A fishing mark poser?

[alancooper]

Picture the mark: a sandy, river estuary in the north-west - a scoured, sandy river channel - an exposed sandy beach at the river mouth - further inland, a shallow sandy flood at each high tide (but small wrack-covered boulders towards the bank sides) -a quite powerful ebb/flow that often slops a lot of weed in and out.
When the tide is high and slack it looks as if it should be full of fish. When the tide either ebbing and flowing I imagine there would be loads of fish getting a free ride in an out of the estuary. When the tide is low and slack, they must be queueing to get up.
Now the poser - how would you fish it? Except for where the mark is, let me know if you need any more information if it will help with the answer. I know what the "books" say but most of them are not written by people with regional, local experience.
Are the winter nights a good time for other posers that we could post about or is it a much better idea to go down the pub?
Alan.

[seanie35]

i dont know much but if that was on the south east coast it would scream bass on the dropping tide, dont know your exact area but good sea trout population round your way i bet , hope this helps in a miniscule way

[theshoreking]

sounds like a good location to me. If I could find somethin that breaks the water like an outcrop or a mud/sandbank I'd be givin it a go. So many options, ground fishin at low water or tight to the outcrop with the feeder rig. Pluggin over the kelp. And my favourite in the summer - float fished livebait. Helps avoid the weed too.

[alancooper]

I know that sea trout fishing happens at certain times and it needs a license. There are also flounders but I have had no success. I used to fish the mark when I was beginning a couple of years ago but will now go back and try some of your suggestions. On the bottom with a feeder is something I have not tried - or floating live bait.
Alan.

[alancooper]

I have just seen the post for Brian Kinsella's book on "Sea fishing Ireland". A sea fishing poser "topic" might be useful with time.

[Tanglerat]

If it's where I'm thinking of (and if it isn't, you give a pretty good general description of where I'm thinking off) I'd be fishing the last 2 hours of the ebb and the first 2 hours of the flood in the general vicinity of where the river/channel meets the sea proper.

[dan]

for flounder use a 1 up 1 down or a flapper rig, around estuaries u will also find plenty of mullet in summer and possibly some thin lips goin up river.

[fishinmidget]

agree with tanglerat, in fact i might even make the session a bit shorter if it was a big tide(spring tide). maybe an hour either side of low. then i would use a 2 hook flapper with relatively short snoods to avoid tangles. i would stick to worm and crab baits, as there is always hoards of crabs around estuarys. if you are after the sea trout, sounds like an ideal spot for some fly fishing with small streamers or spinning with a small spinner or plug(i tend to use a 10g blue and silver toby). there will probably be mullet there but unless i saw the venue and how they behave i couldn't tell you how to fish for them. one thing for sure though, if you are after the mullet i would bet that the hour either side of a big high tide would be best.

hope this helps you a little bit mate.

[alancooper]

I see the logic of fishing either side of low tide and of fishing closer to the sea. There are lots of crab and some lug, despite it being sandy - so I will try these baits and vary my rigs and techniqu. The main message I get from the posts is that I should spend time at the mark to see what works.

[fenitbob]

sounds like a spot I know here in kerry (I'm assuming it is not)

should be good for bass flounder turbot (if around) and also white trout possibility of tope too

for bass and flounder use lugs

for turbot and white trout try mackeral strips
also try spinning for bass and white trout. all this should be attempted on a rising tide

for tope try try half a dab or a joey mackeral

[anthony2carr]

Sounds very like a spot I know in the North west.

[alancooper]

Sounds like????? - Yes but the interest is not in guessing where - it is in how to fish in similar situations - what would you do?

[seanie35]

alan just another thing, if your fishing it with the tide dropping and can see the estaurine water running slightly angled to the beach if this water is coloured try to cast over it or on the sea side of this water.......just a tip i read

[roger de dodger]

fish the beach !wait for an onshore wind force 2 or 3 and fish close in 30 to 40 yards on the side the river is flowing too, 200 yards up the beach should be just nice from hw to half way down will be best