WEED WATCH - Wicklow / Wexford

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Re: WEED WATCH - Wicklow / Wexford

#21 Post by thekid »

hi goldfish light red weed on monday.a bit of a swell but fishable.no heavy kelp at the coombe..... :lol:
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#22 Post by Richie07 »

Plenty of weed off Greystones shore, 19/07 dudes.
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#23 Post by marklocko »

Fished greystones last night south beach all clear
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#24 Post by Al »

marklocko wrote:Fished greystones last night south beach all clear
Richie07 wrote:Plenty of weed off Greystones shore, 19/07 dudes.

I'm so confused :lol:
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#25 Post by Richie07 »

Al wrote:
marklocko wrote:Fished greystones last night south beach all clear
Richie07 wrote:Plenty of weed off Greystones shore, 19/07 dudes.

I'm so confused :lol:
Well, water colour and weed along rocks and to left of harbour was very bad, weed everywhere, so looks like sth beach is the place to go.
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#26 Post by marklocko »

I fished south beach last night from 00.00 till 4.00 tide if around 3ish just at davids school
no weed.. no fish either other than few dogs
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#27 Post by tight lines »

ennereilly nice and clean 20/7/11
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#28 Post by paul skelly »

Hi all anyone know how south Wexford is at the mo ?
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#29 Post by marklocko »

ennereilly all good today :D
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#30 Post by marklocko »

ennereilly all clear last night and into this morning no fishing tho....
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#31 Post by fisherman59 »

roney pt to balinoulart 23rd to 25th small bits of weed up to 5 yds off shore otherwise no probs up to100 yds off shore hope this helps
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#32 Post by antokildare »

no problems 2day
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BALLYMONEY CLEAN LAST NIGHT 29/7/11
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#34 Post by southaussie »

floating weed a problem at ballinoulart after high tide nearly unfishable hardly any fish either :oops:
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#35 Post by paul skelly »

Kiloughter 30th alot of weed with a big run, 1 hour before and after high water run stopped and so did weed but just came back as the tide turned :(
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#36 Post by stevo74 »

Clones Strand 02/08 - small bit of floating weed but very fishable.....
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#37 Post by R D »

is there any weed in tinnebearna ?
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#38 Post by SHANE R »

Fished tinaberna on Tuesday it was tough going with weed. It did clear about an hour after high water.
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#39 Post by thekid »

weed=fish at the moment arround rosslare.south beaches are hard fishing.... :x :x
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#40 Post by corbyeire »

plenty of the bootlace stuff sinking your line in south wexford yesterday
plenty of eel grass also

braid probably the way to go if bait fishing
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