Speci Heaven , Screeming reels

[screeming reels]

People:Siert, myself

Duration:9 hours

Tide:ebb to flood

Weather:great , a little rain pm

Bait:mack, crab, rag ,whites

Rigs:spreader bars, sabikis, animal rigs

Results:Speci Dab 1.55lbs , Speci Plaice 4.14lbs, Speci LSD 3.75lbs

Report:
Well, the day started as a hunt for ray and huss, but rather turned out a flatty marathon, it was a cracking days fishing to say the least, we intially headed out to new ground near the smiths, and i soon had the first speci LSD onboard, much to the annoyance of siert he could not get one over the magic mark, plenty on 3lbs though.
Still no ray , so a move was on order and we shifted to an inshore mark, where we decided to drift, we were picking up plenty of grey gurnard, but still no ray.
We then moved to an area east of trabolgan and again started to try for the thornies, still no joy but i picked up a nice plaice, then followed by second speci of the day, a nice Dab. We started to pick up some more nice plaice around the 2-3lb mark, and decided to continue fishing for the flats, seirt sent down his match bait special, and just as i said it was time to move, he said, " hang on whilst i just bring in this speci plaice,", when i looked round, his 30lb class rod was bent over, and i could see long powerful runs, i grabed the net and in went a lovely big plaice, weighed onshore it tipped the scales at 4.15lbs, seirt was a happy camper, as were we both with three speci's onboard !!
We then decided to move back to the harbour, to try again for the ray and huss, but as the flood started and still no joy we called it a day.
These days come very rarely and boy did we enjoy it.
regards
screeming

[JOHN1]

a treble of specimen's is some feat, well done lads fantastic fishing

[twinkle]

thats the largest plaice iv seen in many a year. well done martin thats top notch angling

[jd]

Nice one lads!

[JimC]

Beautiful Fish! Well Done!

[saving private brian]

ya well done on that cracker of a plaice,beautiful fish

[dezzer]

well done lads,cracking fishing,nothings safe now,eddie...............

[evan699]

Whopper of a plaice lads. Well done on all the secimen. Not a bad days work at all.

[RobertMcClean]

Excellent stuff - well done lads

[MAC]

It's amazing how you can bust your a$$ all year long and the fish seem to be an oz or 2 shy....the all of a sudden you get a day like that....

Very well done lads, super fishing.

[mitch]

dream fishing guys well done

[Ashley Hayden]

Wonderful to see two specimen flatfish in this day and age. Cork harbour area always produced specimens to the likes of Christy Lane.

Fished a small boat off the north Wicklow coastline last Tuesday, the mussel banks there were famous for producing big plaice, sadly thirty years of government sanctioned mussel dredging has created a featureless desert, no mussel banks no plaice, in fact no fish.

Well done again, where there's life there's hope, great catch.

[grady]

great fishing lads some size of flaties well done

[Davy Murdoch]

Nice one lads pity we didn`t get more Plaice and Dabs like that these days

well done..

[Larry 90]

What a plaice well done great to see fish this big being caught!! that Doggies a monster

[g agus t]

great fishing and a lovely plaice. we are hoping to target plaice at the weekend

[MS6964]

Cracking Fish Well Done

[Al and Jordan]

excellent fishing lads. well done all round