People:Me
Duration:2.5hrs
Tide:Up to high tide.
Weather:East wind, occasional flurries of snow and hail
Bait:Fresh lug, a few white rag and frozen mackerel
Rigs: 2,3 hook flappers
Results:You must be joking.
Report:
I hadn't been out in a while, was getting "the itch"and succumbed to the urge to scratch. I dug a couple of dozen lug which if nothing else, warmed me up. To combat the cold I wrapped up in more layers than an onion, set up 2 rods and, when the tide was well in, started fishing. Not so much as a bite in the next 2.5 hrs, the baits were totally ignored. Approaching high water the waves were picking up a lot of weed from the previous tide mark making it impossible to fish comfortably so having had a good scratch I packed up. The "Wee County" is well named; it's just one hungry acre at the moment.
Louth Coast, 27/3/13
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johnwest
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Louth Coast, 27/3/13
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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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2016 species; 32
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Re: Louth Coast, 27/3/13
Hard luck JW. I'm planning to 'scratch the itch' at the weekend up in Donegal. Anything will be a bonus!
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Re: Louth Coast, 27/3/13
jw the beaches are very bleak at the moment,,cold air,cold water temps means cold sand/cold surf so its a no go.thats if it was a beach you were fishing etc,,,,,,,me and a mate are planning on going tommorow but gonna opt for a deep water mark instead of beach,,,nice to be out all the same i bet
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Re: Louth Coast, 27/3/13
hard luck but at least you blew the cobwebs out 
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Re: Louth Coast, 27/3/13
Hard luck with the blank,,hauling a fish off any East coast beach this week will be nothing short of a miracle with them seas.
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Re: Louth Coast, 27/3/13
Fair play for heading out JW and its no surprise with that weather for blanking. Hope you got some cream for the "itch" 
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