Co. Antrim beach big trout and specimen 3 beards 16.03.10
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Re: Co. Antrim beach big trout and specimen 3 beards 16.03.10
Very nice sea trout Al! Your having a cracking year so far 
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Re: Co. Antrim beach big trout and specimen 3 beards 16.03.10
Well done on the sea trout - that was a nice surprise

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Re: Co. Antrim beach big trout and specimen 3 beards 16.03.10
Cracking AL that is a nice lump of Sea trout. Those 3 beards are cracking looking love the markings on them.
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Re: Co. Antrim beach big trout and specimen 3 beards 16.03.10
great report al and well done thats a cracking sea trout
fishing here is slow to say the least, looking foward to next
month, hopefully things will pick up
fishing here is slow to say the least, looking foward to next
month, hopefully things will pick up
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Re: Co. Antrim beach big trout and specimen 3 beards 16.03.10
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Nice session Al. Sounds like it was miles better than ours.
cheers man. well, what we lacked in quantity, we more than made up for in quality
round_ourway
well done lads.. great report
thanks stevie, are you heading out at the weekend?
. sods law,, eh.
i think we'll bring the tent next time and make a weekend out of it. still have'nt got our causeway bass this year yet
but like i said, third time was the charm
hope that place turns on again soon
we'll be back at it again soon enough to have a bash at them
. you must be ill,, your as mad about the fishing as me
we'll have to wait another few weeks before we can target them at our marks again
best way to get rid of the flu,,, sterilize yourself from the inside out
but hopefully things will pick up soon 
Nice session Al. Sounds like it was miles better than ours.
cheers man. well, what we lacked in quantity, we more than made up for in quality
round_ourway
well done lads.. great report
thanks stevie, are you heading out at the weekend?
cheers man, we've just given up on county down at the minute as sea trout seem to be the only fish being caught in any great numbers at the moment.burt eg wrote:Another good session fellas, lovely colour off those rockling and at least somewhere is still throwing up a few fish on the antrim coast
thanks man.canning wrote:great session lads. great report
thanks noel. and to think i had 3 trips to sligo to try and get one and i get that nice one at one of our local marksdoggie3131 wrote:nice one lads,thats some sweet fishing,see al,once ya got the first seatrout they get easy to catch!![]()
jordan will kill ya though!
and well done dan thats a sweet rockling.
cheers eoin, made my previous one look like a fryeointarmey wrote:Well done lads! seriously nice seatrout and great pics too
thanks chris. i'll have to get jordan up there at the weekend to try for onechrisfeeney30 wrote:well done all, nice sea trout!
cheers paddy, really nice fight of himboyler wrote:Well done lad's that's a nice session.Some nice fish there and well done on that sea trout Al lovely fish
thanks don, great to discover we can target the big 3 beardys from the beach toofishermannum1 wrote:peacher of a trout al'![]()
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and nice 3 beardy dan, well done guys.
good reading again an nice pic's too!!!!
thanks rab. both of them were lost through my own stupidityrab01 wrote:Cracking Trout Al! Shame about the lost fish, gutted for you mate.
thanks dave. we deserve a bit of a good run of luck considering how we started the year offeyesreilly wrote:Well done Al,thats great getting decent fish like those,youre on a great roll at the moment,,,,,,love those rockling,lovely fish,(and the sea trout aint bad either!!![]()
cheers man.bubba gump shrimp wrote:well done lads some nice fish
thanks drew, certinly better than a session at the deeDrew wrote:Epic Lads. Epic.
nobuzz wrote:Thats a good night by any standards. All you needed was a Bass to top it off!
thanks brian. 2 weeksFisherKing wrote:Well done lads & thats a fine Trout Almust give them a shot myself soon haven't been out in two weeks
thanks man,,, ahh but you have thornies to play withlucky wrote:a lads your kiiling me,, with those sea trout,, still on my wish list.. weldone...
thanks dennis.dbrock wrote:Well done on the sea trout
thanks zeke. i traded in the chicken soup for a load of hot whiskeyszeke wrote:great to see you back in action Al,chicken soup![]()
nice sea trout and well done Dan on your muscle rockling
cheers man. got off to a bit of a bumpy start, but we're getting theredfella25 wrote:Very nice sea trout Al! Your having a cracking year so far
i can happily live with those kinds of unexpected surprises frankRockHunter wrote:Well done on the sea trout - that was a nice surprise![]()
thanks jonny, he would have eaten my first sea trout for breakfastnifisher wrote:Cracking AL that is a nice lump of Sea trout. Those 3 beards are cracking looking love the markings on them.
cheers ger. i had a go at some of our summer wrasse and pollack marks recently. and all i got for my efforts was the dreaded cheque book and penmitch wrote:great report al and well done thats a cracking sea trout![]()
fishing here is slow to say the least, looking foward to next
month, hopefully things will pick up
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Re: Co. Antrim beach big trout and specimen 3 beards 16.03.10
Yes another great session was made with my new PB rockling. Turning into Al's lucky charm with him having 5 new PB and 1 new species in last 4 trips thanks again for letting me tag along Al
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Re: Co. Antrim beach big trout and specimen 3 beards 16.03.10
What a session lads. That is very good fishing. Congrats on new pb's. well pleased for ya's.
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Re: Co. Antrim beach big trout and specimen 3 beards 16.03.10
the seatrout is a kelt,ie spawned trout dropping out of a river long and skinny,take a look at chris feenys seatrout caught in galway real fat healthy fish
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Re: Co. Antrim beach big trout and specimen 3 beards 16.03.10
Seatrout seem to be that way at this time of year John. Apparently it takes till May before they are back to full health.
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Re: Co. Antrim beach big trout and specimen 3 beards 16.03.10
yeah and about a pound heavier as well,used to hammer seatrout in march and april in portstewart spinning ,all spawned out fish souldnt fish sandeel because the swallowed the hooks
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Re: Co. Antrim beach big trout and specimen 3 beards 16.03.10
no probs dan, your more than welcome. ready to do it all over again on mondaydan belfast wrote:Yes another great session was made with my new PB rockling. Turning into Al's lucky charm with him having 5 new PB and 1 new species in last 4 trips thanks again for letting me tag along Al
thanks dawsey. we'll have to get you out over easter for a go at themDawsey wrote:What a session lads. That is very good fishing. Congrats on new pb's. well pleased for ya's.
fat healthy fish or skinny kelt,,, all the same to me johnjohnfish wrote:the seatrout is a kelt,ie spawned trout dropping out of a river long and skinny,take a look at chris feenys seatrout caught in galway real fat healthy fish
johnfish wrote: souldnt fish sandeel because the swallowed the hooks
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Re: Co. Antrim beach big trout and specimen 3 beards 16.03.10
couldnt fish sand eel because the trout swallowed the hooks,deep hooking difficult to release withouyt damaging the trout ,you get it now
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Re: Co. Antrim beach big trout and specimen 3 beards 16.03.10
the seatrout Al caught was smashing fish
considering the amount of small coalies and suicidal whiting that normally we normally catch on that beach. As for using the sandeel it is a bait Al always uses on all his trips he swears by it
as not to many fish will turn it down. The pic maybe didnt do the fish justice it deserved. It had plenty off fight left him after a great tussle on Als spinning rod and was a great sufrprise for us on a slow days angling.
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