Duration:a lot
Tide: all tides
Weather: fantastic
Bait: crab, lug, lazy lug, mackeral, sandeels, mussel
Rigs: mostly 2 / 3 hook flappers, some pulleys.
Results: 6 Doggies, 2 Bass (4 1/2 & 5 1/2 lbs), 1 Flounder, 1 small conger, 3 coalies
Catch and Release:: Yes/No. Kept one bass.
Report: Had planned an extended Easter break solely to go fishing around lahinch and for once it didn't rain on me non stop for the duration.
Somehow the wives and girlfriends accepted the fact that us lads were going to pay them no attention for the Easter as we were focused purely on getting a few decent fish. The brilliant weather made conditions difficult much of the time, brightness and little surf forced into doing a lot more all nighters than I had planned, as any daylight fishing was a waste of time (bar the conger i got near Blackhead) but with such great weather i didn't complain.
Fished Lahinch, White Strand, Cregg, Fanore, Doolin and Liscannor beaches over the weekend, and spent a few hours on the rocks by Blackhead one afternoon (watching people spinning for imaginary mackeral).
All the other fish were taken in a single session, at night in the 2 hours from high tide and into the turn, which was pretty frantic with some double shots of doggies and two bass almost simultaneously. The bass both went for the fresh lug, the flounder a sandeel, coalies on lug, doggies on everything. Can't moan about having one great session, having not been out since christmas.
Was a bit puzzled that the only difference I could see between the productive night and all the others was the clear sky, otherwise times tides etc were much the same.
Anyway great to be out again and to have one great session.
Bumped into neilus one night at Cregg beach: nice to meet you!!
