Garretstown, Co Cork 21/08/07

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#1 Post by **thescotsman** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:12 pm

People: Me and Vjaceslavs

Duration: 21.00 - 23.30

Tide: neap tide, coming up to high

Weather: warm, calm and clear,

Bait: Freshly dug juicy lug

Rigs: 2 hook flapper, single hook, toby

Results: mackerel, 2 doggies

Catch and Release:: Yes to doggies, no to nice bait-fish

Report: Lovely evening to be down on the beach, but to be honest would have been happier with a bit of wind or something to give me some surf. Very calm, mackerel coming up onto the beach practically to get the sprat. Cast out the lug as far as I could on the beach caster and we spun out for the last bit of dusk and got a few macks. Went quiet after this. Got a big bite on my beach caster and the line went slack. A bass running into shore I thought, but turned out to be a doggy. Think its the first time I've had a doggy on lug.
Next few casts tried changing the distance and the rigs (went down to single hooks with longer snoods to get a bit of movement I hoped), no detectable bites, but something (maybe crabs) was stripping off my baits.
Moon was setting, very low in the sky the whole time we were there, blood red as it got nearer the horizon. Don't ever remember seeing it so low or set so close to the South as that, guess it must have been cloudy any other day like that?
With not much else happening, and my companion fed up with the lack of action and then getting himself a snap-off we decided to call it a night. I was just going to fish out the bait I'd just put out then go, when I got another good bang on the rod, followed by a screaming run in. Definitely a bass this time I thought. But no, when I managed to get the line tightened up and the fish to the beach it was a good sized dog. So, amazed as ever at the different ways doggies will take a bait, we left, but hopefully I'll try another spot tonight with my leftover lug for a couple of hours and bag myself a bass.

#2 Post by **petekd** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 1:49 pm

Nice one Lee, might pop down a run myself tonight with the spinning rod.

#3 Post by **thescotsman** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 2:19 pm

Good luck to you Pete. Was free of surfers when I got there, but there were people fishing in your favourite spot. I might head down this evening for a while with the kids and spin a bit and use up the rest of that lug, but then again I jmight leave it till later and head somewhere closer to home. So might see you down there.