Duration:8.30pm to 10.30pm
Tide:LW @ 18.50
Weather:Horizontal rain.....lots of it....
Bait:Razor, Rag, Mack.
Rigs:Big Pulleys, 3 hook flaps
Results:Me-1 bass and a coalie, Paul 1 bass, Donal 1 coalie.
Catch and Release:: Well, the main thing is the bass both went back with no problems but the poor old coalies didnt make it. Swallowing a 3/0 into your stomach can do that.....
Report: Not a lot to report on a nasty enough evening in South Cork. Started out fine but it wasnt long before the heavens opened. I had to ditch the specs and reach for the contact lenses as I couldnt see a damn thing. Conditions were nice with a decent enough bit of surf combined with a rising tide.
Paul struck first, unsurprising as myself and Donal had been fannying around, eating takeaway and chewing the fat. He pulled in a schoolie of perhaps a pound and a half or so. Not long after that, myself and Donal had coalies at the same time both around the 32-33 cm mark.
An hour passed before a clonking bite to a full razor fished at range saw me wind into another schoolie, again, around the 1.5lb mark. Gave it a small while longer after that but with conditions getting no better we got the hell off the beach and headed home.
All fish came on Razor, I fished a large razor bait at range mounted on a 3/0 long pulley rig. I also had a 3 hook flapper to size 2s fishing in the suds baited with a variety of rag, slivers of mackerel etc. Surprisingly, not a flattie to be had....
Unusual for here.We were a little late arriving, I prefer to fish these beaches one hour down 2-3 up and usually find the bigger fish come earlier in the session, followed by small stuff after. I must fish a tide through some day and see what happens.
