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Duration: 7am to 1pm.
Weather: flat calm.
Bait: rag & lug
Rigs: two hook and one hook flappers
Results: wrasse, rockling and a seagull.
Report:
went out and dug a bit of bait on Saturday to give Corbawn Lane a shot on the Sunday morning. was hoping I might pick up a bass but it might have been a little to calm for them. fished around 100 yards to the left of Corbawn we had a good few ballan wrasse and missed a few cracking bites as well. id say most of the wrasse were 1.5lb or smaller no real big monsters. I had just put back one of the wrasse when I noticed one of the rods jumping out of the stand. taught I was into a monster. but when I ran up to the rod to see what was going on I noticed a big black back gull tangled in my line. he had tried to get the fish I had just put back. after a good two minute fight I was able to beach the bird and free it. not an easy task. after that it went a bit quite so I moved around 50 yards to the right of the entrance where we found the wrasse again and a monster of a rockling never seen one like it before it was black as well. all the wrasse were a lovely golden colour as well.
Duration: 7am to 1pm.
Weather: flat calm.
Bait: rag & lug
Rigs: two hook and one hook flappers
Results: wrasse, rockling and a seagull.
Report:
went out and dug a bit of bait on Saturday to give Corbawn Lane a shot on the Sunday morning. was hoping I might pick up a bass but it might have been a little to calm for them. fished around 100 yards to the left of Corbawn we had a good few ballan wrasse and missed a few cracking bites as well. id say most of the wrasse were 1.5lb or smaller no real big monsters. I had just put back one of the wrasse when I noticed one of the rods jumping out of the stand. taught I was into a monster. but when I ran up to the rod to see what was going on I noticed a big black back gull tangled in my line. he had tried to get the fish I had just put back. after a good two minute fight I was able to beach the bird and free it. not an easy task. after that it went a bit quite so I moved around 50 yards to the right of the entrance where we found the wrasse again and a monster of a rockling never seen one like it before it was black as well. all the wrasse were a lovely golden colour as well.
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Re: Shankill - Co. Dublin
Next time a bird is entangled in your line, throw a dark coloured rag over his head, this calms it down and it is a lot easier to get it out. Less scars to take care of too 
Not a bad result tough, considering the flat calm conditions, bass are generally hard to tempt when there is not much movement in the water.

Not a bad result tough, considering the flat calm conditions, bass are generally hard to tempt when there is not much movement in the water.
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Re: Shankill - Co. Dublin
I was going to throw my jumper over it but I didn't want to get bird shite all over it. 

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Re: Shankill - Co. Dublin
plenty of big stones on corbawn beach you could have stunned the gull with one of them




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Re: Shankill - Co. Dublin
Ye that was plan B John.
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Re: Shankill - Co. Dublin
Fair play Samo nice few fish.
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Re: Shankill - Co. Dublin
Not sure if you can stun a protected species though John.plenty of big stones on corbawn beach you could have stunned the gull with one of them![]()
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Re: Shankill - Co. Dublin
i think they might only be protected if you want to set out to kill them,knocking one out wouldnt be killing ityappo wrote:Not sure if you can stun a protected species though John.plenty of big stones on corbawn beach you could have stunned the gull with one of them![]()
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Oh No, I feel a song coming on.. perhaps from a Flock Of SeagullsJOHN1 wrote:i think they might only be protected if you want to set out to kill them,knocking one out wouldnt be killing ityappo wrote:Not sure if you can stun a protected species though John.plenty of big stones on corbawn beach you could have stunned the gull with one of them![]()
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Yappoi know they can be killed around airfields, samo would have had a perfect excuse to kill it with the air show happening up the road in Bray the following day
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Re: Shankill - Co. Dublin
Never realised Shankhill held much sport, nice report.
How do you manage to fish the rough ground without losing a tonne of gear? Teach me
That Seagull didn't have a Feed Shallow 14 stuck to his leg by any chance?
How do you manage to fish the rough ground without losing a tonne of gear? Teach me

That Seagull didn't have a Feed Shallow 14 stuck to his leg by any chance?
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I was expecting to lose a lot of gear but it seemed to be just weed I was getting in. I was using 15lb snoods on a 60lb trace body so if I did get stuck they would have just snapped. stopped using a trailing hook after a while because it was constantly getting stuck and just fished with one hook up off the bottom. not feed shallow in his leg 

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Re: Shankill - Co. Dublin
this helped me, went down my mark when the tide was really low, if you can get a good high vantage point to look down over the mark. take note of rock features , kelp beds and whatever else you can see, then u know were to cast and were not to cast, then wat samo said sorted . good hunting