Ballinwilling, Cork, 1-11-08 B.A.S.S. comp

[Tom Maher]

People:24

Duration:4pm - 8pm

Tide:3.8m

Weather:Clear, with slight n/e winds

Bait:various
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Rigs:various

Results:34 fish (flats, coalies, 1 bass, 1 dog, 1 huss and 1 pollock) 18 out of 24 had fish




Report:Walking down the beach as i was putting out the pegs i noticed a distinct lack of lugworm casts, so i thought crab might be good for the first hour and a half, while it was still light, unfortunately i got a peg in the hungry acre and it lived up to its name on this particular session. As we were fishing past high tide no one as near the rocks in front of the car park, and we started from the bottom of the slip. The water was fairly flat and weed free so at the start it looked like it was going to fish well.
Predictably for the first hour or so it was patchy enough with a handful of flounder caught throughout the beach. As it started to get dark the guys pegged from the stream up started to catch fish - mainly a mix of flounder and coalies, with a bass of 51cm caught by mossey griffin.
As it got totally dark from around 6pm onwards the fishing picked up, mainly due to the fact that the coalies started to show up and most of the scorecards returned afterward had coalies on them. There were no cod caught - not a good sign, and more surprising there was only 1 dogfish ( not including the huss ) and no ray or eels. The coalies were averaging 36-37cm and there were 19 caught.
The top 5 were as follows:
1st Mossey Griffin ( Cloyne ) 4 fish 178pts, 2nd James Kiniry ( B.A.S.S. ) 4 fish 163pts, 3rd Paul Coady ( Cloyne ) 109 pts, 4th Ken Hogan ( B.A.S.S. ) 100 pts, 5th J.P Molloy ( S.A.I. ) 94pts.
Dr. Seafish has some pics which he will put up later.

[RockHunter]

and more surprising there was only 1 dogfish

Thats surprising alright - I havn't fished that beach much but any time I did I was plagued with dogfish.
Cod seem to be very scarce all around - maybe the stormy weather forcast for the weekend will bring them in?

[Tom Maher]

I'm just hoping that the wind stops being easterly for a week or so - that may help!

[gunnerska]

i was one of the lads who got the hungry acre !!!!!
only my second comp.
tryed all the bits on three hook flapper but too no avail.
any day out with a rod is a good day!!!

[shamoo0804]

Mmmmm

I'm just hoping that the wind stops being easterly for a week or so - that may help!

From what I've seen of the weather reports in the Dublin/Wicklow region its gonna be easterlies from thurs onwards...atleast for a couple of days

[donal domeney]

i was one of the lads who got the hungry acre !!!!!
only my second comp.
tryed all the bits on three hook flapper but too no avail.
any day out with a rod is a good day!!!

Know the feeling, I also blanked there in that comp, but I've won competitions on the hungrey acre before so in general it would not have stressed me.

I fished the end of the slip the night before, not checking about the B.A.S.S. comp, and had only 1 coalie and a 6lb painted ray in 3 hours fishing.

Garryvoe needs a good onshore blow to get the fish closer in.

[petekd]

Pegged beside you gunnerska, hungry acre all the way for me too I'm afraid, the best of bait coming back perfect every time. Wasn't one bit stressed about it, every time I get put there I blank..... Meant there was a load of bait left over for the following day thought, every cloud....

[Tom Maher]

Winds are supposed to come from west-north west for the next few days, might improve the beaches around east cork and west waterford.

[gunnerska]

Pegged beside you gunnerska, hungry acre all the way for me too I'm afraid, the best of bait coming back perfect every time. Wasn't one bit stressed about it, every time I get put there I blank..... Meant there was a load of bait left over for the following day thought, every cloud....

would have loved to have got out the next day fishing but was sick from the demon drink!!!!!

[drseafish]

Just attached somel pic of the start of the comp, as was also another of the blankers...
I don't have the excuse of the hungry acre as both guys either side of me had a couple of coalies just before high tide.

Till the next time.