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#1 Post by donal domeney »

Date: 05.04.2009

People: J. Warner and I

Duration: 15.00 – 18.00

Tide: H.W. 15.04

Weather: F3/4 south westerly

Bait: Crab, razor and rag

Rigs: Me, 3 hook flowing rigs

Results: John 6 flounder myself 10 flounder

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With a shore comp coming up soon it was time to get the feet back on terra firma and see could I remember how to set up a tripod.
I had rambled around the day before but found nowhere that got me motivated :? :? so I ended up getting in some casting practice and boy did I need it. :oops: :oops: :oops:
So after a bit of spinning around Sunday morning watching shoals of small mullet :x :x I ended up in the Youghal area where I met up with John.
John had already been fishing a comp in Monatrae where only 3 anglers had 3 single fish. At least that eliminated one venue so we headed to an estuary spot which often produce fish on the dropping tide.
Fishing about a 40 yards apart, the first half hour had no fish showing. John was on the first flounded a nice fish over the 35cm mark :D . Good enough reason for me to make a move. A steady flow of flounder followed with a couple of doublers coming ashore. :D :D :D :D
All the fish were a good size with most of them over the 40cm mark.
Best fish of the session fell to me a nice 46cm flounder that weighed 1.14kg. :D 8) :lol: and just over the specimen weight.

In all not a bad come back that flounder push my specimen species count to 10.
3 from the shore, bass, painted ray and flounder. 7 from the boat, monkfish, pouting, whiting, coalfish, megrim, red gurnard and blonde ray.
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Specimen Fish 2024: Shore Rockling (3) 36cm, 34cm, 31cm; Thick Lipped Mullet (2) 58cm, 57cm; Smooth Hound (1) 109cm; Sting Ray (1)125cm; Ballan Wrasse (1) 48cm ; Corkwing Wrasse (1) 24.8cm. Golden Grey Mullet (2) 43cm, 1.8lb; 40.6cm, 1.55lb;
Total species boat/shore: 45
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Specimen Fish 2025: 7.
Flounder 46cm; Spurdog 120cm; Stingray 91cm; Smooth Hound 114cm; 103.5cm; 104cm: Golden Grey Mullet 1.6lb
Total species boat/shore: 40
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Specimen Fish 2026:
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#2 Post by kenf41 »

thats a fine flounder great fishin
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#3 Post by yappo »

Donal that's one hell of a flounder man well done. :D :D

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#4 Post by keith »

Nice one Donal thats a proper flounder :wink:
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#5 Post by seanie35 »

fine flounder 8) , did ya hear of or see the big trawler operating the slob all week :x
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#6 Post by Al and Jordan »

whooaahhh :shock: :shock: now that's proper flounder fishing. well done lads 8) what size hooks were you using??
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#7 Post by Bass Buster »

well done lads thats a nice session and good to see you gettn back out there
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#8 Post by beachbuddy »

Great fishing Donal,
is it just me or does there seem to be more flounder around at the moment than in previous years not that im complaining,great to see :D
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#9 Post by RockHunter »

Some nice flounder there.
seanie35 wrote:did ya hear of or see the big trawler operating the slob all week :x
Last Sunday week (29th March) I saw a trawler in the inner bay as I was driving along the main Waterford road towards Youghal Bridge, nearly crashed the car as I was trying to see what they were at - I wonder how many bass they "accidentally" caught :twisted:
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2008: 37
2009: 120
2010: 44
2011: 151
2012: 79
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#10 Post by corbyeire »

cracking flounder
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#11 Post by bhoy32 »

great session well done on specimen flounder
seanie35 wrote:did ya hear of or see the big trawler operating the slob all week :x
Last Sunday week (29th March) I saw a trawler in the inner bay as I was driving along the main Waterford road towards Youghal Bridge, nearly crashed the car as I was trying to see what they were at - I wonder how many Bass they "accidentally" caught :twisted:[/quote] doubt that trawler caught any fish as it was a mussel boat :wink:
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bhoy32 wrote:doubt that trawler caught any fish as it was a mussel boat
OK - so that is what they were at - it was dusk when I was driving past so I couldn't see what they were doing.
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Cod season Winter 2014/15: 193 cod (best fish: 4.25 lbs)

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#13 Post by JOHN1 »

great report donal.

well done on the specimen :wink:
and congratulations on getting to the big 10 mark 8)

he sure makes the match measure look small :shock:
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#14 Post by donal domeney »

Been taking a ribbing for a while because I’ve never caught a specimen flounder. :oops: :oops: :x :x Now that I caught one the critics are claiming that it’s not n the old money (3lb.)
For a change I don’t make the rules and “any port in a storm” rules will do fine with me 8) 8) 8)

The amount of good size flounder been caught at the moment is a good omen for things to come. :D :D

Sadly in my reply to “Alandjordan” I was using size 4 hooks :oops: :oops: :oops: but don’t tell anybody.


Worst still as an angler who claims to be a shore angler I now have only 3 specimen fish from the shore and 7 from the boat.

Long live the lucky boat anglers. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: 8)
Specimen Fish 2024: Shore Rockling (3) 36cm, 34cm, 31cm; Thick Lipped Mullet (2) 58cm, 57cm; Smooth Hound (1) 109cm; Sting Ray (1)125cm; Ballan Wrasse (1) 48cm ; Corkwing Wrasse (1) 24.8cm. Golden Grey Mullet (2) 43cm, 1.8lb; 40.6cm, 1.55lb;
Total species boat/shore: 45
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Specimen Fish 2025: 7.
Flounder 46cm; Spurdog 120cm; Stingray 91cm; Smooth Hound 114cm; 103.5cm; 104cm: Golden Grey Mullet 1.6lb
Total species boat/shore: 40
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Specimen Fish 2026:
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#15 Post by Al and Jordan »

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: don't knock the size 4 hooks, we went out to do some flattie bashing using them on 3 hook flappers and landed a half dozen bass in december :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: yet more proof that fish can't read rig making books :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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#16 Post by saltydog »

Well done on the specimen Donal 8)
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#17 Post by Pat »

donal domeney wrote:Worst still as an angler who claims to be a shore angler I now have only 3 specimen fish from the shore and 7 from the boat.
Donal, a specimen from the shore is infinitely more harder to get than a boat specimen....and fewer anglers have them :wink: .
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