ring and clonakilty rock mark, 11-9-07

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#1 Post by **lumpy** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:57 pm

People:just myself

Duration:1130-1430 mullet, 1530-2030 bass/pollack

Tide:lw@13.30

Weather:overcast with f1 n breeze

Bait:bread flies and decievers

Rigs:n/a

Results:3 mullet to 2.5lbs, 15 pollack to 3 lbs

Catch and Release:: 1 mullet given to a french man who took a pic for me. all the rest released.

Report:

arrived in ring at half 11 and was greeted with about 2 dozen mullet rolling 10 feet from the shore.baited the area just down tide of them with 3 slices of bread. the eventually got feed ing after 15 mins but were very cautious. fished and continued to bait the area for the next hour until i had my first take which i subsequently missed. 10 mins later i had another one which i connected with for 2 seconds before my tippet broke at the dropper knot. not the ideal srtart but hope with them feeding. when the tide turned more fish came into the area and started hitting the floating bread very hard. eventually had a solid take on the sub surface bread fly, 3 mins later after a good struggle with one good run of about 20 yards i had a 1 1/2lb mullet, 20 mins later had another take which ripped the line out of my fingers and proceeded to run 30 yards. this one took about 5 mins before i had a slightly bigger mullet of 2 lbs. the next 30 mins saw me miss about 10 takes and loose a better fish of about 4 lbs before landing the final mullet of about 2 1/2lbs.

went home for a bite to eat then it was off to try a new mark for bass. suffice to say they didnt show but i did find a nice pollack mark with about 30 feet. had 15 pollack with the best touching 3 lbs. had loads of them about 1 lb, think the area would hold better fish in may and june when the better fish show.

#2 Post by **lumpy** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:05 pm

heres the best pollack

#3 Post by **lumpy** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:26 pm

out again this morning before work and had 2 more, one about a pound and another around 2.5 ish.bigger of them fought very well taking around 20yards of line on the first

#4 Post by **fishinmidget** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:12 pm

sweet. i love catching mullet on the fly!

#5 Post by **lumpy** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:33 pm

went out again this morn/afternoon before work and had 3 more, the 2 below and 1 about a pound weight.lost 2 more hwn the hook hold gave. pretty hard conditions as i had no polaroids and was casting into the wind.prob give it a break tomorro and try get one sunday on the 4wt if the wind dies.