East Cork rock mark - 7th August 2008

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#1 Post by **RockHunter** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 11:55 am

People: Me

Duration: 9.00 pm to 12.30 am

Tide: HW at 10.30 pm

Weather: Calm, warm, very light NNW wind, clear

Bait: Rag, sandeel, fresh mackerel

Rigs: Two hook paternoster (size 1/0), feathers

Results: 1 conger, 4 dogfish, 18 mackerel

Report: I dug some ragworm in the afternoon and later I headed out to a rock mark that I fished a few times last month. I had intended to do some plugging for bass and concentrate on bait fishing after dark.

I got set up and baited one rod with rag and cast it out. I then cast out the plug but then noticed that the water close to the shore was "boiling" with mackerel. I switched to a set of feathers and cast out - first couple of casts just produced one mackerel each - I switched to a different set of feathers - this time pulled in three. That was shortly followed by four. The shoal moved along shore a bit so I followed them and got a another three and single and then four.

By that stage I had 18. That was enough - some for dinner over the next couple of days and plenty for bait. It was dusk at that stage so too dark to do any more plugging.

I got back to the bait rod, retrived it to find the bait stripped. I have not had a problem with crabs in that area so it may have been sucked off by fish while I was busy with the mackerel.

I rebaited and tipped with fresh mackerel. Shortly after casting out I had a bite - a small conger.

A little later I got the first dogfish - on rag tipped with mackerel.

It went quite for a while after that - so I switched to sandeel on one hook, mack strip on the other.

That improved things - I started to get bites - missed some but got three more dogfish all taken on the sandeel.

I am not going to reveal the location of the mark as the next time I go there the currently pristine mark with probably be littered with trash and swarming with mack bashers :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

#2 Post by **RockHunter** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 11:58 am

More pics

#3 Post by **FMCN** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:07 pm

Good session. About revealing marks. I am afraid thats the way it has to go now and most people seem to be doing the same thing and keeping them to themselves. I have stopped putting them on the forum but am always willing to discuss by PM. I've been down at Ardglass the last couple of mornings stocking up on mackerel for bait and the rocks at the golf course are a disgrace. All the mackie bashers in the North must be alcoholics.

fish wish · #4 Post by **fish wish** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:20 pm

nice fishing+photos, like the picture of the mackerel it has BBQ written all over it. :P

fish wish · #5 Post by **fish wish** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:24 pm

FMCN wrote:Good session. About revealing marks. I am afraid thats the way it has to go now and most people seem to be doing the same thing and keeping them to themselves. I have stopped putting them on the forum but am always willing to discuss by PM. I've been down at Ardglass the last couple of mornings stocking up on mackerel for bait and the rocks at the golf course are a disgrace. All the mackie bashers in the North must be alcoholics.

Lucky we dont have any of them alcoholic mack bashers in dublin :shock: :shock: :shock:

#6 Post by **cortaz** » Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:12 pm

fish wish wrote:
FMCN wrote:Good session. About revealing marks. I am afraid thats the way it has to go now and most people seem to be doing the same thing and keeping them to themselves. I have stopped putting them on the forum but am always willing to discuss by PM. I've been down at Ardglass the last couple of mornings stocking up on mackerel for bait and the rocks at the golf course are a disgrace. All the mackie bashers in the North must be alcoholics.

Lucky we dont have any of them alcoholic mack bashers in dublin :shock: :shock: :shock:

or waterford :D :D