People: me, jordan and dawsey
Duration: 5pm - 10pm
Tide: low to high
Weather: calm, mild and dry until 10pm when the wind picked up
Bait: rag, lug, mack and prawn
Rigs: flappers
Results: ME: 13 flounder, 8 coalies, 1 codling and 1, 5 bearded rockling. JORDAN: 10 flounder and 4 whiting. DAWSEY: 11 flounder, 3 coalies, 1 codling, 1 whiting and 1 sea trout.
Report: after weeks and weeks of persuasion dawsey finally got a run up the antrim coast with us to our beach that never fails to suprise

. we got there a bit later than expected after 3 return trips to home. we were just leaving belfast when i noticed the oil light come on in the car as i forgot to top up the oil

so it was back to the house for a splash and dash and back on the road again. we were half way out of belfast (again) and it dawned on me that the bait was still in the fridge at home, so back to the house again

finally we got to the mark and set up as the tide was flooding back in. jordan was 20 yards to my right and dawsey 20 yards to my left. as it was dawseys first time here i put him in the hot spot, fishing a wee lagoon that never fails as the tide floods

odd thing was, i was pulling in fish after fish with jordan and dawsey only getting the occasional knock for the first hour

i got my first doubles of flounder and coalies before they landed a fish

but by 6.30pm all the rods were bouncing away

jordan and dawsey both opted to put bells on their rods, and at one stage it sounded like the ghost of christmas past was breakdancing on both sides of me( chains and all)

bites and fish were coming fast and furious for us all, with us all getting flounder and coalies. me and dawsey even managed a wee codling each and jordan and dawsey got into the whiting. i knew from the weather reports it was going to be calm, so for added sport i advised dawsey to leave the bach rods at home and only bring light spinning gear with 40gram cast weight max to get the maximum sport from the session

the doubles we were all getting into put a brave bend in the rods and was great sport. we were on our own until a bunch of drinkers set up camp behind us and started partying and lighting fires. there was no harm in them, but they were a bit annoying breaking out into song every now and again. but trust me,........ i think it's safe to say westlife can sleep easy in their beds tonight as these guys did'nt have the X-FACTOR. more like the becks factor

by now it was nearly 10pm and the tide was on the way back out and it was last cast saloon. dawsey reeled in what i thought from a distance was a joey mackerel

but was even more suprised to hear him yelp with joy that it was a sea trout

. he had taken a strip of mack and was perfectly lip hooked. dawsey was made up as he had always wanted to get one, but thought he would have to wait until spring to even have a sniff at one. RESULT!!!

. i was made up as well as my last fish was a 5 bearded rockling. only my 3rd of the year, but 2 more than i had in 2008 already

. jordan did'nt fair so well, only getting into flounder and whiting all night. but he reckons he's saving himself for greystones next week

another super session that was fairly short by our usual standards, but this wee beach never fails

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