West Cork Beach, 19/03/2010

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West Cork Beach, 19/03/2010

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People: me, petekd, thighlines

Duration: 8.30 - 11.00

Tide: HW 7.15ish

Weather: breezy and rainy (brought the beach buddy!)

Bait: slightly lacking for me and Pete, but was some razor, clams, mack and rag

Rigs: usual

Results: Me - coalie and a schoolie bass, Pete - 3 5b rockling, Shane - :oops:




Report: Circumstances dictated we'd be heading out on a miserable night, but we went anyway. On the way realised I'd left all my bait at home, so Pete generously split with me meaning we had 2 razor, 1 mackerel and 2 clams each :lol:
Shane was slightly more organised baitwise and had some big rag which also generously shared.
Fishing was slow, coalie came first, followed by a couple of rockling for Pete. Shane headed off about 10 minutes before I was into my next fish. Saw the rod give one knock, left it for a couple of minutes, but no further movement. Reeled it in to find a small bass attached.
Pete finished off with another rockling.
Bait wise, I used one razor (which caught both fish) and was on my rod the whole evening, 2 rag and a couple of bits of mack :lol: . Pete something similar, but had fish on all bait types. He inherited the rag from Shane, so actually left the beach with more bait than he started and we'd had five fish - not bad considering what we'd started with.... 8)
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Re: West Cork Beach, 19/03/2010

#2 Post by red »

at least your still managing to find the Bass down there Lee, i've been down plenty in the last month. had one small schoolie for my troubles and more rockling than i care to remember :oops: . surprised to see ye only got the one.
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Re: West Cork Beach, 19/03/2010

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red wrote:at least your still managing to find the Bass down there Lee, i've been down plenty in the last month. had one small schoolie for my troubles and more rockling than i care to remember :oops: . surprised to see ye only got the one.
I don't know what you're doing wrong? I've been down there 3 times this year and had 3 bass :lol:. In fairness, didn't get any last time I was there, but there was more variety (and lots of rockling).

My advice is only take one razor and bind it on tight!
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Re: West Cork Beach, 19/03/2010

#4 Post by petekd »

Said like a true Scotsman..... :D Nice to be back on the beach, wind blowing off the land killed the sea which was a shame.
Fluff chucking is the new black..... Rampant Wreckfish is a fly angler in denial :D
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Re: West Cork Beach, 19/03/2010

#5 Post by RockHunter »

Well done on the bass, I have yet to get my first this year - had a couple of bass sessions last week but all I caught were a bunch of nappies :roll: :roll: The first few were fairly shreaded up and I didn't realize what they were until I got a more intact one :shock: :shock:
Cod season Winter 2013/14: 117 cod (best fish: 6.5 lbs)
Cod season Winter 2014/15: 193 cod (best fish: 4.25 lbs)

Bass Totals:
2007: 1
2008: 37
2009: 120
2010: 44
2011: 151
2012: 79
2013: 20
2014: 19
2015: 11
2016: 3

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