St. Helen's Bay. Wexford. 21/04/2007

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#1 Post by **gitboy** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:07 am

People:Myself and Paul

Duration: 5.30p.m. - 8.00p.m.

Tide: Flooding tide

Weather: Kinda overcast but nice, windy

Bait: Rag, Razorfish, Mackeral

Rigs: 2up,1down

Results: 11 Flounder( mostly around 25cm)

Catch and Release:: Yes

Report:

Fished this place a few years ago and had done pretty well with bass and gilthead bream being caught, we had no lug or peeler so weren't too hopeful of what we would catch. We wanted to fish the middle of the bay were it is deeper from what i could remember but couldn't find the access down to this part of the beach so we set up at the back of the golf club(the water here is very shallow up to full tide). Very interesting place to fish as the tide comes in and the channels fill with water its remarkable how quick the flounder fallow. We had nothing for a while just a few taps on the rod but as the tide stared to flood the flounder were on the feed. As an experiment i cast one rod behind me into a channel that was filling and five minutes later caught a 26cm flounder in 1ft of water..class. Very enjoyable fishing with light rods and braid. There were 6-7 anglers fishing the far end of the beach, seemed to be plugging or spinning don't know if they were catching.

#2 Post by **MAC** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:37 pm

Nice report mate..... Interesting to hear of another spot were GHSB are caught.......

I'd say the other guys were after Bass or Sea Trout.......

Kev

#3 Post by **gitboy** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:11 pm

Would have liken to stay longer (but had to drive back to dublin) as we left when the action was getting hot and better sized fish were coming on every cast. i say with the right bait and tide this would be a very productive mark(very bassy country).

i haven't ever played around with floating beads that much but was suprised to catch the more sizeable flounder on top snood with 2 large floating beads with a 3 inch muppet trapped in between and some green beads with razor. this made the snood float a good 16'' of the sea beach and the flounder still attacked it in gin clear conditions...