Duration: 20TH 4PM - 9PM 27TH 7.30PM - MIDNIGHT
Tide: 20TH HW 6PM 27TH HW 11PM
Weather: 20TH DRY 10MPH NE. 27TH SNOW, HAIL 3MPH SW HOVERING AROUND FREEZING
Bait: RAG MACK SAND EEL SQUID AND RAZOR
Rigs: 3 HOOK FLAPPERS AND JORDAN'S MINI FEATHERS
Results: whiting, pollock, coalfish, flounder and pouting
Report:
SATURDAY 20TH NOVEMBER BALLYCASTLE 4PM - 9PM
we decided to give this beach a go as liam was wanting to get out with us again and i thought it was time to get him away from the east coast for a change. the beaches on the east coast were pretty heavily laden with weed and kelp anyhow so it would have been a real pain pulling weed out of your traces all night. so with the north coast decided on we all hit the road and got set up in quick time. as we were setting up another angler who was fishing on his own came over for a chat telling us that he hed been there from just after lunch and got diddly squat during the day and only started catching once the light began to fade. he had one nice flounder at about a pound so hopes were high for the evening session ahead of us
. 3 hook flappers were the order of the day and the rod tips were nodding away from the start to the end with the hordes of pin whiting expertly stripping every hook in front of them with only the odd one getting hooked up on the size 2 hooks. the biggest fish of the session was a few coalies and a flounder all around the 30cm mark. and the end result was me getting 1 whiting, 1 pollock, 3 coalfish and 6 flounder. jordan had 1 coalfish and 1 whiting and liam stormed off into first place with over 20 fish of the same variety. it seemed his size 4 hooks were resulting in more hook ups than our size 1 and 2 hooks. nothing of any size but every one caught and it stayed dry at least 
SATURDAY 27TH NOVEMBER PORTRUSH & PORTSTEWART HARBOURS 7.30PM - MIDNIGHT
just me and jordan on this one. with this cold snap we decided on staying close to the car for our fishing and the drive up to the north coast was a slow one as we passed ballymena doing 20mph on the motorway. it was mental. there were stretches of the road where you could'nt even see the road markings as everything was frozen over
. so what would normally be a 1hr 10min car journey ended up taking over 2 hours. thankfully the conditions (and roads) were a lot better the closer we got to the coast. we started at portstewart and ended up in portrush for a chuck before heading home again. the winter coalfish were plentyfull at both marks and were hammering anything put in front of them. they were all around th 30cm size but put up a wee scrap as we were only using 1oz cast weight 6ft spinning rods on 10lb line. no sense on going overkill with the beachcasters at these marks at this time of year. you may as well get a bit of fun out of whats out there in front of you . between the 2 marks i ended up with 22 coalfish and 2 pouting and jordan had 37 coalfish, 4 pollock and 1 pouting. no monsters, but plenty of craic on the light tackle the drive home was a long one as a lot of the roads were frozen over and there were plenty of half-wits willing to put their lives on the line driving like complet idiots 
. as we left portrush and starting heading inland the roads were like sheet ice . so i took it easy at a sensible 20mph and an idiot in an audi flew past me as if i was stationary fishtailing up the road. as we got towards ballymena the outside temp gauge on the motor was reading -9 and we saw a big accident where a car had spun out and ended up 40 yards into a field. as we passed it a tractor was pulling the motor out of the field and there were cops and ambulances on scene. i listened to the news the next day and it did'nt get a mention so thankfully no one must have been hurt. but i could'nt help wonder if it was that moron in the audi who had passed us earlier 
. if it was, hell slap it up him as it might serve as a lesson for the future 
im dying to get out but have been looking after Dylan for the last few days as the wife was away, hopfully ill get out in the next few days, as for the idiot in the Audi 
out there at the moment!
and you do rite crawling home to dangerous, any knuckle head can drive fast in a straight line once a car looses control in snow or ice your just a passenger jump in the back and and say a prayer 
.great report again.
you've been working at some real fishing hot spots over the last few months 
