Duration: 6.30pm - 11.30pm
Tide: turn to high
Weather: light wind, no rain but -4 degrees
Bait: ragworm and cooked peeled prawn
Rigs: 3 hook flappers
Results: ME: 14 flounder, 8 pin whiting, 4 pollock and 2 coalfish. JORDAN: 14 flounder, 9 pin whiting and a possible plaice. CHRISTOPHER : 9 flounder and 7 pin whiting.
Report: ronald finally fessed up and told me the location of his antrim beach
so armed with 2 lb of rag and a box of prawn we headed out with the hopes of a good session 
we were going to hit waterfoot, but it's always nice to fish a new mark with the possibility of getting a new species or 2. we set up camp on the beach around 5.30pm and the tide was well out so it was out with the frying pan and hot dogs all round 
. after our munch i set up my 2 rods and the boys got sorted with a rod and rig each. jordan was busting to try out his flattie rig that he tied all by himself at home 
so loaded with rag we all cast out and jordan got a knock almost straight away. i thought he was just being a bit over excited and had mistaken the gripper setteling for a bite but he reeled in a full house of flounder and i had to eat a very large slice of humble pie and listen to " i told you it was a fish " for the next hour or so. 
it was pretty much like this for the next couple of hours with us all catching fish in quick succession. only problem was my fingers had lost all feeling as the tempreature plummeted below freezing. jordan and chris held their rods while muggins baited them up. and the rag juices were crystaliseing on my hands as i did 
the very sand was crunching under our feet as the top inch or so of it had frozen solid. i gave up on trying to use the prawn as it had frozen into a solid block 
by 11.30 all the rag was gone and on his last cast jordan landed what i think was a plaice. it was only small but the orange dots were quite pronounced. it also had like lumps round its head which i've not seen so far on a flounder, and the lateral line seemed much straighter than the flounder we had caught so far. it also lacked the boney dots along the lateral line that all the flounder we have caught so far have had. i'm sure some of our more knowledgeable site members can help id the fish. upon resizing the pic for this post it has lost a bit of detail, but on full screen the original pic shows the orange spots more clearly. we've fished in some really bad weather with gale force winds and torrential rain, but i can honestly say the sub zero tempreatures last night have been the most uncomfortable so far if it had'nt been fishing so well we would have packed up and headed home around 8pm, but i'm glad we did'nt 
Looks like a flounder to me and thats a tidy looking flattie rig 
