ballycastle and waterfoot again

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minty
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ballycastle and waterfoot again

#1 Post by minty »

People:me, brother and 20 or so member's of gadsac

Duration:6-11 at comp then 12.30-02.00 waterfoot

Tide:all states

Weather:a mix of rain and slight breeze and dry spells

Bait:rag mack and lug

Rigs:3 hook clipped and 3 hook flappers

Results:me 4 flounder ( 1 at the comp ) brother 1 turbot, 1 coalie, 1 whitting Gadsac good mix of coalies and flatties




Report:Met up with the lads from the club at Ballycastle beach and got the comp under way at 6pm, really good big surf running and i had good hope's of doing well :D (fished here last week in calm conditions and caught feck all), got peg 22 and after an hour it seemed that fish were being caught from peg 1-21, eventually landed a flounder but was gutted when i put on the measure stick to find it was only 18cm :evil: :evil: . baits were getting stripped but no fish :oops: :oops: . then i was told my hooks were too big :oops: :oops: , well as they say "you live and learn ":D . the brother had came up to try out his new rod and reel and managed to get himself a wee turbort :D ( only 1 birdsnes on his new multiplier :oops: ). headed to Waterfoot Beach after the comp to use up the left over bait, arrived at the river end to find the same amount of weed that i encountered last week, but just behind the square house was clean, caught a few more flounder 18-25cm and the brother got a 23cm coalie and a whitting, called it a day as the tide had dropped right off and the weed started moving in.
i'll try to get some photo's up later as i used my phone and need to transfer them over...
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: ballycastle and waterfoot again

#2 Post by seanie35 »

well done on the flats minty 8)
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Re: ballycastle and waterfoot again

#3 Post by round_ourway »

well done minty. It was some surf alright. Lovely showers as well followed by thunder and lighting.

The first comp I've won by a flukey flounder on the last cast lol
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Re: ballycastle and waterfoot again

#4 Post by Bass Buster »

well done minty mate thats a nice days fishing and fair play for stickin out the weather. Tight lines bryan
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Re: ballycastle and waterfoot again

#5 Post by Al and Jordan »

ah well minty, at least you beat the blank :D :D :D . i'll just not mention the turbot to jordan thow :shock: :shock: :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: ballycastle and waterfoot again

#6 Post by smicker »

Well done on not giving up and going on to waterfoot, i was on peg 7 and only managed a 22 cm flounder all night. Overall i think the fish were scarce, still the craic was good and at least the rain kept the jet skiers away.
Ian

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