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donegal beach mark 13/01/12

#1 Post by grady »

People:me and father in law

Duration:2.30pm to 8pm

Tide:low and rising

Weather:dry calm with light SSE wind

Bait:mac and lug

Rigs:3h flappers, 1up 1down

Results:16x flonders, 2x turbot, 2x colies, 1x whaiting




Report: my father in law is visiting us, so deside to bring him with me to the session, he didn't fish just walked around and enjoied beauty of coastline
first cast and nice size flounder came out of the water, then fishig has slowed down for an hour or so
as start geting dark more fish and spesies appeared, session start geting busy enough fish came almost every cast, it kind of great in this time of the year
was great to have a hands to run from rising tide and in dark
all and all was great day out and start spesies list of 2012
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Spesies 2012/ flounder, turbot, colie, whiting,thornback ray, dogfish, pollack, ballan wrasse, corcwing wrasse, dab, cod, sea trout, mackerel, smooth hound

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Re: donegal beach mark 13/01/12

#2 Post by johnwest »

Good session, you certainly found the flatties; I think I was fishing in the general area but they were a bit scarcer where I was!
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Re: donegal beach mark 13/01/12

#3 Post by sparkey+1 »

Fair play Grady some nice fishing there hope you enjoyed that session buddy. Did you keep the collies for the pan... :wink:
Species 2012: Flounder, Whiting, Dublin Bay Codling, Coalie, 3 Beard Rockling, Shore Rockling, Bass, Dogfish, 5.2lb Starry Smoothhound (PB), Twaite Shad, Thornback Ray 5.8lbs (PB), LSD, Pollock, Ballan Wrasse, Cork Wing Wrasse, 43cm Flounder (PB)

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#4 Post by leadhead »

good session grady,some fine look'n fish....... :)
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#5 Post by bigbadtom »

A very good session there Grady. Nice variety of fish too and plenty of flatties. Well done. :D :D :D
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#6 Post by FisherKing »

well done grady, fine session 8) plenty of fish happy days :wink:
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#7 Post by chuckaroo »

happy days indeed, fine session there. nice one :D
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#8 Post by zud25 »

Heyy Grady :D Well done on your session and nice flatties :D I cant join to u coz the fckin job again :evil: -i hope next time we can fishing together.. :wink:
Where u was on the small or onthe big beach?

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#9 Post by tight lines »

super stuff grady great session and plenty of fish to keep you busy well done with all the flounder and turbot
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#10 Post by fagan »

great fishing grady luv the turbos man. . :D :D :D well done m8 :mrgreen:
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Re: donegal beach mark 13/01/12

#11 Post by Sweetwrasse »

Top session Grady! What size is the turbo in the picture?
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#12 Post by saving private brian »

nice fishing for this time of the year.well done
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Re: donegal beach mark 13/01/12

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johnwest wrote:Good session, you certainly found the flatties; I think I was fishing in the general area but they were a bit scarcer where I was!
thanks John, that spot where i was is realy teeming with them, even this time of the year could cach a few handy flats
sparkey+1 wrote:Fair play Grady some nice fishing there hope you enjoyed that session buddy. Did you keep the collies for the pan... :wink:
cheers Dave that was good session allright, i kept whaiting and couple bigger flats, it was just great to have fresh breakfast :wink:
leadhead wrote:good session grady,some fine look'n fish....... :)
thanks mate
bigbadtom wrote:A very good session there Grady. Nice variety of fish too and plenty of flatties. Well done. :D :D :D
thanks Tom is good to be out and also with few cath
FisherKing wrote:well done grady, fine session 8) plenty of fish happy days :wink:
thanks Brian, roll on on the next one may you get a chance to wet line with me that would be great to meet you again mate :wink:
chuckaroo wrote:happy days indeed, fine session there. nice one :D
cheers Chuck, was good enjoable session
zud25 wrote:Heyy Grady :D Well done on your session and nice flatties :D I cant join to u coz the fckin job again :evil: -i hope next time we can fishing together.. :wink:
Where u was on the small or onthe big beach?

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thanks Zud, well no worrys can meet another time no prob, and yeah i was on the big one
tight lines wrote:super stuff grady great session and plenty of fish to keep you busy well done with all the flounder and turbot
cheers Alan
fagan wrote:great fishing grady luv the turbos man. . :D :D :D well done m8 :mrgreen:
cheers mate
Sweetwrasse wrote:Top session Grady! What size is the turbo in the picture?
thanks man, well they ain't a monstersn just around 20cm let them go to grow bigger :wink:
saving private brian wrote:nice fishing for this time of the year.well done
cheers Brian, yeah its true isn't easy this time of the year, but good when fortune smiles :mrgreen:
Spesies 2012/ flounder, turbot, colie, whiting,thornback ray, dogfish, pollack, ballan wrasse, corcwing wrasse, dab, cod, sea trout, mackerel, smooth hound

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#14 Post by Creep »

Hey Grady looks like I have to start making my way up your neck of the woods!! :D :D :D
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#15 Post by polaris »

nice fishing grady,,bit of a hot spot ther,,nice turbot,,
2010 species----flounder,dab,whiting,doggies,coalfish,pollock,siver eel,sea trout,bass,ballen wrasse, thornback ray,mackerel,pouting,red gurnard,grey gurnard,conger eel,launce,mullet,ling,cod,tub gurnard,octopus,bull huss,3 bearded rockling,poor cod
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#16 Post by dave316 »

Lovely fishing there, sounds like heaven!!
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Creep wrote:Hey Grady looks like I have to start making my way up your neck of the woods!! :D :D :D
thanks Kev, sure you could, as i said before donegal looks well after me :mrgreen:
im gonna give a go to one of my new deep water marks see is any cod sniffing around or any odher spesies :wink:
polaris wrote:nice fishing grady,,bit of a hot spot ther,,nice turbot,,
thanks man, there is few hot spots about, just a weather mater, if ya can't fish in one than is defffinetly could in another one
dave316 wrote:Lovely fishing there, sounds like heaven!!
cheers Dave, yeah perhaps for this time of the could say so :wink:
Spesies 2012/ flounder, turbot, colie, whiting,thornback ray, dogfish, pollack, ballan wrasse, corcwing wrasse, dab, cod, sea trout, mackerel, smooth hound

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#18 Post by Conger »

Well done Grady, great start to 2012, busy session, i would love to get me a couple of those turbots

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Speices 2012 : codling, Bass (pb), Flounder

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#19 Post by Al and Jordan »

nice one grady :P a good mix there 8)
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#20 Post by grady »

Conger wrote:Well done Grady, great start to 2012, busy session, i would love to get me a couple of those turbots

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thanks Seamus, you are welcome up to donegal to get one for your self :wink:
Al and Jordan wrote:nice one grady :P a good mix there 8)
cheers Al, would be nice to see you guys up in those waters to wet a line :D
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