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#1 Post by **eric** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:36 pm

People:me and 25 other competitors

Duration:2:30-6:30

Tide:high tide at around 3 i think

Weather:breezy and mildish

Bait:razor,mackerel and lugworm

Rigs:3 hook flappers

Results:41 fish, 11 of which where counters, 3 beard rockling,5 beard rockling,whiting, short spined sea scorpion and flounder made up the catch

Report: having never fished bray beach before i wasn't too hopeful of catching anything never mind doing ok :!: started alternating between different snood lengths from the beginning, first cast was a treble rockling, 2, 19cm and 1, 20cm, 'what the...' came to mind!! fair enough can't go wrong here, casting no more than 30 yards i was in to fish after fish, with so few counters appearing i began to get nervous, it was unfortunate i had 5 19cm in the first hour and only 2 counters!!, then i hit a couple of nice whiting over the magic 20.
decided to give distance a shot , trying to get my rig as close to the rivers outpour as possible hoping for a cod or two, i launched my rig as far as i could get it and needless to say i didn't make the 400 or so yard mark needed i landed a couple of undersized whiting on that cast, that was enough to ensure i stayed in close all day. as darkness fell i heard of a few decent flounders being caught so out went a few lug and macks into the suds, straight away i hooked my little flounder and got him measured in at a whopping 22cm.
the last few hours in darkness began a whiting onslaught with at least doubles coming in every cast :shock: finally ended up with 11 counters and 41 fish in total not bad at all.

P.S sorry i didn't get any more pics but i got to busy

#2 Post by MC » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:42 pm

so where did you finish up eric, not a bad catch for a place you have never fished before

#3 Post by **jack01986** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:05 am

Nice one Eric sounds like a good catch for your first time fishing there.

#4 Post by **eric** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:24 am

MC wrote:so where did you finish up eric, not a bad catch for a place you have never fished before

i won my zone and think i came first overall but there wasn't a prize for that :shock: :shock:

(f*ck*n spelling)

#5 Post by **SKIP** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:14 pm

Well done to the stella maris sac 3 man team consisting of stewart kealy,gordon darker and ronan doherty who won the event.just thought i'd mention that eric :p :p :p .what was your overall points scored eric :?:

#6 Post by **eric** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:11 pm

SKIP wrote:Well done to the stella maris sac 3 man team consisting of stewart kealy,gordon darker and ronan doherty who won the event.just thought i'd mention that eric :p :p :p .what was your overall points scored eric :?:

i did mention them in the comps and clubs section, and yes well done to them again, me and gordan(pegged next to me) had our own little battle going on, i pipped him to the the post on my last two casts, lucky old me :twisted: very nice guy though. i finished up with 305pts

#7 Post by **JOHN1** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:30 pm

well done eric .

nice report.

I'm a bit surprised you never fished here before :wink:
being a member of bray outcasts.

they used to fish there when they started up.

first overall and NO PRIZE :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

#8 Post by **eric** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:24 pm

JOHN1 wrote:well done eric .

nice report.

I'm a bit surprised you never fished here before :wink:
being a member of bray outcasts.

they used to fish there when they started up.

first overall and NO PRIZE :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

the outcast have gone down the boat angling direction more so than the shore

#9 Post by **boycie89** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:59 pm

in other words they are a load of S**T !!!!!! :roll: :roll:

#10 Post by **SKIP** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:46 am

in fairness boycie they have good anglers they just werent good enough on the day :lol:

#11 Post by **eric** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:47 am

SKIP wrote:in fairness boycie they have good anglers they just werent good enough on the day :lol:

we had a zone win and a zone second, our third angler made a mistake signing his card, so we only finished up with two anglers

#12 Post by **SKIP** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:30 pm

excuses excuses excuses eric by the way heard stewart kealy scored zone win with 316 points just to let you know :P

#13 Post by **eric** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:22 pm

SKIP wrote:excuses excuses excuses eric by the way heard stewart kealy scored zone win with 316 points just to let you know :P

well done to him then, i stand corrected, however i know who has the trophy and il be damned if i tell you :wink: :twisted: :twisted: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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