weekend in Wexford 20th - 22nd july 07

[stevecrow74]

People:myself, nige and teacher

Duration: 3 days
(friday night, saturday afternoon, saturday night and sunday afternoon)

Tide:laughable

Weather:various

Bait:rag crab squid mackerel sandeel lug

Rigs:various

Results:smuts tope flounder dab more smuts doggies and freshwater eel

Catch and Release:: Yes



Report:

friday
arrived in Courtown around 7pm, after a quick feeding we (myself and nige) met up with teacher and off to a near beach for a few hours, nige got his first smoothie(common) on i think first cast, second cast was a pup tope, third cast was a starry smut and fourth cast was a nice sized dab ( now thats what fishing is all about, teacher was bringing in a few smuts and dogs as well, all the while i was trying to get a fish
i moved position ( in between the two lads) and finally pulled out a flounder.. that saved me from an embarrassing blank


Saturday
myself and teacher went down to Courtown pier for a couple of hours to see if we could lad a few species, i pulled out a pup smut (common) and teacher pulled out a nice sized dab, nige arrived down towards the end of the session and poached a starry smut pup on my spinning rod
finished up there and went for food...

met up with teacher and went on the hunt for a few more rag worms before our trip down to Rosslare, rag acquired (and enough lead to sink a small boat) we headed off..
on arrival we say a car that looked very familiar (last time i saw it it had a flat tyre in Clonea), gathered all the bags and trekked to the mark and met Boycie and fintan packing up (apparently they were there 6 hours and only had a few dogs and no smuts, wasn't looking good for us )
after they left it was time for some serious fishing ( the whole reason for the weekend) on second cast teacher pulled out a nice 6 lbs common smoothie, soon after i pulled out a nice little 5.5lbs and the fish kept coming in well for some of us anyway.. there were also a few dogs pulled in too..
photos below and i'm sure teacher will up load a few as well


Sunday(today)

went down to courtown pier again to see what was about.. but a strong S/E wind made it hard.. and so did a flippin jet skier

only fished for a short while, teacher joined us for the last bit.. nothing much played ball except one little freshwater eel (species 26 for me)
then a long trek back home...



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[fishinmidget]

nice fishing.....have a shave !!!!!!!!!

[MC]

nice fishing lads, sorry i couldnt join you but had to work

[teacher]

Some hard fishing on both nights. In fairness to Steve, the beach we were fishing is very sensitive to location and moving a few yards can make a big difference. The conditions were poor and the rain was relentless. We were hoping for Bass but they're in short suply around here at the moment

The smoothound session on Saturday was also strange. Apart from one late fish, all the smoothies were caught on rag. We were fishing crab as usual and the rag was an afterthought but it was really doing the business over the whole weekend. There weren't as many fish as we had hoped for but it was entertaining.

We should thank Fintain and Boycie for groundbaiting the run for us and then clearing off leaving us to bask in glory. Thanks lads.

Here's a few more pics ...

[nige]

Another good session well kinda got the smutts and tope but both were on the small side will just have to travel down again sometime to get the big ones thanks to teacher for showing us the marks

[Seaniebo]

Good stuff lads. Steve you have to try the back door!