Duration:2 days
Tide:
Weather:Rough as a badgers &(*&( on the saturday and lovely and sunny on the Sunday
Bait:Macs and rag
Rigs:
Results:Pollock, cuckoo wrasse, ballan wrasse, red gurnard, dogs
Report:Myself and Lord Davis headed to Killybegs for the Mariners SAC open boat comp. Himself arrived on Fri night along with the usual mountain of tackle and proceeded to laugh and poke fun out of my own, claiming that my boat rod wouldn't look out of place fishing for shark
Saturday morning dawned wet, nasty and blowing a force 7 southwesterly. Joy of joys! Even heading out past the new pier there was a big swell rolling in and by the time we got out past the lighthouse it was bloody dreadfull. The swell thrown up was massive and at times staying on your feet was a job in itself. With access to the outer bay now of the cards it wasnt surprising that the fishing was very poor with most anglers failing to bring more than 5 counters to the stick, pollock were very small and not one came aboard the boat I was on. Petekd was getting pollock but none were making the size. Wrasse then were the main counters for all of us. It was as one man put it, "like watching teddy bears in the washing machine". Got so bad that I even chundered at one point, setting the previous nights mushroom tagliatelle free
By the end of the day Pete had four and I managed ten counters. Legs were covered in bruises by the end of it, being bashed around and generally trying to stay upright 
Day two was the complete opposite, the wind had died completely and the sun came out. Whilst there was still a groundswell we managed to get out to the better grounds and both of us managed our quota of pollock. It was then a case of feeling around for wrasse to put some more points on the board. It wasn't easy fishing by any means and aside from a spell in the last hour the pollock were really fussy and it was a job winkling the out, I think Petekd might have had them feeding a bit better on the boat he was on. Pete finished with 18 that day whilst i put 15 together so overall that gave himself a 12th place and myself a fifth. So all in all it wasn't too bad a weekend out. I think both of us learnt a stack over the two days and there was a fair bit of slagging too
I even had the laugh on the Sat night of watching Blobby demolish an Indian takeway which would normally have fed a small family 
, it's a 100% a man again. Have you ever fished Brandon before. Will give you a few marks for there at the end of Oct. 