Ennereilly, 7-January-2009

[uvox]

People: Me, Diego
Duration:7:30 pm -1:00 am approx.
Tide: Turning, falling (http://www.irishtimes.com/weather/tides.html)
Weather: clear skies, cold, flat sea
Bait: lug, mack, squid
Result: whiting, rockling, scorpion fish, other sea creatues

Hit Ennereilly with Diego to use up last of lugworm, etc. We also had mackerel and some squid with us. Ended up with about 30 whiting between us, the biggest was 22 cm, but Diego also hooked a scorpion fish and a rocking. I also managed to haul in a starfish, while Diegeo matched that with a clam.... Started slowly, but as the tide ebbed more it got fairly steady with the whiting coming in two at a time, most on lug, but the rest took the mack.

Temperatures got down to minus 6 C, and the old lugworm (left from the Courtown site meet event) was freezing hard. I kept a few slices of mack in my pocket to thaw out in advance of the next cast. Very bright too, we hardly needed our headlamps.

Not a bad session at all.

[diego]

.... and I managed to "strangle" a whiting with the line it wasn't hooked at all!
Next time I'll not use hooks

Diego

[uvox]

I forgot about that!

Also, the disgorged belly of one of the whiting was a load of shrimp. Seems to be a common dish for whiting along the coast there.

[dfella25]

So Diego are you just lassoing in the fish now? Maybe you should get a cowboy hat

Nice session lads well done on the other sea creatures.

[youngrod]

.... and I managed to "strangle" a whiting with the line it wasn't hooked at all!
Next time I'll not use hooks

Diego

[youngrod]

.... and I managed to "strangle" a whiting with the line it wasn't hooked at all!
Next time I'll not use hooks

Diego

that happened to me with a shore rockling about 3 weeks

[uvox]

Myself and Diego are at the forefront of the Angling New Wave - not only are no hooks needed, but next time we're also gonna see if the whiting will take rasher or sausage too. We need more "progressive" baits...