Bray harbour, east pier 26-3-10

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Bray harbour, east pier 26-3-10

#1 Post by Congo »

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Duration: 15:00 - 19:30

Tide:

Weather: Pretty good, nice and warm but turned dodgy towards the end

Bait: Lug and Mackeral

Rigs: 3 hook flapper

Results: 1 Good sized Flounder (i think!!), 6 Pollack, 4 codling, 1 decent sized cod, coalies, and a double sea scorpion!!! and about 15 crabs!!





Report: Well, here goes my 1st ever report!! Hadnt been sea fishing in a few weeks so decided to get out and wet the lines for a few hours. Was a toss up between going to dalkey or going to greystones, couldnt decide so split it down the middle and went to bray!! Had only fished here once before so hadnt a clue what to expect, so picked up some mackeral off boycie and got some lug in Viking. Got there and decided to just use the spinning rod and fish just a few feet out. Payed off straight away with the first fish a pretty good sized Flounder (i think it was a flounder anyway!!) :?: , then the crabs took over and i must have had at least 15 - 16 of the feckers. Moved up onto the top wall then and lobbed the bait a few feet out again, and for the next while was kept pretty busy with the small pollacks and coalies and codlings and 1 pretty decent looking cod. The weather started to turn then so i started to pack up, and when i went to pull the rod in it started to bite a bit. And when i got it in, to my suprise, there was 2 sea scorpions on it :twisted: :twisted: . I have never caught one of these little beauties before so wasnt actually sure what it was to be honest. Rang up the boycie fella and sent him a picture of it, to be told it was 2 sea scorpions. So a first for me and it was a double, so was pretty chuffed with myself on that 1. When i took the hook out of the larger one's mouth (it was 1 large one and a baby one), a small half eaten one was in its mouth. Think i'll just call it a treble!!! :wink:

So all in all, was probably my best days fishing so far, so roll on summer!!!
Species: Codling, pollack, whiting, 3 beard rockling, ballan wrasse, conger, mackeral, lesser spotted dogfish, 5 beard rockling, shore rockling, greater spotted dogfish, long spine sea scorpion, short spine sea scorpion, flounder, tub gurnard, coalie, pouting (17)

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Re: Bray harbour, east pier 26-3-10

#2 Post by lucky »

nice one man... a picture or two would have been good ,, great report.....
SHORE SPECIES 2012... coalie,

boat species09~~~pollack,cod,haddock,whiting,doggies,bullhuss,tope,john dory,thornebsck,blonde,blue shark,spur dog,wrase,gunnard,pouting,

shore species 2010~~~ dab,flounder,thorneback ray,pollack,plaice,coalies,turbot,wrasse,bull huss, lsd...

boat trips 4 result..pouting,, spurdog.pollack,
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#3 Post by Al and Jordan »

great first report man and even better fishing 8) 8) sounds like you were kept well busy. if only all sessions could be like that :P well done man
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#4 Post by Congo »

Cheers guys, im tryin to get the pictures off my phone and onto the comp, cant find the cable for it. Will have some up soon though.
Species: Codling, pollack, whiting, 3 beard rockling, ballan wrasse, conger, mackeral, lesser spotted dogfish, 5 beard rockling, shore rockling, greater spotted dogfish, long spine sea scorpion, short spine sea scorpion, flounder, tub gurnard, coalie, pouting (17)

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#5 Post by nicefish »

That's a nice mix you got there 8)
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#6 Post by eyesreilly »

Well done Congo, decent session there, the scorpion fish are great, the way they grunt at you :lol: :lol: ,,,,,,i've never fished off that side, so i must pay it a visit sometime.Must have been nice on the spinning rod,,,,you did very well during daylight :wink:
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Re: Bray harbour, east pier 26-3-10

#7 Post by Congo »

Cheers guys
I'm just back from there again. Same set-up, but not great results. 2 pollack, and another pesky load of crabs.........and that was that!! Got dark and the fish stopped biting, was wierd! Suppose i deserved it for chancing my arm going there again!!
Species: Codling, pollack, whiting, 3 beard rockling, ballan wrasse, conger, mackeral, lesser spotted dogfish, 5 beard rockling, shore rockling, greater spotted dogfish, long spine sea scorpion, short spine sea scorpion, flounder, tub gurnard, coalie, pouting (17)

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Re: Bray harbour, east pier 26-3-10

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eyesreilly wrote:Well done Congo, decent session there, the scorpion fish are great, the way they grunt at you :lol: :lol: ,,,,,,i've never fished off that side, so i must pay it a visit sometime.Must have been nice on the spinning rod,,,,you did very well during daylight :wink:

Cheers reilly. Yea, they are a great lookin little fish. Was a bit freaked out when i heard the little grunts 1st, didnt know what the hell it was!!
And i always lob the spinning rod out too whenever im on a pier or rock mark, its a bit better craic than a big beachcaster or a boat rod. Tis just handy
Species: Codling, pollack, whiting, 3 beard rockling, ballan wrasse, conger, mackeral, lesser spotted dogfish, 5 beard rockling, shore rockling, greater spotted dogfish, long spine sea scorpion, short spine sea scorpion, flounder, tub gurnard, coalie, pouting (17)

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Finally got the pix sorted!!!
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Species: Codling, pollack, whiting, 3 beard rockling, ballan wrasse, conger, mackeral, lesser spotted dogfish, 5 beard rockling, shore rockling, greater spotted dogfish, long spine sea scorpion, short spine sea scorpion, flounder, tub gurnard, coalie, pouting (17)

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Pic number 2
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Species: Codling, pollack, whiting, 3 beard rockling, ballan wrasse, conger, mackeral, lesser spotted dogfish, 5 beard rockling, shore rockling, greater spotted dogfish, long spine sea scorpion, short spine sea scorpion, flounder, tub gurnard, coalie, pouting (17)

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#11 Post by plumster »

nice job congo ,used to fish that pier myself before i moved to crappytown ,found the bend to be the best spot ,very rough ground but can be very good with surprising rewards. dont suppose you got a pic of the good sized cod . :idea: think i might give it a go tonight if the rain holds off. :idea: anybody looking to move to bettystown living around bray, we could swap houses :!: :mrgreen:
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#12 Post by Determined Dan »

nice fishing and good pics. good to see some one is catching them .
20107xthornback ray. {PB 14.5LB TB RAY} 1xpouting. 1xcodling.11xdogfish. 25xflounder.1xshore rock ling. 177xmac 4xturbot.1 bull huss.1sea trout. 1 MAYO BASS.2011. WHITING X9. COALIE X3. FLOUNDER X7. DOGGIE X8. THORNIEX3. CODLINGX1. SEA SCORPIONX1. 5 BEARDED ROCKLINGX4. SEATROUT X1. TURBOT X1. POLLACK X7. 3 BEARD ROCKLING .2012 SEATROUT X3. TURBOT X5. FLOUNDER X7. 3B,ROCKLINGX1.DOG .
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#13 Post by JOHN1 »

great stuff congo nice first report :wink:
it looks like you might have a long and short spined sea scorpion double, im sure there will be a mini species expert along soon :wink:
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#14 Post by stefwest »

well done nice few fish good session fair play

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