Courtown-Ballymoney 25/08/2012

[Deleted User 3488]

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People:Myself, Mo and Daithi

Duration: 8pm-3am

Tide: confused

Weather: slack wind and calm seas

Bait: Peeler Crab, Mackerel, Squid.

Rigs: Pulleys and 1 hook flappers

Results: Smoothound, Dab, Whiting, LSD, Ray.

We arrived at the beach shortly after 7pm and were fishing by 8.

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The sea was very coloured with a bit of a break on the surface.
Things were very slow ( a few pups) untill it got dark.
As darkness fell we started to get the odd dogfish and the pups were still shredding baits.
Shortly after 1am Daithi got a nice smoothie about 4lb, this was followed by another 2 about 15-20 mins apart.
I got a good bite about 2.30, left it to develop but rod the remained motionless.
A couple of minutes later I noticed a few nudges on the rod tip.
I lifted into the fish and thought to myself " this is a nice fish"..
When reeling the fish in I said to myself this isnt a smoothie, must be a clonker of a dogfish.
Landed the fish on the beach, a cracking little Ray with a wingspan of about 45 cm.
I was more than delighted with my first Ray of the year, my first Ray ever in actuall fact.
All in all it was a cracking evening for fishing, the weather was kind, the seas were calm, and the Ray were obliging.




Report:

[roryodonnell]

Well done on the ray. It's always nice to get a new species

[mitch]

very nice well done

[jhcabs]

Where you guys beside the river down in courtown? i think i was chatting with you guys.

I got a nice ray that night too. must have been the right conditions

Welldone on the Ray. nice size alright

[Deleted User 3488]

Where you guys beside the river down in courtown? i think i was chatting with you guys.

I got a nice ray that night too. must have been the right conditions

Welldone on the Ray. nice size alright

Ahh i think it might have been us,,was talking to a couple of anglers that night,,

[jhcabs]

The guys i'm thinking of where talking about fishing down in waterford before heading up to north wexford. i thik they where moving about fishing all weekend.

[eyesreilly]

Well done and congrats on the ray I take it you got the fish on the rise

[Deleted User 3488]

The guys i'm thinking of where talking about fishing down in waterford before heading up to north wexford. i thik they where moving about fishing all weekend.

I think we were on a beach a bit further north of ya.

[Deleted User 3488]

Well done and congrats on the ray I take it you got the fish on the rise

To be honest Eyes i dont know what the tide was doing,,,easy tide said high tide around 2am, but between 8pm and 2am the tide had dropped at least a metre...mad place.

[jhcabs]

Well done and congrats on the ray I take it you got the fish on the rise

To be honest Eyes i dont know what the tide was doing,,,easy tide said high tide around 2am, but between 8pm and 2am the tide had dropped at least a metre...mad place.

Yeah i noticed that too. the lads where saying i got the tides wrong but easy tide said 2am and someone told me to add another hour on to be safe.

[robbiemag]

Well done. Nice fishin. Fished there last week and nothin showed. Ye must of got the right weather.

[Deleted User 3488]

Cheers Rob, nice bit of weather heading our way this weekend,,,might bring them in closer.

Well done. Nice fishin. Fished there last week and nothin showed. Ye must of got the right weather.

[Moldaguus]

There was great action that evening it was great craic, I'm guessing you were the guys closer to ballymoney than courtown? could see a good few lights in the distance from head lights lol

[lucky13]

nice fishing monkeywrasse,congrats on the pb ray...lovely report too..well worded as always

[Deleted User 3488]

Cheer mate.
Yeah that was probably us allright.
The fine weather this week might encourage some decent fish onto them beaches.

There was great action that evening it was great craic, I'm guessing you were the guys closer to ballymoney than courtown? could see a good few lights in the distance from head lights lol

[Deleted User 3488]

It was nice to finally get a Ray. Just wondering is it a Thornback?,,one or 2 lads have said they rnt sure.
All this high pressure and settled weather this week might see my Ray talley go up

nice fishing monkeywrasse,congrats on the pb ray...lovely report too..well worded as always

[magpie01]

Looks like a savage session! Well done! Nice Smoothies and Ray!

[ShaneH]

It was nice to finally get a Ray. Just wondering is it a Thornback?,,one or 2 lads have said they rnt sure.
All this high pressure and settled weather this week might see my Ray talley go up

nice fishing monkeywrasse,congrats on the pb ray...lovely report too..well worded as always

its a Thornback im not having a go at you monkywrasse but alot of people on this forum need to invest in a good fish species book it should be the first thing you learn when you start this sport I.M.O

[Deleted User 3488]

It was nice to finally get a Ray. Just wondering is it a Thornback?,,one or 2 lads have said they rnt sure.
All this high pressure and settled weather this week might see my Ray talley go up

nice fishing monkeywrasse,congrats on the pb ray...lovely report too..well worded as always

its a Thornback im not having a go at you monkywrasse but alot of people on this forum need to invest in a good fish species book it should be the first thing you learn when you start this sport I.M.O

Cheers Shane.
I'll ask the Missus to get me one for the crimbo

[d2FISH]

It was nice to finally get a Ray. Just wondering is it a Thornback?,,one or 2 lads have said they rnt sure.
All this high pressure and settled weather this week might see my Ray talley go up

nice fishing monkeywrasse,congrats on the pb ray...lovely report too..well worded as always

its a Thornback im not having a go at you monkywrasse but alot of people on this forum need to invest in a good fish species book it should be the first thing you learn when you start this sport I.M.O

i taught the first ting to learn is how to cast when u first start fishing not havin a go at u like