Clonea, Co. Waterford 2-5/5/08

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Clonea, Co. Waterford 2-5/5/08

#1 Post by Figs »

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Duration:
Fri 4pm-6pm,
Sat 12-2pm,
Sun 10pm-3am
Mon 1pm-3pm

Tide:Mostly 1st half of rising tide

Weather: gentle southerly

Bait:Lug & razor

Rigs:paternoster and ledger

Results:Fri :1 bass 8lbs
Sat : zero
Sun : 2 bass 2lbs, 3.5lbs
Mon: 1 flounder




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Kicked the weekend off with a bang with a cracking 8lber on friday afternoon, he took the lug option on a lengthened florocarbon snood (thanks for the tip Cortaz :) :) )
Went back down to reality on saturday afternoon with a blank :( :(
Didnt get out again till late on sunday night and fishing was tricky enough with a lot of weed floating about covering up the baits, but found a clear patch and got a couple around 1am. Both bass on a ledger set up.
Surf was pretty weak on monday afternoon and didnt get a bite from a bass :cry: :cry: :cry:
Put in a lot of hours and may have expected more with a southerly wind and good tides, wind was possibly not strong enough to create a decent surf.
Might have another go this afternoon though :wink: :wink: :wink:
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#2 Post by cortaz »

nice fish 8) was my name on his back? :) take it was you who was to the left of the car park sun. nite?, we were to the right on the main beach, there was 7 fishing only 3 bass. did you see the baskin shark? it was in the surf yesterday am. i walked to within about 30/40 yards, looked about 15ft. would have made a nice picture.
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#3 Post by hush1 »

That was no shark Cortaz........it was roger scuba diving! :D
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#4 Post by round_ourway »

well done fella, thats some size of bass
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#5 Post by Figs »

I saw all cars + the lights on the beach at castle end so decided to try Shanleys instead, that was full of weed so went back to the castle end around 00.30,fishing left of the carpark, everybody seemed to be gone then.
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#6 Post by carpets »

lovely bass there figs i"d saw he put a fair bend in your rod pitty it didnt produce a few more like that over the weekend for you,
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