Duration: 11am to 8.30pm
Tide: out then in again
Weather: started of windy and dry. ended wet and calm
Bait: mack, squid and sand eel
Rigs: single hook to 3 way swivel and float set ups and various spinners. 8/0 meat hook conger trace.
Results: ME - 9 dogs and a shore rockling. DAWSEY - 9 dogs, 1 shore rockling, 2 wee pollack and a shanny
Report: this wee mark has been given a rest for a while so we were on a mission to get dawsey into contact with his first huss of the year. sadly there were no huss to be found but the dogs kept us busy and a dog comp insued
(dogfish that is, not the kind of dog comp you get on a night out where someone has to take a hit for the team if you get my drift 
) thankfully this was the kind of attention from dogs we don't mind and a bit of one up'smanship set in 
i took the lead with dawsey keeping me on my toes almost matching me fish for fish. then a flukey cast put out by me, got me 2 dogs on 3 traces as i reeled in . my inital trace attached to my main line had snagged 2 traces we had lost earlier and both had a fish on each one a stroke of pure luck on my part. but i was glad to see the wee dogs unhooked and returned none the worse for being hooked out there for a couple of hours 
. finally the wind died down but brought torrential rain along with it 
we could now see the bites more clearly and the sea calmed down a bit so dawsey threw a float out and got 2 wee pollack and a shore rockling just over the edge of the rocks we were fishing from . i decided to try for something big and chucked out a full mackeral on animal gear at distance. (and was pleasently surprised at how far it went 
) i got a load of tugs on the bait, but no solid takes. but i could almost picture 2 dogs having a tug of war on the 1lb mack bait . dawsey tried a toby and got a follow from a 1lb sea trout who abandoned his attack in just inches of water at dawsey's feet he tried to tempt him again but with no success. i've always fancied having a go at the trout at this mark. when the sea is flat calm you can see them leap clear of the water just literally 10 feet in front of you i almost accidently smacked one in the nut with the tip of my rod while casting here the last time i was down . but alas, it just was'nt to be and the jumpers were'nt about this time . and before we left dawsey did a bit of hand lining in the rock pool and got a wee shanny. those wee guys are like our pets at this mark. 5 of them live in the pool and i've sort of made a point of feeding them now every time we come down . they're funny wee fish that sort of remind me of wee bulldogs. they chase eachother around the pool, but team up when a crab gets too close to the mack i feed them. if you've never seen 4 or 5 shannys chase off a crab 5 times the size of em all i can say is that it's halarious just like sheep dogs coralling a sheep, funny as heck 
by 8.30pm we were soaked to the bone and hungry, so we gave into our bellies and hit the road for home stopping off at mickey d's on the way dawsey's still on the hunt for his first huss, but a couple of near specimen sized dogs more than made up for it 
