Donaghadee 9th August

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rdoggart
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Donaghadee 9th August

#1 Post by rdoggart »

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
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Re: Donaghadee 9th August

#2 Post by grady »

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

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Re: Donaghadee 9th August

#3 Post by Dawsey »

3lb pollock is a beast for that mark. congrats man. your right it will through up the odd surprise :D
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[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

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Re: Donaghadee 9th August

#4 Post by vamper »

Congrats on the pollack Ronnie :D 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

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