People:Me
Duration:7:30pm - 10:30pm
Tide:Rising
Weather:Cloudy
Bait:Lug
Rigs:Float
Results: 19 small pollock and coalies, 1 pollock of approx 3lbs.
Report: After work dug some lug and headed to Donaghadee. When I arrived there was a band playing on the end of the pier and they where showing people around the lifeboat. I got setup fishing over the back of the pier, and for the first seven casts I had a fish everytime. Then it started to slow down. Around 9:30pm I was watching the float and it was being jiggled about by small fish when it just disappeared and when I wound in I thought a fish had taken me to the weeds, but the line was moving sideways through the water. I knew there was something heavy on the line, after several minutes I got it to the surface and could see a good sized pollock, which I had to lift up the back wall as I could not wind it up using the reel. This was my biggest pollock ever, and we estimated it to be around the 3lb mark.
Good old Donaghadee, always throwing up surprises.
Ronnie
Donaghadee 9th August
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grady
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Re: Donaghadee 9th August
around 20 fishes in short 3 hours time is good enough i think, and 3lb pollack is good size from the shore, so well done ronnie
Spesies 2012/ flounder, turbot, colie, whiting,thornback ray, dogfish, pollack, ballan wrasse, corcwing wrasse, dab, cod, sea trout, mackerel, smooth hound
Species 2013/ flounder
Species 2013/ flounder
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Re: Donaghadee 9th August
3lb pollock is a beast for that mark. congrats man. your right it will through up the odd surprise 
[i]Species '10[/i] [b]23 Species[/b]
[i]Species '11[/i] Coalfish, Pollock, Mackerel, Sea Trout, Flounder, Turbot, Dab, Thornback Ray, Smoothhound, Tope(pup), Tub Gurnard, LSD, Shanny, Ballen Wrasse, Corkwing Wrasse, Goldsinny Wrasse
[color=#FF0000]Target Species :- Huss, BASS, Cucko Ray[/color]
[i]Species '11[/i] Coalfish, Pollock, Mackerel, Sea Trout, Flounder, Turbot, Dab, Thornback Ray, Smoothhound, Tope(pup), Tub Gurnard, LSD, Shanny, Ballen Wrasse, Corkwing Wrasse, Goldsinny Wrasse
[color=#FF0000]Target Species :- Huss, BASS, Cucko Ray[/color]
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Re: Donaghadee 9th August
Congrats on the pollack Ronnie
I was fishing the railings beside the guy with the kids. Was definitely the best fish I have seen at the Dee in a while
2011 species (2) - Three Bearded Rockling, Coalfish
2010 species (8) - Coalfish, Codling, Shore Rockling, Pollack, Lesser Spotted Dogfish, Poor Cod, Whiting, Pouting
2009 species (10) - Lesser Spotted Dogfish, Pouting, Coalfish, Long Spined Sea Scorpion, Shore Rockling, Codling, Haddock, Shanny, Whiting, Flounder
2010 species (8) - Coalfish, Codling, Shore Rockling, Pollack, Lesser Spotted Dogfish, Poor Cod, Whiting, Pouting
2009 species (10) - Lesser Spotted Dogfish, Pouting, Coalfish, Long Spined Sea Scorpion, Shore Rockling, Codling, Haddock, Shanny, Whiting, Flounder