Duration: 9.30am - 2pm (Heather 11am - 1pm)
Tide: High
Weather: Gorgeous! Like it should have been in July! No Wind, Sun, Omg it was perfect!
Bait: Sweet Sweet Ragworm.
Rigs: 2 Hooks Scratchers, 3 Hook Boom Rigs, Float Setup.
Results: Around 30 Ballan Wrasse to 2.5lb, 4 Corkwing Wrasse, 3 Goldsinney Wrasse, 3 Pollack around 8oz, 2 Shore Rockling, 1 of which was 30cm, 1 Coalie of about 1.5lb, Loads of Whiting up to about 20cm, Some Small Codling, a couple of pouting.
Report:
Best session in Donaghadee for a long, long time. and I didn't bring a camera! I'm gutted!
But seriously that was the sort of session you go out for! Lots of small stuff interspersed with stuff that gave you a serious tug!Started off at the Chain, casting into the channel, started picking up Codling and Whiting immediately, couldn't actually leave either rod down at the start as they just started banging away with the little blighters. So approaching 11am and the much anticipated arrival of the girlfriend I got her Rod set up, I thought a float set up would be fun and I couldn't help myself trying it before she arrived, Got 2 small wrasse and a nice shore rockling on the float. Though when Heather arrived I had to change it to a bottom rig as she likes fishing like that
Building a nice bag of fish by now, with double shots of small wrasse coming from a short underarm flick. First real wrasse of note was a fish of around 2lb which I got tight to the North Pier. Heather started with a good Coalfish on the carp rod followed quickly by her first ever Wrasse.There was a guy fishing my usual spot and he had managed a couple of fish on Mackeral, when he moved I moved down onto my usual spot and all hell broke loose! Spend most of the session helping Heather with her Mini wrasse, But when I got the chance I hammered a couple of real Lunkers on the slope of the North Pier, Including at least 3 fish which were over 2lb. Meanwhile the close up rods were bagging up on the species, with Heather getting more whiting and a couple of nice Corkwings...
Heather went to the chippy and while dangling I managed a couple of gorgeous little Goldsinney and another rockling....
Lunch consisted of a Scampi supper from Davys chip shop (highly recommended) and then Heather had to go.
I stayed for another while with another couple of good Ballans showing from the North Pier, all in all, a great session, and Heather's now on 5 Species since she started fishing!
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