Duration:6-30pm - 10-30pm
Tide:high approx 8-30pm
Weather:mild, calm, dry
Bait:lug, mack, crab
Rigs:2 hook flappers
Results:1xcoalie, 3x 5 bearded rockling,1xshore rockling,1x dab, 2xwhiting and 1xstrap conger
Report:Having blanked on my last 3 outings, I was desperate to finish the year off with a few fish. The shore reports didnt offer much hope for my neck of the woods but I decided that i'd head out and give it a try. I'd picked up some fine lug from C+J Angling on the Long Mile road and as I set up on the Pier I wondered how i'd get these whoppers on my size 4 hooks
2 rods were set up and remembering some advice from the Dodger I cast one rod in a certain direction in the hope of a nice codling and the other into some rocky ground below me. The two rods started to twitch from the off but I had a feeling it was crabs, and I was soon hauling in the obligatory Bray Harbour Hitch-Hikers
.Then I had a good tug on the first rod at mid-distance and was delighted to bring in my first fish in about 6 weeks 
, a 5 bearded rockling
.
He was followed by a small silver coalie on mack on the close in rod and then a tiny whiting.
I got another couple of 5 bearded rockling ,which I would have thought would normally be around at low tide
,but what do I know, not a lot obviously. I was chuffed to bits with a nice little dab( from my Cod hotspot ) 
and then the close in rod hopped around and I managed to land a small strap conger.I 've always wanted a conger, as long as he was a small strap one so my prayers were answered
.
By this stage my white towel was like a butchers block, with blood, guts, mashed mack,crab juice ,burst lug and now sticky slime from the conger all mixed together for me to wipe my hands with. At the end I was having a little battle with a shore rockling who was spitting out the hook as I attempted to hook him,,,,,,,,,,,I had an idea it was a shore rockling and I got him on the third attempt.
I finished up with 9 fish, what a difference from my last few outings and its given me a shot in the arm. An enjoyable way to end 2010 and I was at home with a bottle of beer in time to ring in the New Year. P.S,,,Mind yourselves on the Pier as the light on the end is broken and its extra hard reversing down.
