waterford 6-7th dec 2008

[stevecrow74]

People:myself and MC

Duration:24 hours (with sleep and food breaks)

Tide:all over the place

Weather:clear and very cold

Bait:lug (frozen and fresh that ended up frozen), crab, razor..

Rigs:various

Results: coalie flounder and whiting


Report: went for a spin down south as MC had a couple of days off work and wanted to beat me after last years session with forfeit of buying me pizza and pints ..
headed down with the intention of buying a few fresh lug. but alas all sold out so off to a mark i know for a quick dig.. ended up with a handful of lug.. enough for a session, and just in time as the tide had turned and it was rather dark (very dark)..

with a nice little surf it looked fishy.. a few others were fishin and more arrived down later, so it looked like we could be in for a good one.. a few baits were cast far in hope of a codling.. but coalies seemed to like the baits more

the breeze died down completely and the cold really started to set in as a layer of frost covered cooler bags and backpacks..

fish were slowly coming in but at least we both beat the blank
a couple of nice flounder came in , mine was on razor (greedy bugger)..

MC had a couple of good sized coalie ane i had a decent sized one too, we both missed big bites... looked bassy too.

MC had 9 fish and i had 7

back into the city for a chinese then drove out for a quiet sleep

woke up in the mornin and headed for coffee before heading to a mark to attempt to catch cod..
a few others were fishin but no fish fished for a few hours and talked to a couple of locals that said the area had been rather quiet lately

no target species caught (bass, cod) so the forfeit has increased to pizza and more pints

[fishinmidget]

at least you didn't blank

[saltydog]

Hard luck lads not connecting with your target species but still nice to fish somewhere a different and as Alex said at least ye didn't blank

[Al and Jordan]

unlucky with the cod steve you certinly put in the effort, just a shame you were'nt rewarded. we aint got a cod in ages ourselves. i can't figure it out whats going on with em. the west coast of england and scotland seems to be paved with 5lb ers. can't figure out why they don't head our way

[theshoreking]

Unlucky not to pick up a bass there. The cod are hard to come by The fishin should be much better this weekend with the predicted sth westerlies and westerlies, rise in temperature, and better tides.

[MC]

enjoyed the wee trip down as steve said the cod/bass where not there, we even went to a serect cod mark that was that serect someone forgot to tell the cod, the whiting where there but 3/0 hooks stopped them. Went home happy knowing that i outfished steve and that my fish where bigger than his missed a few bites due to being on the phone to the wife that where either big coalies or shoolies, have to go back someday, besides a pizza and 2 beers is the prize next time.

[nige]

Went home happy knowing that i outfished steve and that my fish where bigger than his

well done on beating steve

[Bradan]

Am I to understand that you actually bought someone a pint Steve?

[stevecrow74]

Am I to understand that you actually bought someone a pint Steve?

i often do.. i just dont do rounds with people who walk off when its there turn to buy drinks.. (and i'm not talking about you)

[MC]

Am I to understand that you actually bought someone a pint Steve?

he did and it was "probably" the best pint i have had in a while