People:Me & Eugene Fitz
Duration:4 Hours
Tide:from low up
Weather:cool enough, bit of a westerly blowing
Bait:fresh crab & frozen Razor
Rigs:pulley pennels
Results:nada, 2 lost fish
Catch and Release:: Yes/No
Report:
Hit the beach with Fitzer about 8:30, went to our usual spot down from the car park entrance that served us so well in all but this year. Our First casts both with with peeler on got bites at the same time 5 minutes in, Euge hit into a fish and had him in the breakers when he came off, a codling of a couple of pounds I'd say. My rod was still nodding so I picked up and struck into a probable codling, nodded the hole way in, felt like quite a tidy fish but just when I saw the leader BANG...the lot went slack, dropped another one. We moved further down the beach close to the tunnel but had no joy there, not so much as a bite.
I don't know if anyone else can agree or hopefully disagree with me, but up here anyway there's seems to be very few codling around. Compared to my Diary two years ago when I fished a similar tide in almost identical conditions on halloween night I had 16 codling on 20 peelers and dropped a couple of fish, last year my haul was usually about 5 a session (almost always fished after easterlies) Ah well I was told Ballymoney was fishing very well but me and fitzer decided to plump for handiness, we got what we deserved.
Also seemed like a shoal of fish just began to sweep the beach as we began and then nothing, bites at the same time and then long periods of boredom. 4th blank in sucession, just ordered a Diawa Lonbeam so I can hit the channel at ""De Wall", hope a few of you local guys can show me the ropes over the next few weeks!!!
Greystones North Beach Co. Wicklow
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