A east Cork Venue - 10/10/10 - COD

[drseafish]

People: myself

Duration:6:30 - 9 pm

Tide:Big- 8pm FT

Weather: Calm and warm

Bait:crab

Rigs:Pennells (2/0 & 3/0) Pennell pulleys 2/0

Results: 9 coddling, 1 cod, 1 dog and 2 coalies


Report: Sometimes the gods smile on you and manage a session that is not a dream.
I hadn't planned to fish this weekend but fate intervened and I got some crab and went for a quick session in the hope of bagging some half decent coddling. Times and tide were perfect when I got to the venue. Not much happening until darkness but I picked up a couple of decent coalies ~35cm before it got dark and a small codling 1lb just at dusk. As the sun went down and the tide filled on came the coddling. A nice 2lber at first followed by a doggie, then a double on a pennel trace, then one at 3lb and another at ~2lb and just at full tide I had my first proper cod. The bite was not great but once I connected with him he stayed deep and tried to move against the tide and weed like he was on a mission. I kept the pressure up, but the slipped my gears on my Penn mag before I finally managed to beach the mother. I was happy as a pig in S**T, afters years of frustration I finally managed a cod (ie over 5lb) from the shore. I had 3 more up until 9pm when I called it a day as I was out of peelers. I have included some pics, unfortunately they all did not come out and some don't do the fish justice but I don't care I can finally tick the box regards cod. Its been about 10 years since I had a coddling session of that quality and I hope its not a flash in the pan, but this winter could be serious. My penn mag needs urgent repair but so what it was worth it.

[steyrman]

well done some nice codling reels can be fixed

[Surfrod]

Congrats on a great fishin' session.
Roll on the winter.

[syboit]

congrats on the cod/codling. could be plenty of fish and chips in your house for the next few days.

[RockHunter]

Well done - good to see a proper cod from the shore.
I was fishing an East Cork beach myself on Sunday night - aiming for bass as there was a great surf but got 8 codling, all a decent size too along with one fairly large coalfish.
It was from a beach which is more known for bass than cod (at least in recent years) so it looks like we could be in for a bumper cod season alright.

[saving private brian]

nice fishing.i bet cod was on yer dinner menu the next day

[burt eg]

lovely fishing wish we got cod like that up here on the antrim coast, they look to be in great condition too

[kerrywez]

Well done that man, I hope this is a good portent for the coming winter cod bashing sessions.

[chrisfeeney30]

nice one, i agree..have been getting a few codling up here in the last two weeks..good sign i hope!

[junior conger]

nice cod there
going down to youghal on sat night

[doublebubble]

Well done drseafish.... beautiful sights there and a nice report to go with it...

[Donnyboy1]

Savage fishing, well done!
Tis on my to do list also... here's hoping we're in for some good fishing this winter!

[roger de dodger]

you broke a penn 525 you must be related to fintan was it a new model or one of the old originals?p.s great fishing my mind has now tuned to winter speices even though i got a smoothy a few days ago,lets all say a prayer to the cod god ,let this be the year

[tight lines]

SUPER SESSION NICE TO SEE THE CODLING IN NUMBERS HOPE IT A SIGN OF THING TO COME

[cortaz]

Well deserved Kieran excellent fishisg

[eyesreilly]

Well done, congrats on the decent codling,they look superb,,,,,,and especially on the cod from the shore,,,,,,,,,,,hope some of them make their way up this direction

[Al and Jordan]

excellent fishing man it's sessions like that, that make it all worth while