donaghadee harbour co. down 16.05.2008

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#1 Post by **Al and Jordan** » Sat May 17, 2008 4:39 pm

People: me, jordan and andrew

Duration: 5pm-12.30am

Tide: low to high

Weather: glorious and dead calm

Bait: rag,mack and baby squid

Rigs: 2 and 3 hook flappers

Results: me - 2 coalfish, 3 whiting and a shore rockling
jordan - 2 ballen wrasse and a pouting
andrew - 2 pollack, 2 shore rockling 1 coalfish and a 3
bearded rockling

Report: we arrived around 5pm and got set up and cast out. jordan was straight into a ballen wrasse taken on rag. i had no sooner got him baited up again and cast him out and would you believe it he was into another ballen wrasse. considering he had never caught one before he was making up for lost time :roll: . an hour or so passed and i was into a coalfish and andrew was into a pollack around half a pound. then the light started to fade and there was an hour or so of constant bites followed by a dose of wee pollack and whiting and the usual assortment of rockling. we rounded the session off around midnight and andrew thought he was snagged tight to the bottom so asked me to free it up. to my suprise i found out that he was'nt snagged at all, as i wound the line in a great big 2lb 3oz lobster appeared up from the depths :shock: and he had the eye of the hook sticking out of his mouth. not only did he munch the bait he also swallowed the hook. just goes to show you never know what your gonna get :wink:

#2 Post by **Ronald** » Sat May 17, 2008 4:46 pm

Nice session , what did the lobster taste like ? they can put up a good scrap :lol:

#3 Post by **eyesreilly** » Sat May 17, 2008 5:42 pm

Well done all, and congrats to Jordan on a new species :lol: .

#4 Post by **wayne riley** » Sat May 17, 2008 9:21 pm

well done lads id say dat lobster tasted lovely :lol: :lol:

#5 Post by **nifisher** » Sun May 18, 2008 9:09 am

Alan,

Nice bit of fishing. Sounds like you all did very well. Interesting one with the Lobster and congradulations to Jordan on the First and Second Wrasse. Hope the were no annoyances down this time.

#6 Post by **nifisher** » Sun May 18, 2008 9:17 am

Alan,

Nice bit of fishing. Sounds like you all did very well. Interesting one with the Lobster and congradulations to Jordan on the First and Second Wrasse. Hope the were no annoyances down this time.

#7 Post by **Al and Jordan** » Sun May 18, 2008 10:22 am

thanks for the replys guys, jordan's made up now he can tick ballen wrasse of his 2008 species count. oh, and larry the bait munchin lobster has now been renamed "thousand island larry" yum,yum :lol:

#8 Post by **fishermannum1** » Sun May 18, 2008 2:15 pm

great session there mate, and nice pic's too, Hmmmmmmmm lobster 8) 8) .....sitting here drooling like homer :lol:

#9 Post by **round_ourway** » Mon May 19, 2008 9:19 am

great wee session. id say that lobster was powerful. great fishing