Duration: 4or5 hours at each mark
Tide: in on the north coast, out on east coast
Weather: cold but fine, freezing
Bait: rag and razor
Report:
spent 5 hours on friday night past on the north coast hoping for one of its rare bass.. to no avail. there were three of us fishing with others just up from us but no bass were caught by anyone. i managed a little flounder the whole evening - it wasnt even hooked, it had swallow the whole worm and the butt of the 4/0 hook and it wasnt letting go! - and there were a couple of small rockling caught amongst the other boys. a freezing but pleasant evening on the beach, well wrapped up
Saturday came and i had plenty of bait left over so decided i would have a bash at getting a winter cod in the Glens of Antrim. headed off after the football game (wasnt expecting too much, but hoping for the best..
) at about 3.30pm and drove over the mountain and on to red bay (was pretty shocked to see the 3or4 inches of snow around Cargan 
it was a true winter scene up there!). managed a few v.small codling and a few dogs but that was it unfortunately. mind you, it was nice just to have steady rattles on both rods as compared to the north coast..so the big cod eluded me as did the bass the night before
but i'll be back soon enough i reckon 
there was a bit of chat and craic the both nights but the fishing was pretty grim tbh. Was glad to meet Al & Jordan for the first time - nice one lads, im sure our paths will cross again some time in the future!..
so anyway, a few pics for yous to have a look at:
i had no idea what it was, just knew that it wasnt the velvet swimming crab. you seem very right indeed, Liocarcinus depurator, the harbour crab? or the sandy swimming crab? plenty of info online if you google it. never seen one before!
