Duration: see below
Tide: all states
Weather: blazing sun to torrential rain
Bait: feathers, lures, mack and rag
Rigs: flappers and floats
Results: pollack, mackeral, whiting, ballan wrasse, sea scorpions, shannys and coalies
Report:
DAY 1 BANGOR HARBOUR 5TH SEP 1PM TO 4PM
jordan and i headed down to the back of the breakwater for 3 hours of spinning for mack. oddly thow there were'nt too many around to be found
i got 2 single macks on 2 casts and it seemed to just die a death. there were up to 10 other anglers spinning away and only a dozen or so macks landed while we were there 
strange as only last week we were pulling them up in 2s and 3s. my last cast landed me 2 pollack just under a pound each, which was much to juniors frustration as he went home on a blank 
DAY 2 BANGOR HARBOUR 6TH SEP 3PM TO 6PM
we went back down armed with our feathers to see if our poor luck of yesterday could be put behind us with a bumper haul of mackies for the bait freezer
we arrived to see 8 other anglers all feathering their hearts out. i got chatting with the guy beside us who had been there from 10am and our hopes were quickly dashed when he told us that his catch total for the day was 3 pollack and 2 mackeral 
but we fished it hard for 3 hours and we at least beat the blank with jordan getting a mackie and me a wee whiting.DAY 3 BANGOR HARBOUR 7TH SEP 11AM TO 6PM
with jordan dropped off to school i thought i would get back to a bit of proper fishing. the mackeral feathers were put away and i called into the tackle shop to see if there was any rag left over from the weekend. my luck was in and armed with 2lb of rag and some mack i headed back down to the same spot as the days before to see if different tactics would yeild a better result. the bites on my 3 hook flappers were instant
so much so, that i had to abandon 2 rods and drop to 1 that i could hold in my hand to hit the bites 
the wee 15cm whiting were on my baits before the lead had even hit the sea bed . i was all smiles at first but they were quickly munching their way through my bait supplys 
it was a surprise to me that the 2 ballan wrasse, 2 sea scorpions and 2 shannys were even able to find the baits as the whiting were making short work of them. by 6pm i was outta bait. another angler had gave me 4 fillets of mack too which the whiting made short work of so 21 whiting later i called it quits and headed for home.DAY 4 GREYS POINT (BELOW THE GUN IMPLACEMENTS) 9TH SEP NOON TO 5PM
i decided for a change of venue today and with the recent drought of macks at bangor i decided on some bait fishing below the gun implacements. i called into the tackle shop to pick up some rag and made comment on the lack of macks at the weekendand was heartbroken to be told that the pair trawlers were fishing in the lough at the weekend and lifted over an estimated 200 tonne of mack
so no bloody wonder the mack fishing had gone to the dogs 
i can't even begin to get my head around how much macks that would even look like . but needless to say it will have a hell of an impact on the fishing for the coming weeks 
. in 5 hours i only managed 2 coalfish and a single mack, all of which were taken on feathers as the resident crab population were stripping my bottom baits . i even fished my last few rag under the float to no avail. there were 4 other guys feathering beside me and only managed 4 macks between them all day. but not to get too downhearted as i'm off to portrush tomorrow to see if a different stretch of coast will be any kinder to me 
well done again 
. k2 off the site got some last week and found them full of 4 inch whiting 
