Smoothound Fishing has been slow enough for me this year, though i'm not complaining
, i'm happy enough to even land one 
. Last year and the year before , it wasnt uncommon for us to be getting 2 or 3 decent fish each when they were about. This year it seems to be single fish patrolling the beaches. On this occassion I had only set up and got the smoothie on the 1st cast. I didnt know that it was to be my only fish and the next 4 hours would be fruitless . Ah well, at least I got one decent one 
It was on live peeler, well he was alive seconds before he hit the water 
. Fishface caught a couple of small fish during the next few hours, then did his usual trick of landing a decent Smoothound on his last cast 
. Disappointing to see the remains of fires/chairs/tents etc littering the beach . And its our fellow anglers 
GREYSTONES 23RD AUGUST
Went for an afternoon session in my beloved Greystones (maybe I lived there in a previous life
). It was my first fishing trip in my fishing van . I dropped into Gotcha Angling to get some bait and have a chat with Ringo. Very handy for future trips there. Shop is well stocked and prices are reasonable , best of luck to him . I'll be purchasing one of his Smocks next time . Armed with my 20 rag, I headed around the corner to the rocks and set up. "You won't catch anything here", an English gent advised me. "Theres been 2 anglers here for the last 4 hrs without a bite". With these nuggets of information delivered to me he left . I wasnt going to let all that negativity affect me so I cast out 2 rods, 1 out and 1 in close. Over the next couple of hours I had 8 species, Ballan Wrasse, Corkwing Wrasse, Shore Rockling, Codling, Blenny, Short Spined Sea Scorpion, Coalies, and Pollock 
. Weather was nice, dry and sunny but cool. The English gent reappeared with his grandaughter and a rod, but he didnt catch anything, pity . She told me he had caught 70 mackeral the night before, and I was a bit dubious until another old gent ,who turned out to be one of the original anglers who hadnt gotten a bite and who also gave me a few rag ), told me that he also had a lot of macks the previous night. I got nothing but large clumps of weed at distance 
. I enjoyed my afternoon/evening session there and scarpered before the rats came out to play . On the negative side the place was a tip, I brought a bag of rubbish away with me and as someone has suggested here i'll bring a litterpicker with me next time, as i'm sure the rats have been through the rubbish before I got there .
NORTH WEXFORD BEACH 27TH AUGUST
With Al and Jordan and their mate Mark down on a smoothie hunt, myself and Fishface decided to tag along to see if some of Jordans good luck would rub off on us
. Dawsey was down with a few mates too, but he made the fateful decision to stay in Ennereilly . I arrived at about 6pm and Jordan had already caught a decent Smut . The tide was dropping at this stage and I was using fresh peeler for the smoothies and rag/squid on a 2 hook flapper for anything else that might be around . I set up beside him and then Fishface arrived . I was lucky enough to connect with a smoothie and after a nervous few minutes eventually landed him with Neils help, soaking his sleeves in the process . Fishface wasnt too happy with me getting a Smoothie, and started throwing stones at me. I ignored his childish behaviour and started to have a conversation with the more mature Jordan (age approx 11 ). Then I felt a sharp pain and thought the stars had come out early but Jordan explained that I had been hit on the head by a stone (Boulder ) thrown by Neil. Poor Jordan witnessed all this , and Al bringing him away from Belfast to the peaceful South, I was mortified . Jordan bandaged me up to give Fishface a scare, and he was for once very humble and apologetic, and rightly so He had bad Karma for the rest of the night, but unfortunately pulled in a doggie just before he left 
. Al will fill in the details on what was caught , but everyone got the target species. I had one decent Smut, one small one, a Dab and a doggie. I also met Creep from the site as I was leaving, unfortunately we didnt get much time to talk, but i'm sure we'll meet up again at some stage.
. that fishface one is a bad man 
i reckon it was jealousy of your smoothie that prompted the stone throwing incident 
tight lines to you all!!!
