Duration: noon to 9pm
Tide: on the drop back up to near high
Weather: between the torrential downpours lovely sun and calm seas
Bait: rag and feathers
Rigs: mini size 4, 3 hook flappers
Results: 9 corkwing wrasse, 8 shannys, 7 mackeral (landed), 7 ballan wrasse, 6 long spined sea scorpions, 3 shore rockling and 3 pollack
Report: i was back out again at a local mark trying to stay within my target of 120 trips in 2009. bangor's not only handy for distance from our house but it a handy place to park too where you don't have to walk any distance from the car to get fishing
. i was glad to see patchy, but heavy rain forecast in bursts for the afternoon as i knew it would put the mackie bashers off and give me room to fish at my chosen spots around the harbour 
. it's a cracking wee place to fish as the rise and fall of the tide makes different spots around the harbour fish at different states of the tide. and if you know where to fish and when to fish it, this mark is a guaranteed blank breaker . i started off on the back of the breakwater on the eisenhower pier when the water dropped low enough to get down onto the grills. i had the place to myself and did'nt see another angler until an indian lad came and set up beside me with a set of feathers. i soon realised he was new to angling and was looking a bit of help so i showed him how to rig up and gave him a heavier lead for his feathers as he only had a 1oz lead. the 3ozs gave him a far better cast and we chatted for a bit before he headed off home. i got back to fishing between the rocks for a bash at the minis while casting a set of feathers for some mack for the freezer. both the mini rod and feathers were getting knocks with fish coming thick and fast 
i decided to fish on with the feathers and watch the mini rod tip. once the mini got a knock i put the spinning rod down and reeled in whatever was on the end of the mini rig. this method proved to be very sucessful landing fish after fish on both rods . the only problem was that i was loosing more of the mackeral down the grills as their mini siezures had them throwing the hook once out of the water, but i was'nt complaining as it was great craic 
when the tide forced me off the grills i went on around to another spot in the harbour that only fishes at high tide and got about 10 wrasse in 30 mins 
they were gobbling my rag worm with true gusto and quickly went through about half a pound in an hour. it was class and 2 other anglers came over to see how i was getting so many so quickly, so i showed them where my bait was at in only 3ft of water and they were amazed to watch about 8 different fish fighting for the worms all at once . but they had mackeral in mind so i pointed out a good mackie spot for them to fish at high tide and they went over and started spinning. so if you are reading this guys i hope you got a few before i left i took a look over the back of the eisenhower pier and there was a lot of mackeral being taken on feathers and i did ok myself for them too getting 5 worth taking home and 2 joeys which i put back to grow a bit bigger. i must have lost about 10 falling through the grills, but that's fishing for ya 
well done on the fishing by the way 
) but some leftover bait made up my mind for me and i went to wicklow harbour instead 
love those fresh macks yum, mine never make it to the freezer the pan gets em first