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wicklow species hunt

#1 Post by eric »

People: me and conor

Duration: 3-6pm

Tide: on the rise

Weather: balmy

Bait: rag and mac

Rigs: simples and clip downs

Results: dogs, pouting, poor cod, corkwing wrasse, ballan wrasse, tompot blenny, dab, pollock, dragonette and codling. 10 species in all




Report: with the cracking weather conor hatched the plan to hit wicklow pier for a few hours this afternoon t see if any early wrasse were around. got up a 9 this morning to go out to clontarf to give him a hand digging a few worms, recession and all that :)

eventually reached the mark after a top notch weight watcher diet in the fuller household. think i consumed 8 pts whatever that means. from the off there was plenty of fish around, mostly pouting. then the wrasse came on in dribs and drabs. at distance we achieved a dragonette each, one of which was conor's first so he was delighted! also manged a couple of dogs each, then it was back to mini bashing even notching a tompot! conor forgot to email me that pic so he can post it here haha


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#2 Post by Dave »

Very nice fishing there lads, well done. That spot is great for racking up the species alright as always has the potential to throw up something unexpected.
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#3 Post by JOHN1 »

nice short session lads well done 8)
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#4 Post by Al and Jordan »

thats some ammount of species eric :shock: . well done on the dragonet and topnot. i've been trying for one for the last 2 years with no luck :roll: . what bait did it take if you don't mind me asking?
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sorry al, that was meant to read tompot, i wish it was a topknot. im sure wel both get one eventualy :cry:
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#6 Post by roger de dodger »

myself and gordy did great on annyreily BLANK :lol: however we did get to see some unusual wild life lots of grass snakes about :oops: eric you didnt mention greystones rocks are you afraid eyesreily will find out :mrgreen: or just sulkin cos you couldnt get anything on feathers :lol:
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roger de dodger wrote: however we did get to see some unusual wild life lots of grass snakes about :oops:
Jesus Roger I agree theres a hell of a lot of them grass snakes about at the moment, funny how they appear when the fishing starts to get a bit better :mrgreen:
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#8 Post by dfella25 »

Are you forgetting the sausage roll you ate? That was 8 points on it's own. Sorry about the pic, I missed it.! And poor Gordy and his fear of Slippery Langeraus or the Common Grass snake because he couldn't get to Greystones quick enough :lol:
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roger de dodger wrote:myself and gordy did great on annyreily BLANK :lol: however we did get to see some unusual wild life lots of grass snakes about :oops: eric you didnt mention greystones rocks are you afraid eyesreily will find out :mrgreen: or just sulkin cos you couldnt get anything on feathers :lol:

dave's gonna beat the living sh!te out of me now for fishing there, expect a coalie's head in my bed when i wake up tomorrow morning :cry: thanks roger :x
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#10 Post by roger de dodger »

eric wrote:
roger de dodger wrote:myself and gordy did great on annyreily BLANK :lol: however we did get to see some unusual wild life lots of grass snakes about :oops: eric you didnt mention greystones rocks are you afraid eyesreily will find out :mrgreen: or just sulkin cos you couldnt get anything on feathers :lol:

dave's gonna beat the living sh!te out of me now for fishing there, expect a coalie's head in my bed when i wake up tomorrow morning :cry: thanks roger :x
prob a dog with its entrails hangin out :twisted: :lol: :lol: :lol:
and you forgot to mention the whale and the gannet trying to steal your rod :shock:

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#11 Post by KERRY1 »

Well done Eric and Conor. Great report and nice pictures too.
Eric - your photo's are everywhere lately. I couldn't beleive my eyes when I seen you in Irish Angler magazine last week, I didn't even buy a copy, how awful is that, sorry. :P :lol: :lol: But well done again, you and Chris did us all proud on here.
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#12 Post by ShaneH »

is there grass snakes in ireland :shock:
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ShaneH wrote:is there grass snakes in ireland :shock:

Ireland is full of snakes, and they all have 2 legs :wink:
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#14 Post by eyesreilly »

Well done on the species Hunt lads :wink: ,,,,nice spot was going to go there myself on Friday too :cry: .Eric you say you had to get up at 9am as if thats early :shock: :shock: ,,,and whats this about fishing at my rocks,why i oughta :roll: :roll: ,,,,,,,,just one thing :?: :?: ,,,,,did yis fish those rocks into darkness and face your fears like I do on a regular basis 8) 8) . I could do a report for those fancy magazines about Greystones rocks,,,but it wouldnt be pretty and the locals would probably try to silence me :roll: :roll:
ps ,well done on the Dragonette,would that be a Water Dragonette :?: ,,and especially on the elusive Moptop,rare indeed :lol:
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