Duration: 3pm -3am
Tide: hw 9pm
Weather: 5mph sw occasional rain but mild
Bait: prawn, squid, mack, bluey, sand eel, razor and lug
Rigs: 3 hook flappers and 2 up 1 down rigs
Results: flounder, coalies, whiting and pollack.
Report: i had promised to get out with windy from the site and his young lad for ages, but weather and free time had put this session off for a few weeks, but today everything was set and we hit the road with the intention of fishing waterfoot beach. but we arrived to find the beach deep with kelp and weed. so plan B was hatched and we went back up to ballycastle as we kne from the day before the beach was clear of weed. by 3pm we all had 2 rods out each but sadly the first fish was'nt landed until after 8pm
. but we had a chance to catch up and have a chat while jordan and ethan played in the sand finding good skimmers (not bream 
, bouncing stones) to throw out towards rathlin island across the water. while waiting for darkness to come we went up to the cars and got the pan on and got the kids and ourselves sorted with hot dogs and bacon baps 
. 3 other lads arrived for a session and set up to our left, but dissappeared after an hour or so. we must have been fishing where they intended to fish, so i don't know how they faired but left pretty soon and must have moved on somewhere else. windy was first into a fish with a flounder, and a nice one at that 
. then it was jordan's turn and got a nice coalie which turned out to be the biggest fish of the session 
. windy got another flounder and a wee coalie. his son also had a few too and i was beginning to wonder what i was doing wrong 
. i was'nt even getting any bites. so i decided to re bait and have a chat with windy when my rod almost bounced off the tripod. i my haste to run and strike the fish i did'nt have time to turn my headlight back on and went head over hells on a log which i had pulled up the beach during daylight hours thinking if i did'nt move it then, one of the kids might fall over it in the darkness 
. i did a full sommersault and was layed out on my back like an upside down turtle with my arms and legs flailing about as a wave swept over me 
. needless to say windy and his young lad were in kinks and wrinkles laughing their heads off at me,, but like a downed gazell on the kalahari i was back up on my feet in a split second and got my fish allbeit wet and dusted in sand . once all the laughter died down i was the one laughing as it was a decent coalie and that sort of set the pace for the rest of the night. the coalies were all pretty respectable ranging from 33cms to 37cms . a welcome change from all the tiddlers we usually have to contend with by 1am we decided to wrap it up and head for home. the end result stood like this.jordan got 4 coalies
i got 6 coalies
windy got 4 coalies and 2 flounder
ethan got 3 coalies.
all in all a great day's fishing. there was'nt a lot of fish about. but what we did catch was pretty decent by our normal standards
.on the way home jordan begged me to drive past waterfoot pier to see if there was anyone there that we knew. oddly it was deserted and jordan twisted my arm to get the spinning rods out for a quick chuck
the usual dose of wee puckers were hanging around just off the edge of the pier and within 90 mins jordan had 5 coalies and a pollack and i got 3 coalies, 2 pollack and a whiting a great fun way to end off the trip 
if only the coalies down here got that big off the shore nice when you hit a few decent one,s they go well for their size 
as for falling over and ending up wet if you wernt hurt i,d have to say i would have had a good laugh too 
