Donegal 6 Feb 2012, 2 marks.

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Donegal 6 Feb 2012, 2 marks.

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People:Just me.

Duration:4 hrs + 4 hrs.

Tide:Low to high +2 hours ebb.

Weather:Foggy, calm, odd light shower but mild.

Bait:Frozen mackerel, frozen and fresh lug.

Rigs: 2 and 3 hook flappers.

Results:2 flounder, 1 turbot, 1 dab, 2 coalfish, 1x3b and 1x5b rockling and about 25 small whiting.




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Started off at a beach mark, got wrapped up and down to the water's edge in a state of total perspiration, I hadn't expected it to be mild, even warm. First cast produced a 24cm flounder on mackerel but how often do you get a fish first cast and then nothing for a long time after? Anyhow eventually a second flounder at 36cm weighed in, this one at range. A short time later a small but beautifully proportioned turbot took the mackerel bait, then nothing for the next 2 hours. By now it was just past half tide and there was quite a strong current sweeping across the beach, even 5oz Breakaways were rolling along. That along with just enough weed to cover the hooks every cast made me decide to change marks. At the second mark which usually fishes better into darkness, a few rattles on the rod tips turned out to be pin whiting until one rattle became a lovely 32cm dab. As darkness settled (somebody mention Guinness?) the bites became more frequent and a succession of whiting around the 22cm mark were interspersed with 2 coalfish @ 25cm, a 3b and a 5b rockling making up the numbers. A total of 7 species and 3 more for this year's species list made for an enjoyable day out.
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2013 species; 31

2014 species; 27

2015 species; 28

2016 species; 32

2017 species;28

2018 species; 33

2019 species; ballan wrasse,blonde ray, coalfish, cod, cuckoo wrasse, dab, dogfish, flounder, goldsinny wrasse, ling, mackerel, plaice, pollack, poorcod, pouting, scad, sea scorpion, spotty ray, spurdog, thornback, tub gurnard, turbot, whiting.
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Re: Donegal 6 Feb 2012, 2 marks.

#2 Post by FisherKing »

seven species is good going 8) i was up that way yesterday, tried a few hours on a beach & had some good fishing, the fog was very bad, you couldn't see any one walking till there right beside ya :shock:
Cheers Brian
Species 2017: Flounder, Turbot, Coalfish,
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Re: Donegal 6 Feb 2012, 2 marks.

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FisherKing wrote:seven species is good going 8) i was up that way yesterday, tried a few hours on a beach & had some good fishing, the fog was very bad, you couldn't see any one walking till there right beside ya :shock:
Perhaps we were on the same beach! What did you get yourself?
2013 species; 31

2014 species; 27

2015 species; 28

2016 species; 32

2017 species;28

2018 species; 33

2019 species; ballan wrasse,blonde ray, coalfish, cod, cuckoo wrasse, dab, dogfish, flounder, goldsinny wrasse, ling, mackerel, plaice, pollack, poorcod, pouting, scad, sea scorpion, spotty ray, spurdog, thornback, tub gurnard, turbot, whiting.
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Re: Donegal 6 Feb 2012, 2 marks.

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I don't think it was the same beach unless your hid in the fog , it was around 10 - 2 pm when i was out, I'll stick up a report & pics tomorrow night
Cheers Brian
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Re: Donegal 6 Feb 2012, 2 marks.

#5 Post by Creep »

Well done and that little Turbot is Beautiful!!! He's not going to find his way into one of your tins yet thought!!
Cracker Dab! Keep it up!!
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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

List 2012: (83) Whitting, (2) Plaice, (20) 5 Beard Rockling, (3) Coalie, (1) 3 Beard Rockling PB 40cm, (8)Pouting, (1) poor cod, (49) LSD(PB: 3lb.2oz), (1) Shore Rockling, (2) Codling, (2) Long Spine Scorpion, (6) Pollock (25) flounder (b) (1) mackrel (1) Turbot PB19cm (10)dab (6) Smooth Hound (2) Twaite Shad, (2)Thornback Ray(PB: 4lb 5oz), (34) Mackrel (Shore), (35) Lance PB31cm, (1) pipe fish, (1)Bull Huss 3lb 150z, (1) Octopus (2)corkwing wrasse, (1) Dragonet

List 2011: 16 species (267 fish caught)

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