A pm back to Alby that I'd do a launch and take 1 or 2 of them. A quick call to Petekd had things sorted.
Had the boat on the slip by 10 o'clock but with the lads running late a bit of housekeeping to the boat were done.
Launched at 11.45 and headed to some Harbour marks to put them into the GPS.
Picked up Alby and Eric at Monkstown per at 12.45 and while Denis headed to Petekd we headed to the open sea. First Stop was a small reef about 6 miles off where I had a few fish last week. With fish showing on the bottom and with the slack tides the fish were in no feeding frenzy. The lack of wind made the drift non existant. A pollack for Eric and a ballan for Alby came fron the first bit of a drift. A move to different spots got an other few pollack and a few small ling and a nice 2lb. coalfish for Eric.
By the time Pete and Denis arrived things had slowed down so a move was on.
The next move was to a small wreck anout 3 miles away. When we got there there was a net on it. A few drifts off it produced no fish and a few lost rigs.
On the move again this time to a reef about a mile East.
The two lads were fishing baited feather off the bottom with no luck while near by Pete had a pollack on a gill. A quick dive into the tackle box had the lads on gilling gear and pollack.
Two or three drifts and things went quite so a quick dash to another reef but nothing to show for it we headed back to Pete and Denis. While I gave Eric a lession on how to fillet and skin fish Alby was on shrimp rigs a few ill timed strickes eventually saw him land a Female Cuckoo wrasse, his first ever one. With that out of the way the perfect end to the day for the birthday boy.
Not a great day out if your a Corkman
but the Dubs we pleased 
to see fish over the 20cm even some of the poor cod would have won a longest round fish pool on the East coast 
For Pete it was a great day out 3 new reefs and a wreck on the GPS
Had the lads back to Rinnaskiddy for 18.05 and headed to Aghada
Travel log: 46.7nm. in total about 38nm with the lads
Top speed 30.5kts as we pass Petekd by Spike Island
Species for the day were Pollack, Ling, Coalfish, Poor cod, cuckoo wresse and a Dogfish for Eric while he was snagged again.
