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minty
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antrim coast

#1 Post by minty »

People:just me (incase i blanked again)

Duration:5.30-12.30am

Tide:high-low

Weather:a bit of everything

Bait:rag and mack

Rigs:three hook flapper fixed pat, float rig

Results:2 plaice (or spotty flounder ) coalies, pin whitting, a doggie (over 70cm) and a codling




Report:headed for the north coast as i cant seem to catch fish in co down, had the first line in water at 5.30.
just a float set-up to start with but the little nibbles never developed, so out with the big guns and got set up with a 3 hook flapper on the big rod, still nothing by 8.30 and was thinking of giving up and settling for my 3rd blank in a row :oops: .but as the light faded to bites started to pick up, and i had a bit of hope :) :) . set up the wee rod with a fixed pat rig and first cast landed a plaice (spotty flounder?). no chance of leaving now as i was starting to land fish from both rods, a good mix of coalies and pin whitting. another plaice (spotty flounder?) was closely followed by my doggie of the year( no photo as he was the liveliest fish i've ever landed and everytime i tried to get a picture it ended up being of my feet). was a brave size and was good sport on the spinning rod, few little ones after that was enough to keep me happy till i called it a day after mid-night :D :D :D
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some times catching crabs is a good thing.........or is it...........?

09 so far--codling coalies plaice flounder turbot 3&5 bearded rockling doggies whitting shanny and a [color=#FF0000]5lb [/color]huss thornback ray squid starfish mackeral pollack corkwing wrasse ballan wrasse [color=#FF0000]5lb 6oz [/color]conger
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Re: antrim coast

#2 Post by eyesreilly »

Well done minty, nice result(full moon??), i'll leave the spotty flounder/plaice question to the experts :lol: :lol:
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Re: antrim coast

#3 Post by minty »

yes mate good high full moon
some times catching crabs is a good thing.........or is it...........?

09 so far--codling coalies plaice flounder turbot 3&5 bearded rockling doggies whitting shanny and a [color=#FF0000]5lb [/color]huss thornback ray squid starfish mackeral pollack corkwing wrasse ballan wrasse [color=#FF0000]5lb 6oz [/color]conger
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Re: antrim coast

#4 Post by Al and Jordan »

well done man :P :P :P sounds like you had a good one. the main difference (so i've been told) to i.d. plaice from flounder is a row of boney nodules on the ridgeline behind the eyes. plaice have them, but flounder do'nt. the one facing right in your pic seems to have them, but the other pic is facing the wrong way to make them out. hope this helps. but seeing as i've only ever caught one before i'm certinly no expert :roll: :roll: :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: . but i'm sure one of the other lads from the site who have caught plenty in the past can help out :wink:
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Re: antrim coast

#5 Post by eric »

its a playce
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Re: antrim coast

#6 Post by saltydog »

Nice session good mix of species well done on putting the blank firmly behind you :)
Shore Species 2011 (31) Ballan Wrasse, Bass, Bullhuss, Coalfish, Cod, Conger, Corkwing Wrasse, Cuckoo Ray, Dab, Dogfish, Five Bearded Rockling, Flounder, Goldsinny Wrasse, Long Spined Sea Scorpion, Mackerel, Plaice, Pollack, Poor Cod, Pouting, Rock Goby, Shanny, Shore Rockling, Short Spined Sea Scorpion, Thornback Ray, Three Bearded Rockling, Tompot Blenny, Tope, Tub Gurnard, Turbot, Undulate Ray, Whiting

Shore Species 2010 (26) - Bass, Black Goby, Bull Huss, Coalfish, Cod, Dab, Dogfish, Five Bearded Rockling, Flounder, Grey Gurnard, Lesser Weaver, Mackerel, Mullet, Plaice, Pollack, Poor cod, Pouting, Rock Goby, Shore Rockling, Silver eel, Starry Smooth Hound, Thornback Ray, Tope, Tub Gurnard, Turbot, Whiting

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Re: antrim coast

#7 Post by bertyboy2008 »

defo plaice minty well done m8 wish it was me i aint been out in 7 weeks now :(
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Re: antrim coast

#8 Post by minty »

cheers for the replies lads and for clearing the plaice(spotty flounder?) issue..
can add plaice to my list now :D :D
some times catching crabs is a good thing.........or is it...........?

09 so far--codling coalies plaice flounder turbot 3&5 bearded rockling doggies whitting shanny and a [color=#FF0000]5lb [/color]huss thornback ray squid starfish mackeral pollack corkwing wrasse ballan wrasse [color=#FF0000]5lb 6oz [/color]conger
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Re: antrim coast

#9 Post by contender »

Well done. Sounds like a good wee session.

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