Duration: portrush 8pm - 1am bangor 2pm - 4pm
Tide: portrush ht 11.30pm bangor ht 4.30pm
Weather: gales and occasional rain
Bait: mack, peeler, squid and sand eel
Rigs: 3 hook flappers
Results: PORTRUSH 9 codling, 3 dab, 2 coalies, 1 whiting and a poor cod. BANGOR 21 whiting
Report: i had arranged to take aaron up to portrush to bag him a few new species, but his missus was taken into hospital to get the wee one on the way (good luck man
). so i headed on up to see what was about as i did well here 2 weeks before. i arrived to be greeted with mental winds again 
but at least the rain was holding off 
small mercys and all that. bite indication was out the window again and i just reeled in every 20 mins to see if i had a fish on. i had no worms with me so i reckoned the wee flats were out the window on this trip. i also scaled up my hook size to 2/0 to try and avoid the tiddlers in the hope of a big cod making an appearence 
. there was a big swell and massive rollers crashing in on the beach so i was hopeing to be lucky enough to get a silver surfer 
. but unfortunately none showed up on this trip 
. but i was'nt too downhearted as there was plenty to keep me busy 
. i started to get a cod a cast and ended up getting 9 
the most i've ever had in the 1 session . they all fell to peeler and mack cocktails but were all stuffed full of wee sand coloured crabs no bigger than a pound coin. they must have been in gorgeing themselves full of them as the big rollers were churning up the sea bed . the biggest one was almost 30cms long and just under a pound. great to catch but still way to small for a dose of beer batter. so they all went back to fatten up a bit 
. i got the dabs on squid and honestly can't remember what the whiting, poor cod and coalies fell to, but it was great craic on the spinning gear. by 1am i was frozen to the bone and hit the road for homeTUESDAY 24th bangor
with a dozen or so strips of mack left over i decided to go down to bangor to mess about with the whiting
. while i was setting up jonny gilbert from the site came over and introduced himself. good to finally meet you man being typical fishing nuts a 30 min conversation about all things fishy began 
. a real decent bloke, and i'm sure we'll meet along the coast again soon enough. when jonny headed on i got back to useing up the mack and was pulling in whiting 2 at a time . soon enough they had stripped the last bits of flesh off my last bits of mack and i was about to pull the skin off the hooks and pack away when i wondered if a chuck out with only skin on the hooks would get a few more 
. i always joke about these wee, fish saying they would attack a bare hook. but was made up reeling in another 5 of them before the hooks were bare and the bites stopped:D . it had started to rain heavily so i timed it well enough and headed on home. as usual, no monsters but all good fun on the spinning gear 
