white park bay, co.antrim

[JULIO RAGWORM]

People- 3 hardy souls
Weather- sunny but really cold
Tide- Flood/ebb
Duration- 7 hrs
Rigs- 3 hook flappers, 2 hook clipped down and pulley rigs
Bait- Rag, mackerel and sandeel
Result- Jack Diddly ( 3 blankers lol)

Had set off up the coast with high hopes of picking up some turbot or possibly a bass, was going to go to benone but I think there was a competition on, so decided to give white park bay a bash. Now none of us have fished this place before but knew enough to know about the slog up and down to the beach and from some of the posts on this site knew what sort of fish to be expecting. What a dissapointment no matter what we tried to do nothing was touching the baits apart from the pesky dogs that werent on the lead . As I sat there on the beach praying for a bite a local came over to ask me how I was doing and then began to tell me that he had seen bass being caught of the beach the previous few weeks, this perked me up no end he told me that he has lifted sea trout and bass on the fly off the beach himself, but another few hours passed and nothing. Alas we had tried our best and every tactic we knew but it just wasnt our day, but it does the soul good to be out there braving the elements.

Tight Lines
Julio

[the-ghost]

bad luck julio, whitepark can be like that, loads of fish 1 day and none the next

[contender]

Bad luck. The whole coast along that way seems very hit and mis at the moment.

[birdseye]

Hi Julio. Heard from a mate fishing at Beaone on sunday a 5lb Bass caught at Downhill .

[roger de dodger]

thats a long session ,sometimes we cant admitt defeat ,fair play ,if ya dont go ya dont know!
keep at it it,s worth it when you hit the motherload

[Al and Jordan]

unlucky julio, from recent reports it seems w.p.b. can be really hit and miss. seems to be that if there's any kinda surf it kills the fishing. we blanked there too on our last trip . but then no where seems to be fishing on the east coast during daylight hours at the moment . but fair play for sticking it out

[alannelson]

unlucky with the fishing

[Bass Buster]

unlucky with the fishing... was thinking of headin up there this weekend hope i get some better luck .... tight lines..

[round_ourway]

Unlucky with the fishing mate, I think fishing during the darkness may produce some more fish around the coast at the minute

[JULIO RAGWORM]

Cheers lads, i hope to be out this weekend all being well with the weather , maybe give cushendun a blast I was catching some small codling of there around October, hopefully a few decent sized codling will be showing there now, i will keep yas posted.

Tight Lines
Julio