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Wicklow Beach, 6-7-11

#1 Post by eyesreilly »

People:me, Mitch

Duration:9pm-1am

Tide:rising

Weather:south easterly breeze, showery

Bait:crab, rag, squid

Rigs:pulley rigs and 2 hook flapper

Results:Bass, flounder, doggie, smoothound pup, tope pup




Report: Bought a new rod from C+J Angling on the Long Mile road in Drimnagh and Joe from the shop advised me to try it out on a playing field and see if it suits, if not he'd change it. Fair enough , says I :wink: , sounds like a good idea, but then I started looking at tides and weather forecasts etc and began to get itchy feet :roll:.By 7pm I had my mind made up and packed the car up and headed off to Wicklow. The sun was shining as I left , but it started to pelt down near Wicklow town. . Thankfully it had stopped as I arrived at the beach and there was a good surf up. I spotted Mitch and made my way down ,, he had landed a nice 53 cm Bass :mrgreen: .


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I got set up and put some baits out but as there was a strong run of tide and a fair bit of weed , I decided to just fish one rod till the weed eased up as the tide rose. I got talking to 2 other anglers, Anthony and Senor Feeshy from the site,. Anthony had just landed a 51cm Bass, after an abscence of two years from Angling, and was justifiably over the moon!. The pressure was on me now :oops: :oops: . As the tide rose I went back to 2 rods, and put a 2 hook flapper baited with rag tipped with squid, out with the Sonik sk3. I sat back down , holding this rod in my hand, as its nice and light, and left the Triplex, with crab bait attached, on the tripod. As Mitch came over for a chat , I thought i could feel the line lift in my fingers, but as there was still a fair bit of weed around, i wasnt sure if it was a fish or not,,,,,,,,,,,until the line went slack :shock: . I got up and reeled in until I caught up with the fish, and immediately realised i was into a good fish. I brought him in with the waves, and he gave a good account of himself :wink: . Then the weed at the leader knot got caught in the top eye so I walked backwards up the beach until the fish was beached. A fine Bass , first of the year :lol: , 55cms and just over 4 lbs on the scales. I was delighted :wink: . I even decided to look happy in the photo for a change :lol: . A nice way to christen my new rod :lol:


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No more slagging from Fishface :roll: ,well at least about not catching Bass, he would have to think of something else to slag me over :lol: . I sent him a pic on the phone so he wouldnt feel left out :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: On the crab , i had a pup tope (not 20lbs either :roll: ), a pup smoothound, and a doggie. And I almost forgot, there was a flounder on the 2 hook flapper with the bass :shock: . Well , in fact I did forget about him in all the excitement, but he went back ok in the end :wink: .

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The Fisheries Inspectors were on patrol, we were delighted to see them doing their work, and in a nice polite and friendly way they went about their business of making sure we werent hauling in and keeping lots of schoolies. I headed off around 1am, happy as Larry :lol:
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Re: Wicklow Beach, 6-7-11

#2 Post by fishface »

i dnt want to go anyway,got a bass the night before but didnt want to gloat about it on the same beach :P :P :P :P
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Re: Wicklow Beach, 6-7-11

#3 Post by Al »

eyesreilly wrote:People:me, Mitch

Duration:9pm-1am

Tide:rising

Weather:south easterly breeze, showery

Bait:crab, rag, squid

Rigs:pulley rigs and 2 hook flapper

Results:Bass, flounder, doggie, smoothound pup, tope pup




Report: Bought a new rod from C+J Angling on the Long Mile road in Drimnagh and Joe from the shop advised me to try it out on a playing field and see if it suits, if not he'd change it. Fair enough , says I :wink: , sounds like a good idea, but then I started looking at tides and weather forecasts etc and began to get itchy feet :roll:.By 7pm I had my mind made up and packed the car up and headed off to Wicklow. The sun was shining as I left , but it started to pelt down near Wicklow town. . Thankfully it had stopped as I arrived at the beach and there was a good surf up. I spotted Mitch and made my way down ,, he had landed a nice 53 cm Bass :mrgreen: .


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I got set up and put some baits out but as there was a strong run of tide and a fair bit of weed , I decided to just fish one rod till the weed eased up as the tide rose. I got talking to 2 other anglers, Anthony and Senor Feeshy from the site,. Anthony had just landed a 51cm Bass, after an abscence of two years from Angling, and was justifiably over the moon!. The pressure was on me now :oops: :oops: . As the tide rose I went back to 2 rods, and put a 2 hook flapper baited with rag tipped with squid, out with the Sonik sk3. I sat back down , holding this rod in my hand, as its nice and light, and left the Triplex, with crab bait attached, on the tripod. As Mitch came over for a chat , I thought i could feel the line lift in my fingers, but as there was still a fair bit of weed around, i wasnt sure if it was a fish or not,,,,,,,,,,,until the line went slack :shock: . I got up and reeled in until I caught up with the fish, and immediately realised i was into a good fish. I brought him in with the waves, and he gave a good account of himself :wink: . Then the weed at the leader knot got caught in the top eye so I walked backwards up the beach until the fish was beached. A fine Bass , first of the year :lol: , 55cms and just over 4 lbs on the scales. I was delighted :wink: . I even decided to look happy in the photo for a change :lol: . A nice way to christen my new rod :lol:


