We met at 2pm to overcast conditions but thankfully the rain stayed off and some blue skies actually emerged. It was cold but we were both well prepared; we started fishing a dropping tide.
johnwest got into a fish pretty much straight away, a wee flounder, blank saved and time to relax a little
And as the day and evening progressed he continued to catch a succession of flounder (with a turbot thrown in for good measure), he was doing alright I guess. I eventually came up with a fish though, a flounder of 30cm (I was focusing on quality rather than quantity
, which I knocked on the head and had if for breakfast the next morning. Unfortunately no bass were caught by either of us but it was an enjoyable session nonethelless - if only for the scenery and the clear starry night. We packed up around 9pm after JWs tackle box had decided that it fancied a dip in the waves 
- thankfully most contents were retrieved. When we returned to our cars we found them well frozen up, my thermometer read -3C.There were plenty of anglers on the shore that day, we were flanked by a couple either side of us and we heard of others on beaches close by. Any chat I had was the same sort of tone: Aye, there was a bass of 3lb caught here 2 weeks ago, a 6lb fish 3 weeks before that, a few schoolies in between, etc. But its only when you tried to quantify things that you really got the bigger picture, which was that there were a LOT of anglers putting in a LOT of hours for those few fish!
Sunday saw myself head down to the Glens of Antrim for a short session in the afternoon to see if I could improve on the weekend fish tally, but I only managed a small cod, a scorpion fish and a small rockling over a few hours. Had plenty of small bites but they came to nothing most of the time and the rod at distance, which had a bigger bait, was completely untouched.
Another nice day though and I had a good chat with a few guys diving from the pier, they showed my some great underwater footage once they had re-surfaced. Cathalger came down for a chinwag too, and I packed up about 5.30pm when nothing continued to happen into darkness either..
A few pics
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