SOUTH COAST COD 2018 reports

[donal domeney]

JD have some of the results posted.
Had another cod caught before the big one that measured 55cm. So I had the two biggest cod on the night.
There were a few 3lb fish caught off Ferrypoint on Sunday.

[basshunter10]

Good going. Seen the results there. Few good coalies about too. Seems to have been a good day.


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[robbiekennedy]

Just back from under bridge again , fish a cast , only thing is all 4-5 inches long , maybe darkness is key , there was a fair pull there aswell , suppose tides will have that place finished for another week or so, back to scratching on the beaches again

[donal domeney]

The two biggest cod caught on the beach that night, both by me

top fish @ 55cm and the winner @ 68cm

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[donal domeney]

Not cod but still worth a cast fished a comp in Cobh yesterday, behind the Garda station, about 100 whiting caught that were over the 30cm with a few getting measures over 40cm.

[eddyfletch]

Not south coast but had two small codling 25cm from Shannon estuary

[sea serpant]

Me and friends have had a good few codling around the 2lb mark off a few of the south wexford beaches in the last week

[codmac]

Am thinking of a trip to the mud hole next week. Any updates on how it is fishing lately??

[cd07]

Has anyone had any luck on kilogram beach lately or ballyvalden? Thanks

[cd07]

I meant kilgorman beach!

[Woulfec]

Well lads. going to youghal in search of my first cod. any reports? and and places i should go to increase the odds?
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[shortcircuit]

Well lads. going to youghal in search of my first cod. any reports? and and places i should go to increase the odds?
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As far as I can see, Ferrypoint in Youghal is one of the best spots going.

Best time to fish it is at low water. It probably fishes ok over high water too but I never fished high water. Any other time the tide is too strong and it's impossible to hold bottom. Like a lot of estuary marks neap tides will give you a bigger window to fish.

I'd say it would be no harm to give Donal Domeney a pm he always is very free with advice and I met him once in person and he is a gent. There is no one more knowledgeable on the cod fishing in Cork.

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Great post from Donal on this thread on the different youghal marks and locations

[Woulfec]

Thanks very much buddy.
Funny you say that I was reading all the past archived posts on cod and seen his huge input in all of them. So I have wrote to him already he had great advice regarding tides and too said same spot.
I was just writing to see any recent reports.
I will throw up a post after my trip to see how we went.

Cheers for the help

[Paddy002]

Hi All,

headed to the Youghal estuary last Saturday to see if i could pick up my first cod of the year! cleaned out the freezer and headed off with a mix of crab, squid, razor mackerel, lug. coditions were ideal, nice bright day and not a puff of wind.

I set up around mid way through the fill. Fished 1 rod solely with crab and the other with variants of all the rest.

To my amazement 80%+ of casts with the crab took in a small codling 0.5lb-2lb with a success rate of zero on the other rod!!

Lesson learned for (which i was told before but didnt listen ) If you dont have crab to at least tip your baits with your at nothing fishing youghal

[Clive O Driscoll]

Went down to Greenpark? The wall across from the Walter Raleigh yesterday,

Fished 3 hours of the coming flood and 2 of the ebb, Fresh live Crab and sandeel for bait.
Had 5 Good size whiting, missed at least 6 more, and all the action came at 6.30 - 700 so just as the Flood was in fully.

2 others next to me, 1 had 5 codling All on Worm baits, first I've ever heard of it but there you go. And I believe the other had fish too but didn't find out what they were.. Beautiful night anyway.

[donal domeney]

Fished the Abbey on Sunday high water 10:00, started at about 09:30. Had 9 cod between then and 13:00, over the 30cm size, with plenty
27-30cm as well. Not a fish the 30cm size after that.

[ste c]

I think the run of them are gone

[Clive O Driscoll]

Fished Ferrypoint last thursday just before 2.00 as the tide was out, got me species - 2 codling - tiny but still and 2 Coalies, on crab.

[donal domeney]

I think the run of them are gone

To be honest the run never started. Hopefully the drop in temperatures might bring a few of the bigger fellows.

My tally for the winter was 3 cod over 6lb. 5 cod between 5 and 6lb and about 20 cod between 3 and 5lb. I've seen better from Youghal.

[ste c]

There was a run of them in the waterford estuary as id a good few out i heard youghal wasnt great you seemed to have got a few decent 1s donal nice going