red barn strand youghal 6-4-9

[spindlefist]

PPl: Just myself

time: 9pm- 2am

Tide: low water at 9:45pm

weather: calm, clear sky, light breeze

bait: fresh razor and a dodgy 'fresh' mack

Rig: pennel and 3 hook flapper

results: 1 doggie

report:

So I was down in Cork for work, decided to stay out in youghal, try some fishin of the evening, but couldn;t get me hands on either crab or lug so made do with what I had..
Wanted to fish along ferrypoint, but as I don;t know the area and was fishing alone, didn;t want to go off into unknown territory in the dark.
So it was out down onto Red Barn strand..
nothing happend for the first 2 hours bar crabs relieving me of my bait...
then the bites came, miss 3 very good bites, then connected with a 4th, but the fishy came off....

I had started with 2 rods but after almost launchin the top half of one into the surf, tackled down to just the one... damn starlights..caught the line, caused a crack off and whipped off the top of rod..thank Jeez for Waders!

Then at 1:14am , with bait dwindlin, I managed to connect with what I thought or presumed was a small schoolie, until the culprit did that wonderful doggie trait- come up to the surface and get dragged in like a bag of old boots...
Was by no means a monster, only approx 60 cm , but saved the blank.... and was my first doggie of the year..
It also did a mean impression of the Joker ..

Will be back down in youghal this Friday and saturday, bringin some bodies(mate and our ladies), so may dare venture to ferrypoint or such...make em freeze for their crimes

Later

Dáire

[pointer]

glad to hear you did not blank,like most areas in youghal crab is a must.fished a little nearer youghal last week,lot of dogs and one painted ray.waste of time going to ferrypoint without peelers,you could buy some from guys on this site.

[spindlefist]

Yeah, I really wanted to get crab, was in the tackle shop in cork, but didn't fancy paying €6 for 4 velvet swimmin crab....
Might gather some meself on thursday... was a nice night to get out anyhow, even with a minor result.. the sky was fairly clear and the moon so bright i didn;t need to use my headlamp! So bright in fact I even had a shadow on the ground!!