the winter
People:myself & stevo
Duration:all day
Tide:7 ish
Weather:ddcalm but COLD
Bait:lug rag crab bluey
dd
Rigs:pennels & flappers
Results:Whiting Whiting and more Whiting
Report:Tried deepwater quay in Cobh first , not even a bite. headed to Monkstown then with the attack of whiting there neverending , if there was codling there they had no chance with the whiting . The bait was hardly in the water and the bites begun. I then tried dropping a fillett of bluey on a pennel at my feet for a conger , same again with the whiting straight away on the bait . Within 3~4 mins there was nothing left on the fillett.
Went to the Cunnigar on the way back , got there too early to start fishing so decided on Clonea Strand where we both blanked. Where are the doggies when you need them.
A waste of Great bait and a waste of a day!
What's the story with codling this year??? No show so far so to speak.Not even tiddlers.
South Wexford beaches have not thrown up any so far that I am aware of.
Out of the last 3 sessions we have only had school Bass, dogs and flounder.
Is ANYONE hooking???
folks ,
Looking for a Wide angle lens for Nikon D40x ..
Mac / Bradan you were discussing some a while back .. any advice
Any sample pics also appreciated ...
tks
ny advice on ny marks in county down for big mullet (4Ibs+)
I was thinking about fishing this comp and was wondering who do i need to pre-reg with.
cheers in advance
stevie
hi guys
spent sat in waterford freezing my ass of with not a touch. fingers got so cold i couldnt tie the knot to change over to a different lure
my question
is there a quick link i can tie on to my line then just switch lure with out having to cut the line and retie every time
derek
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