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a wicklow beach

#1 Post by fishface »

People:mitch(ger the butcher)ringo(john-gotcha angling)

Duration:to long

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got a phone call from the lads to come down to the beach and play at being a photographer for the night, and being the kind,gentle and passive bloke that i am i went down with my camera and waited in the hope that my journey would not be wasted, as it happened it was not and the boys duly obliged and got a lot of fishes, ringo got an eel of 104 cms which i did not manage to get a photo of but i did manage to get some nice photos of some other nice fish ger got 5 smuts flounder whitting while ringo got flounder eel and smuts, i went home happy in the knowledge that my night was not wasted and my job as the photo taker proved suggesful
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Re: a wicklow beach

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more pics
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Re: a wicklow beach

#3 Post by razor2 »

well done lads nice few fish there good stuff 8)
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#4 Post by yngkmd »

that some good photoshopping :D
2012 species list (In order of appearance), Pollock, Whiting, Colefish (New PB), Shore Rockling, Flounder (New PB), 5 Bearded Rockling (New Species), Dogfish, Pouting, Plaice, Dab, Lesser Sandeel (New Species), Cod (New PB), Long Spine Sea Scorpion, Ballan Wrasse, Corkwing Wrasse, Mackerel, Herring, Goldsinney Wrasse, Butterfish (New Species), Ling (PB), Halibut (New Species), Haddock (New Species), Red Fish (New Species), Wolffish (New Species), Rockcook Wrasse, Shanny, Poorcod, Conger

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Re: a wicklow beach

#5 Post by eyesreilly »

Well done Ger and John :wink: Really decent fish there! Pity youse didnt get any pics of Johns eel, if only i was on the camera and not fishface :wink: l
.Well done on the ray! I take it neil blanked :roll:
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Re: a wicklow beach

#6 Post by Al »

Cracking session lads...Very Jealous, have hardly been out this 'summer' at all!
Better make the best of the next few weeks! :)
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Re: a wicklow beach

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Well done lads!!
list 2013 (10) Ballan Wrasse, (17) Smooth Hounds (6lb, 2oz, best so far this year), (47) LSD, (2) shore Rockling, (1) Long spine scorpion, (9) flounder, (8) Dab (2)Bass (3) Mackerel (2) lance (2) Plaice (2) Pollock (1) whiting

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Re: a wicklow beach

#8 Post by tight lines »

well done neil good photos and great fishing lads some nice ray
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Re: a wicklow beach

#9 Post by roger de dodger »

8) 8) 8) nice going lads great haul!!

neil most photographers bring a tripod with a screw fitting not double cups and rod holders :lol: :lol: :lol:
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#10 Post by mitch »

Have to give 10 out of 10 for that report NEIL :lol: :lol: although its a pity you did not fish yourself :oops: :oops:


four of us fished another wickla beach yesterday icluding NEIL ,and the result was 4 BLANKS :shock: :shock: BUT HEY THATS FISHING FOR YA .
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Re: a wicklow beach

#11 Post by mickeyfish »

Courtown is really fishing well
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Re: a wicklow beach

#12 Post by yappo »

Courtown is really fishing well
Ok so who moved Courtown into Wicklow. :shock: :D :D

Well done lads some nice fish there.


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#13 Post by fishface »

oh was i fishing,i did not realise that. well i have to say i did not blank, i got a huge flounder of at least 10cms, a huge whitting of at least 10 cms and a rather small doggy who tried to imitate a smut but ger shone his light on it and ruined my plan :D :D :D :D :D :D
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#14 Post by dave mc gregor »

good aul killoughter , always fishes well,,, too obvious by blocking out mountains and the house{train station} ... :D :D :D

great nights fishing tho , well done
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#15 Post by fishface »

well ger that worked
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#16 Post by JOHN1 »

dave mc gregor wrote:good aul killoughter ,
if you knew what neil drove(apart from his wife mad)you would know he would not venture down killoughter lane esp after all the recent rain :wink:

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#17 Post by roger de dodger »

:lol: :lol: :lol: kill tractor never mind killoughter :| it looks like BRAY -HEAD to me :mrgreen:
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#18 Post by mitch »

roger de dodger wrote::lol: :lol: :lol: kill tractor never mind killoughter :| it looks like BRAY -HEAD to me :mrgreen:

j..us rodger you miss nothing :lol: i told neil to bring a bucket of sand to throw the likes of you of the trail :D :D
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#19 Post by JOHN1 »

roger de dodger wrote::lol: :lol: :lol: kill tractor never mind killoughter :| it looks like BRAY -HEAD to me :mrgreen:
i feel a trip to killoughter coming on now, after all the rain i have a good chance of having the place to myself :mrgreen:
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#20 Post by mitch »

fishface wrote:well ger that worked

nearly worked, i think the dodger rumbled us :roll: :roll:

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