People: Myself
Duration: Last hour of flooding tide, 8.00 -9.00pm
Tide: Last hour of flooding tide
Weather: Couldn't be any better for feather flicken, warm with a slight breeze and no swell.
Bait: Yellow and white deceiver and a shrimp imitation.
Rigs: 3/4 of a super fast sinking shooting tip (recently snapped) and about 10 feet of 2.7kg cast.
Results: 7-8 pollack last night, 5 pollack tonight
Catch and Release:: Yes
Report: Just a note to other people who frequent this location, the true name of the spot is Hawk-Cliff. I have frequented this spot at least every week for the last number of weeks for SWFF. When I originally started fishing here, the fishing was exceptionally good but now I have noticed that the catch rates have started to decline. This I can only imagine is a result of the fish coping onto "what to eat" and "what has a hook in it". The blue and white deceiver that I originally used are literally useless, I turned to a yellow and white deceiver, which has now run its course and is no longer attractive. The latest accessory I have in my fly box and is working a treat, is a shrimp imitation that was salvaged by my brother from a Hookii shrimp rig. It has been retrofitted with more tinsel and a sturdier hook (see pic). The pollack went for it in a big way, however, I would have had much better luck with a much smaller trout/salmon fly of black colouration with wing casings as the pollack where surface feeding on the abundant flying ants that annually make an appearance in south county Dublin. If conditions continue to be warm and humid I will try again tomorrow with a 5wt rod and try and get the pollack to take on a dry-fly. I shall report back tomorrow.
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Hawk-Cliff, aka Sorrento/Nudist beach 23/08/07
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deno
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jack01986
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Id started to notice that as well had been using blue decievers at the start and noticed the catch rate fall over the couple of weeks I have fished there. Time to start tieing up some diferent patterns I think. Had some success with a glister shrimp but your fly look a lot more realistic than mine does. I have been away for a few weeks so am looking foward to getting back and fishing there again might see you sown there somtime soon.
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deno
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Hey Jack,
If you are looking to get a similar realistic shrimp imitation like the one I have above. You can get them in most tackle shops. I think they are fairly reasonable in price and you can chop up the rig and get five flies out of it.
[img]http://www.g-sport.no/upload/8334/riggs6.jpg[/img]
The only problem is that the hook on the trace is a spade end hook, therefore, you have two options. Cut the trace at the beginning of the snood and attach this with a loop to loop onto your cast, or like my brother did, add a new hook and fix the shrimp to the shank with a small amount of resin. Not sure if he used resin or super glue, he is on the forum so he might be able to comment.
If the wind drops I am going to pop down again this evening for about 7.30 and fish the rising tide. On another note I was down on Killiney beach this morning at 6.30am. It was a beautiful morning and there was plenty of silver coloured fishing moving, jumping and splashing about. Not sure exactly what there were. I didn't get a touch with the fly but I broke out the spinning rod and with a Toby. I'm nearly sure ( could have been my mind playing tricks on me) that I missed a fish on the first cast. On my second cast I lost the toby to the rocks, and since my brother wasn't there for me to rob any more of his spinners, that was the end of that and I went back to the fly-fishing. At least my morning wasn't as bad as another guy I met, he was climbing over the large rock outcrop that divides the beach, he slipped, fell and broke the tip off his new rod! At 7.00am, that is never a good way to start a weekend!
If you are looking to get a similar realistic shrimp imitation like the one I have above. You can get them in most tackle shops. I think they are fairly reasonable in price and you can chop up the rig and get five flies out of it.
[img]http://www.g-sport.no/upload/8334/riggs6.jpg[/img]
The only problem is that the hook on the trace is a spade end hook, therefore, you have two options. Cut the trace at the beginning of the snood and attach this with a loop to loop onto your cast, or like my brother did, add a new hook and fix the shrimp to the shank with a small amount of resin. Not sure if he used resin or super glue, he is on the forum so he might be able to comment.
If the wind drops I am going to pop down again this evening for about 7.30 and fish the rising tide. On another note I was down on Killiney beach this morning at 6.30am. It was a beautiful morning and there was plenty of silver coloured fishing moving, jumping and splashing about. Not sure exactly what there were. I didn't get a touch with the fly but I broke out the spinning rod and with a Toby. I'm nearly sure ( could have been my mind playing tricks on me) that I missed a fish on the first cast. On my second cast I lost the toby to the rocks, and since my brother wasn't there for me to rob any more of his spinners, that was the end of that and I went back to the fly-fishing. At least my morning wasn't as bad as another guy I met, he was climbing over the large rock outcrop that divides the beach, he slipped, fell and broke the tip off his new rod! At 7.00am, that is never a good way to start a weekend!
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Bombax
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Shrimp Fly
One thing to say!
lucky i took my bag of Plugs/spinners back :lol:
As for the Shrimp fly. The plastic shrimp comes off its original hook pretty handy!
Then i just tied flashy stuff (Flashabou??) to the bend of a size 4/6 Aberdeen hook and varnished down the tied ends. let it dry and applied another coat of varnish onto the knot and a little along the hook shank. then i forced the shrimp down over the eye of the hook and a little over the lump of tied material and let it set. Easy..
Good luck this evening 8)
lucky i took my bag of Plugs/spinners back :lol:
As for the Shrimp fly. The plastic shrimp comes off its original hook pretty handy!
Then i just tied flashy stuff (Flashabou??) to the bend of a size 4/6 Aberdeen hook and varnished down the tied ends. let it dry and applied another coat of varnish onto the knot and a little along the hook shank. then i forced the shrimp down over the eye of the hook and a little over the lump of tied material and let it set. Easy..
Good luck this evening 8)
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deno
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Made a trip back down on the night of the 23rd to try and get the pollack to feed on the dry fly (flying any imitation). The time and tide was idea and the fish went for the fly in a big way. I retrieved relatively slowly and fish showed interest on most casts, however, fishing a small surface fly was a lot more difficult than I have previously anticipated. I could feel the fish hitting the fly but my reaction time to strike the fish must be very poor as out of 30mins of fishing and numerous takes I only landed two fish. Given the fact that I was doing so poorly, I change the dry fly for the above shrimp with a larger hook and my success rate increased significantly. Over the next half an hour to an hour the fishing picked up considerably with shoals of small pollack clearing the water in all direction feeding on some sort of bait fish. Withing that time frame I would have put a rough estimate on the number of fish I caught to be 25+. I also must add that the level of enjoyment was also increased with the lighter 5wt rod. I visited the same spot again this morning (7.00-9.30am) with my brother and we only managed to land five fish. It just goes to show how varied location can be even when the tides are the same (think it must have been the blistering sunshine).