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No more slagging from Fishface :roll: ,well at least about not catching Bass, he would have to think of something else to slag me over :lol: . I sent him a pic on the phone so he wouldnt feel left out :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: On the crab , i had a pup tope (not 20lbs either :roll: ), a pup smoothound, and a doggie. And I almost forgot, there was a flounder on the 2 hook flapper with the Bass :shock: . Well , in fact I did forget about him in all the excitement, but he went back ok in the end :wink: .

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The Fisheries Inspectors were on patrol, we were delighted to see them doing their work, and in a nice polite and friendly way they went about their business of making sure we werent hauling in and keeping lots of schoolies. I headed off around 1am, happy as Larry :lol:

Nice session Dave, I take it your going to keep the rod then :mrgreen:

Good to see the fisheries officers on the beach, there are usually a few knocking around the north Dublin beaches too!
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Re: Wicklow Beach, 6-7-11

#4 Post by saving private brian »

was the sk3 the new rod you just bought
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Re: Wicklow Beach, 6-7-11

#5 Post by shamoo0804 »

Nice smile, nice bass :wink:
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#6 Post by cathalger »

Beautiful bass, good session too.
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Re: Wicklow Beach, 6-7-11

#7 Post by oli »

nice bass,well done!
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Re: Wicklow Beach, 6-7-11

#8 Post by Al and Jordan »

nice one dave. hopefully we'll have the same luck at the weekend. i feel a marathon east coast session coming on :D :D :D
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Re: Wicklow Beach, 6-7-11

#9 Post by Mick001 »

Nice going Dave, a good few species there and just rewards with a fine Bass for the effort.
Always good when you get to christen a new rod that way - the plan came together :D

Good report and photos as always, but where was Nemo :?:

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Re: Wicklow Beach, 6-7-11

#10 Post by eyesreilly »

Mick001 wrote:Nice going Dave, a good few species there and just rewards with a fine Bass for the effort.
Always good when you get to christen a new rod that way - the plan came together :D

Good report and photos as always, but where was Nemo :?:

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I forgor about poor Nemo with all the excitement :oops: , but buy all accounts the Nemo club was busy the previous night too :lol:
oli wrote:nice Bass,well done!
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cathalger wrote:Beautiful Bass, good session too.
Thanks Cathal :lol:
shamoo0804 wrote:Nice smile, nice Bass :wink:
Thanks Mark, I decided to make an effort to smile :lol:
saving private brian wrote:was the sk3 the new rod you just bought
Yes Brian , the Bass was caught on the Sonik sk3 , its a 13 foot model :wink:

Nice session Dave, I take it your going to keep the rod then

Good to see the fisheries officers on the beach, there are usually a few knocking around the north Dublin beaches too!

I'll have to keep it now , Al, too many memories for me to part with it after that Bass :lol:
fishface wrote:i dnt want to go anyway,got a Bass the night before but didnt want to gloat about it on the same beach :P :P :P :P
I'll believe you except for the bit about you not wanting to gloat :roll:
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Re: Wicklow Beach, 6-7-11

#11 Post by JOHN1 »

great fishing men, nice bass to put a bend in the new rod dave well done :wink:
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Re: Wicklow Beach, 6-7-11

#12 Post by Senor Feeshy »

Lovely fish again Dave. Well worth risking the weather for. We stayed on til 3:30 am; wasn't much action apart from dogs and small flounder. The lads up the beach to the right of us caught nothing all night. Think all your peeler had the fish distracted.

Agree with ya on the bass police. They weren't just going through the motions but seemed to show genuine interest in the fish from a number of perspectives.
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Re: Wicklow Beach, 6-7-11

#13 Post by FisherKing »

Thats a fine Bass Dave & nice fishing 8)
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#14 Post by tight lines »

well done dave now that the bass duck is broken i sure there will be plenty more to come
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#15 Post by JOHN1 »

tight lines wrote:well done dave now that the Bass duck is broken i sure there will be plenty more to come
His bass duck was broken a loooong time ago :lol: :lol: :lol:
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#16 Post by mitch »

great report dave 8) your bass looks even better in the photo ,i hit that beach again today
and had even better results :P :P check [short ] report :oops:
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#17 Post by freedom1916 »

Cracking Bass man well done.
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#18 Post by Dawsey »

Nice bass dave, you look a very happy man indeed. Yet to get one myself, plebty of time left...I hope :shock:
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#19 Post by Dave »

Great report Dave and a cracking bass too, well done
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#20 Post by chenz116 »

great report and that many species in one session is always nice
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