Duration:wicklow 5-9.30pm, greystones 7.30-9.15pm
Tide:falling
Weather:dd fine, breezy
Bait:wicklow, rag,lug,frozen mack
dd
Rigs:flappers, feathers lures
Results: wicklow, me and Fishface 1 whiting each
Greystones, 3 whiting, 1 mackeral, 1 flounder.
Report:Went to wicklow harbour with high hopes after catching a few fish,ray and coalie included, the previous thursday. Got bites from the off but no fish . There were plenty of guys under the lighthouse and they seemed to be catching a few mackeral. I had bought frozen from the tackle shop in wicklow earlier, 4'50 for 3 small joeys. These went to mush very easily and when later on we scrounged a fresh mack from a nice passing fisherman (i'm not calling him a mack basher
) it was like chalk and cheese,. The flesh was so firm and stayed on the hook no problem. Fishface caught a whiting after a couple of hours of trying and thank god i didnt have to listen to him for long before i had one myself to save the blank. We were in the same spot as the previous week but the tide was dropping this time. It was a beautiful night with a few sailing yachts coming into the harbour.I should have braved the mack bashers and tried for a few for the freezer but there was a kid there who torments the hell out of you when youre fishing( he knows everything
) and the temptation to teach him to swim the hard way might have gotten the better of me 
:twistedWent to Greystones Sunday evening after work with the leftover rag and 4 lug
dug on thursdar night. Fished at the steps where Aidan, who I had met a few weeks earlier, was fishing. He had been spinning for an hour without any success, and moved to another spot nearby to try his luck. I set up and was delighted to get a double of a flounder and a whiting on the first cast . Bait was lug on a 2 hook flapper.Another cast and i got a good rattle, which reeling in i again thought might be a bass( you can tell i havent caught many
) but which was in fact a mackeral 
, which took rag off the bottom. This was followed by 2 more whiting. I was delighted with the results here, 3 whiting, 1 mack and 1 flounder in less than 2 hours on a short Sunday evening session. By the way, i got the smallest fish i ever caught here last week though i didnt post a report. He saved me from blanking last monday evening, and no,,,,i didnt think it was a bass
,,,, i'll try to post a few pics,,,,,,,someone might be interested The new look site is great by the way,,,,,,real fast loading and you can post lots of pics
,,,,well done,,,,,now if i can only find out how to set my avatar 
that small fish that saved ur blank, dont worry ive caught smaller 
i was able to get an avatar up on the newlook site, and couldnt do it before 
