Portaferry 01-05-11

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Shep
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Portaferry 01-05-11

#1 Post by Shep »

People: Dean, Shep, Drew

Duration: 1800-2200

Tide: On the way in

Weather: Lovely, nice and sunny

Bait: Rag worm

Rigs: 2 hook flappers

Results: Wrasse, Codling, Coalfish and a Shorey




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Drew text me this afternoon as we were supposed to get out for a session yesterday, but due to the current eastern winds making most of our usual spots unfishable we decided to give it a miss. So Drew picked me up at around 5.30 and we headed to Portaferry!

Drew was straight in with a 37cm coley as the first fish of the day, after which he caught a few cod and wrasse! I however didn't catch anything until dean turned up at around 7.30, shortly after this I managed to pick up a Shorey and two decently sized wrasse, one was brilliant fun as I caught it on a really tiny rod :D

Dean then proceeded to catch a few cod(a first for us both this year) and wrasse as did myself while Drew was picking up coalys as well!

Nearing the end of the session drew set up a rod so we could drag a rag through the water to try and catch Pollock and we all had a few casts, plenty of touches but unfortunately no Pollock! Although it was great fun!
All in all it was a good session, we really needed something like this after the last few sessions we've had which seemed to be diabolical!

Will post pics shortly
Species 2011 - 19 - Coalfish, Flounder, Pollack, Shore Rockling, Dab, Plaice, Dogfish, Long Spine Sea Scorpion, 5B Rockling, Pouting, Poor Cod, Corkwing Wrasse, Ballan Wrasse, Goldsinny Wrasse, Whiting, Shanny, Codling, 3B Rockling, Mackerel.

Species 2012 - 5 - Coalfish, Flounder, Pollack, Dogfish, Pouting ,Whiting.

Want -Conger,Short Spined Sea Scorpion, Cuckoo Wrasse, Tope.
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Re: Portaferry 01-05-11

#2 Post by fishy1987 »

:P nice session soundes like you had good crack to
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Species 2011 (25) :Cod 80 , Whiting 50 , Coalfish 42 , Sea Scorpion 6(3shortspined/3longspined) , (3b)Rockling 2 , Dogfish 72 , Flounder 32 , Bass 2 , Poor Cod 16 , Dab 16 , Ballen Wrasse 2 , Turbot 1 , Tompot Blenny 3 , Smoothhound 1 , Tub Gurnard 1 , Mackeral 78 , Pollock 10 , Corkwing wrasse 2 , Black Goby 5 , Pouting 4 , Cuckoo Wrasse 1 , Ling 1 , Conger eel 6 , Silver eel 1 , ( Year End 31st October )
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Re: Portaferry 01-05-11

#3 Post by saving private brian »

nice few fish,,,ya everyone hates those east winds
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Re: Portaferry 01-05-11

#4 Post by Drew »

Such a good night, plenty of Wrasse on the go and good to see Martin and Dean getting their first Codling, good going...
2015 Lure: Pollack, Herring, Whiting, Sand Goby, Poor Cod, Pouting

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