Donaghadee 20th April 7:15pm-8:45pm

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Donaghadee 20th April 7:15pm-8:45pm

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People:Me and second son

Duration:1.5 hours

Tide:Rising

Weather:Sunny and clear with southerly breeze

Bait:Old rag worm left over from wekend

Rigs: Floating

Results:Me 11 Wrasse, Ryan 6 Wrasse




Report:Went home after work and second son Ryan suggested going to Donaghadee for an hour after his success the night before. So we gathered up the remainder of the rag left from the weekend and headed down. When we arrived there where four people already fishing between the piers which is where we wanted to go, so we climbed up onto the wall behind the lighthouse and fished the seaward side. We set the floats to just drift over the top of the kelp and baited up. We did not have to wait long for action as it was nearly a fish a cast. In the end I had 11 wrasse, 1 at 0.5 lbs, 8 between 1 and 2 lbs, and 2 well over 2 lbs. Ryan had 6 in total, 1 slightly less than 1lb, 4 betwen 1lb and 2lb and one well over 2 lbs.
At one stage we both had fish on each of approx 2lbs, my fish diving for the weed beneath it and Ryans trying to get into the weed close to the pier.

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Re: Donaghadee 20th April 7:15pm-8:45pm

#2 Post by round_ourway »

sounded like fun, well done, plenty of fish about
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Re: Donaghadee 20th April 7:15pm-8:45pm

#3 Post by vamper »

Nice session

Good to see the Wrasse back
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2010 species (8) - Coalfish, Codling, Shore Rockling, Pollack, Lesser Spotted Dogfish, Poor Cod, Whiting, Pouting

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Re: Donaghadee 20th April 7:15pm-8:45pm

#4 Post by nifisher »

Nice one on the wrasse good to see them returning and a good size too :!: :!:
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[color=#0000FF]Species 2010: 5[/color]Codling, Coalie, Flounder, Plaice, Turbot.

[color=#0000FF]Species 2009: 20[/color] Flounder, Dab, Coalie, Shore Rockling, Pollock, Pouting, Codling, Poor Cod, Whiting, Long Spined Sea Scorpian, Turbot, Lesser Spotted Dogfish, Thornback Ray, Plaice, Ballan/ Corkwing/Goldshinny Wrasse, Rock Goby, Shanny, Sea Trout.

[color=#0000FF]Species 2008: 20[/color] Coalie, Pollock, Whiting, Poorcod, Pouting, Mackeral, Ballan/Corkwing/Goldshinny Wrasse, Rock Goby, Shanny, Long Spined Sea Scorpian, Black Goby, Thornback Ray, Doggie, Flounder, Codling, Shore Rockling, 5 Bearded Rockling, Bull Huss.

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