sunday night east cork

[seany/cork]

day : sunday the 8th of nov

place : east cork

people : evan699 and my self

bait : sandeel mack rag

fish ; cod whiting hake lobster and a hefty lsd (evan first flatty)well done boy

time ; 6 to 11.30

after setting out from home my self and evan headed east from the city weather was not to bad there was a bit of a nip in the air . after arriving in a location in east cork not one of my fave,s we started with single pennal and 3hook baits mak and rag . first cast evan hit in too 2 whiting ok size .me still nothing . But it was only going to get worse soon as evan casted out again he was on . this would take for ever so i will just skip on a hour . evan was landing number 30 yes 30 mixture of hake cod and whiting , when my rod decided it did not like me and almost jumped off the stand it was fighting hard like nothing i ever hook . loads of thing went true my mind 'was it a string of fish in the current or was it a weeeed fish
it final got it to the surface but only for a minute when it took a dive .finaly got it on dry land a lobster wat treat
at this time evan was still fishing hard it was nearing high and he was on number 40 mostly cod and whiting that was success in its self the fish started getting bigger and bigger so we decided to fish on i still was way behind evan with only 20 we think it was over the past few session when he drew a blank and i hooked a few .
its great to catch wat you set out for and evan done that he caught his first flatty he was happy out.
while he was rebating his line again my rod decided to hop on the strike i new it was a fish and new it was nothing small my rod was on full bend and i could hardly reel .fought it for about 10 min and to my dismay it was a lsd but wat a size biggest fish all nightbut while this was going on and i had my few battles with some fish evan raked up 53fish excluding a star fish he had caught . to my 27and lobster .
all in all it was a great session still on abuzz from it , so final tally

evan669 53

seany (me) 27 plus lobster

[red]

nice haul of fish there lads, well done on the lobster. only ever seen 1 landed and that was east cork also

[evan699]

nice haul of fish there lads, well done on the lobster. only ever seen 1 landed and that was east cork also

that was the second lobster i've seen landed at that mark.

Great nights fishin. My shoulders are killin me thismornin. I'm wrecked tired and my car absolutely stinks of fish but it was well worth it. Fine size of a lobster too. He tried gettin away with one of seanys toes. Delighted wit finally hookin a flattie too. Hopefully the first of many. He put a fair bend in my trout rod. Great sport on the light gear

[seany/cork]

nice haul of fish there lads, well done on the lobster. only ever seen 1 landed and that was east cork also

that was the second lobster i've seen landed at that mark.

Great nights fishin. My shoulders are killin me thismornin. I'm wrecked tired and my car absolutely stinks of fish but it was well worth it. Fine size of a lobster too. He tried gettin away with one of seanys toes. Delighted wit finally hookin a flattie too. Hopefully the first of many. He put a fair bend in my trout rod. Great sport on the light gear

it was i was dreaming of fish all day long the lobster is getting cooked up as i type pour old pinchy never saw it coming
thats my second one landed on rod .roll on next weekend
we might mix it up a bit with dif bait,s never know wat you can pull out of that spot

oh the small fish we were catching are herring pretty big for them doh!

[twinkle]

excellent nights fishing seany thats a great number of fish for one session and a lobster thrown in for good measure
im very fond of lobster myself yummmmmm

[seany/cork]

excellent nights fishing seany thats a great number of fish for one session and a lobster thrown in for good measure
im very fond of lobster myself yummmmmm

thanks twinkle it was all down to evan hw done the ground work and it paid off we blanked a few times in the last few weeks so we needed it .

next lobster i get i will keep you a bit

(does any one know if it is any good for bait)

[FisherKing]

Nice session lads did the Lobster taste good

[seany/cork]

the lobster did really survive to make the pot and not to be a man to temp faith decided he was best of getting a burial
thinking of freezing him and trying him for bait .?

[jd]

Hi lads- never caught a hake (below), I thought you'd only catch them off boats. Is it a deep water venue?

[boycie89]

that what i was thinkin ? you sure it was a hake ??

[seany/cork]

it is deep water alright .
ya we were surprised at it too . they were only just over a pound but i caught a load of small one,s last year in kinsale . my mate is a monger and he said they were hake .
and wat we hooked was the exact same as before . they were fairly spread out maybe one in every 15 was one and with out checking properly you might think it was a whiting ..
there are reports on other sites and ever in wiki about ireland and hake .. maybe our look is in this winter lads ..
re: picture yep that's the one just a bit smaller than that.well a lot smaller .
there is a name on them something ...... cod but there small hake .

[bassangler]

Hey lads. Just pasing through and decided to sign up. big time shore and boat angler since 4 years öld. have gone into spearfishing and freediving the last few years as im a dive instructor and decided to have my cake and eat it . anybody here do any or have any thoughts on the subject(not cake eating!)?

[Pat]

....and decided to sign up. big time shore and boat angler since 4 years öld...

Why not sign up for Cobh Sea Angling Club?

[evan699]

I'm still only learning the basics of sea angling so i'm not the best with species identification. I'm still not positive of what the fish were. I'll try to get a photo of one of them up later. I still haven't figured out how the photo upload works on this site.

[The Austrian]

I still haven't figured out how the photo upload works on this site.

have a look at this thread: http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/bull ... g+pictures

[evan699]

this is one of the fish that were being questioned above. First time uploading a photo so i hope it's clear enough to shed some light on the species ID. If it works i'll chuck up a few more photos of the session.

Cheers

[jd]

That looks like it could be a haddock!

[evan699]

That looks like it could be a haddock!

no black spot and no barbel on the chin so it's not a haddock

[eric]

That looks like it could be a haddock!

no black spot and no barbel on the chin so it's not a haddock

i regret to inform you your hake is a whiting

[evan699]

That looks like it could be a haddock!

no black spot and no barbel on the chin so it's not a haddock

i regret to inform you your hake is a whiting

I hadn't a clue what it was anyway so i'm just glad to know it's edible and i didn't poisin my god mother. Still nice fish and good fighters on the right kind of gear. Are the fish that look the same as this with a pinkish back on them another kind of whiting. I forgot my forecips the night i caught 53 of them and my fingers are fairly torn up over them. Fair set of teeth on them.