North Wicklow Beach 29th June

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North Wicklow Beach 29th June

#1 Post by eyesreilly »

People:me, Mitch, Neil Brown and Eoin

Duration:6pm-midnight

Tide:low approx 9pm

[b,]Weather[/b]:beautiful evening

Bait:crab, rag and lug

Rigs:pulleys and flappers

Results:smoothies, dogs, dabs and plaice,,,,,,and a pin whiting for Fishface :wink:




Report:We returned to this beach again last evening as it had been consistently good for the last few weeks. I was first on site and had a good bite on my first cast which didnt develop into anything unfortunately but which was a good sign :wink: . Mitch arrived next and as he set up I had a fish take my crab bait, probably a smoothie, but he dropped off coming over the bank :cry: . Another lump of frozen crab was sent out and it was third time lucky for me as I noticed a definate Smoothie take,,,,,Bang,,Bang ,,Bang,,,,and I lifted into it and after my first decent scrap of the year, in came a nice medium sized Smoothie :lol: . Mitch was next in with a doggie sized pup smoothie and then it was dabs on the 3 hook flapper on rag followed by my first Plaice of the year. Neil Brown aka Fishface arrived with his nephew Eoin . Neil was to show Eoin his Smoothie Bagging techniques but alas it was Eoin who turned the tables and ended up giving us all a fishing lesson :oops: . So now we were at the stage where myself , Mitch and Eoin had bagged a Smoothie each 8) ,,,but poor Neil was reduced to showing passers-by photos of his past glories,,sad to witness a great angler reduced to this level. Fortunately for him he had a take soon after and after a battle , landed a Smoothie. The main reason for the battle was that the Smoothie was unfortunately foul hooked :wink: ,,,and when we saw this we didn't let Neil off the hook either :lol: . After this the fishing was very slow and only for a couple of doggies and bikini clad beauties on the beach, we would have had nothing to keep our interest, but as the sun faded and the clothes came back on , we hoped the fish might yet make a re-appearance. :roll: . As the tide rose our hope was re-ignited when Mitch had a belter of a fight from a hound which took him walking down the beach 50 or 60 yds. This hound kept us there a good hour after we probably would have gone home but what the hell ,,,,another lesson learned of tide /conditions etc :roll:

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Re: North Wicklow Beach 29th June

#2 Post by aido coxy »

Nice fishing lads!!!
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Re: North Wicklow Beach 29th June

#3 Post by the weasel »

Fairplay lads,nice session and report and photos .

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Re: North Wicklow Beach 29th June

#4 Post by tight lines »

Well done lads sounds like a good session was had and some nice smuts caught cant ask for much more
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Re: North Wicklow Beach 29th June

#5 Post by Brian D »

Another good report,U did not miss anything on Ballymoney myself and J1 only caught 3 small Smoothounds..........
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Re: North Wicklow Beach 29th June

#6 Post by sparkey+1 »

Some nice hounds there well done Lads
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Re: North Wicklow Beach 29th June

#7 Post by stevo74 »

Nice goin lads. Good to hear the biggies are about....
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Re: North Wicklow Beach 29th June

#8 Post by freedom1916 »

Nice going lads tired Wicklow on Saturday from 1 till about 5 and only got two tiny flounder.:-(:-(:-(:-(:-(
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Re: North Wicklow Beach 29th June

#9 Post by JOHN1 »

nice fishing lads,and a grand little read again dave :wink:
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