Duration:2 weeks
Tide:all sorts
Weather:pretty good
Bait[/b]:king rag, frozen mackerel, sandeel squid and fresh mackerel
Rigs:1 and 2 hook paternoster and pulley pennel
Results:bass, small eyed, undulate and thornback ray
Arrived Saturday 13th August for a family break and hopefully a bit of fishing.
Weather for the 2 weeks was generally pretty good with mostly light winds. Springs for the first week with weaker tides through the second.
Session 1: Sunday 14th fished local beach in light SW over low water 2200-0200. One bass 3-4lb. King rag.
Session 2: Monday 15th lure fishing over LW at mid-day for an hour and bait fished nearby beach with sandeel for 2 hours of flood after ray but blanked.
Session 3: Tuesday 16th . With mild weather continuing and flat calm decided on an all nighter 0100-0700 up on Tralee bay in search of my first undulate. Fished all of flood. Result caught my first and second undulate ray. Only small at 2-3lbs each but still delighted. Also had lost 2 hooks with baits and eventually caught one of the culprits, spider crabs. Both ray took sandeel/squid wraps.
Session 4 Friday 19th Fished local mark in strong southerly up to gale force. Very similar to earlier in year when I had good bass. Fished 2 hours down and 1.5 up. Blanked. Moved to another beach and fished into darkness. Weed a problem and still a blank.
Session 5 Sunday 21st Weak tides. Fished beach in moderate surf from 2100-00.30. HW at 22.30. One 3 lb bass about an hour into ebb.
Session 6 Monday 22nd weak tides so hit a local rock mark in search of thornies. Fished 2 hours either side of low water. 10+ fish in the 3-6lb range. Flat calm.
Session 7 Tuesday 23rd Fished beach mark 20.00-01.00. HW about 00.30. Small surf, showery. Neap. Two rods one with king rag for bass and the other with a big single sandeel for ray. Hooked 3 small-eyed ray. Landed 2 and lost 1. Two landed weighed 8lb 2oz and 12lb 5oz, a new PB. Almost last cast a 5lb bass on the rag. Excellent nights fishing.
Session 8 Thursday 25th Only a couple of hours so headed back to the small-eyed mark but tides much less favourable. Same as before king rag for bass and single sandeel for ray. Fished 20.00-22.30. Last 2.00 of ebb and very early flood. No sign of ray but 2 bass both on ray baits just as the light went Goes to show if they are about they will take anything. These were just big headless sandeel whipped on.
Session 9 last one. Friday 26th. Early start on fenit at 0600m for a couple of fresh mackerel and then a mark up on Tralee bay. A new one which I had been looking at but never fished before. Arrived by seven and although low tide was meant to be about 0915 I think it was a bit later. Very weak tide as I would imagine it would be difficult to fish on bigger tides, but probably worth a try. Tide hadn’t really gone out far enough but could still get out to mark wading a bit and safe enough. Last couple of hours of ebb nothing and weed a problem. When the tide turned weed disappeared and immediately had bites. Missed the first then connected with a thornie 5-6lb and a dogfish. Fished through until 1030 which was only about an hour into flood. Always nice to christen a new mark with a decent fish.
All in all a really enjoyable couple of weeks. My first undulate and the PB small eyed being the highlights.
Report:
big well done with your new pb ,some really nice 
cracking pitures and nice one on the pbs!glad you were rewarded for the effort you put in!wow some ray you caught!
. Nice clear report and photos are excellent, hope to get down there sometime 
