564 Fish with the Army Lads in Cork

[mickeyfish]

People:Eastern Command SAC, 14 anglers

Duration: Sat 22nd & Sun 23rd May

Tide: High water around Midday

Weather: Costa Del Cork, Scorching

Bait: Rag and Mackerel (frozen)

Rigs: Shamrock Packet Gears, Gilling traces and home-made specials

Results: see report 564 fish and 12 Species

Eastern Command SAC would like to Thank Shamrock Tackle For Sponsoring our event by supplying in Excess of €250 worth of Rigs which were equally spread out amongst the anglers the night previous, Dave in Southside Angling for his great service to our members and his Sponsorship of Vouchers, Dave Tilly for Supplying a Quality Bait for the event which made it a success for us.

It all started with the collection of the bait form Celtic Baits in Ringsend, 14 anglers fishing for 2 days need a lot of bait, so no better man than Brother Tilly, So a few boxes of rag each and the bit of frozen and we were on our way, We were advised to bring some frozen Mackerel with us, as there was no guarantee's of picking them up in Cork, aren't we glad we listened.

We booked our boats through Donie Geary in Cork, we chartered John Boy (Donie Geary) and The Lagosta II(Alan Kennedy)
2 Fantastic Skippers, kept working all day to keep us on fish, marked up the cards and carried out the role of steward on the day and of course had the Kettle constantly going, a real pleasure to fish with.



Report:so on with the report, in total there were 564 fish that went to the measure with a considerable amount that didn't, I have broken it down in to Species and highest amounts,

1. Ling ( 156 )
2. Pollack ( 132 )
3. Pouting ( 88 )
4. Cookoo Wrasse ( 69 )
5. Cod ( 52 )
6. Grey Gurnard ( 38 )
7. Ballan Wrasse ( 14 )
8. Whiting ( 10 )
9. Coalfish ( 2 )
10. Haddock ( 1 )
11. LSD ( 1 )
12 Red Gurnard ( 1 )

As you can see the most prolific species were Ling, Pollack, Pouting and Cookoo's, these were mostly caught with Packet rigs and Gilling, My advice is to have a rig with pink muppets as it stood out to be catching most of the fish.

we set out at 10 O'Clock on both Morning's to start fishing at 11 O'Clock for 2 x 3 hours sessions, unfortunately Mackerel were likes hens teeth, none to be found, over the course of the weekend less than 10 were caught, just as well we brought our frozen bait. Fishing on both days was quite Identical so there was no need to stay up all night tying new rigs (wrassebasher)

we headed out on the the smiths both days and with a neap tide and no real wind other than a gentle breeze the boats were relatively static, this didn't do us any favours, but the fish kept coming at a steady pace, with the best fish going to one of our senior members Christy Johnston at the last minute a nice 91.5cm Ling approx 10lbs beating Gerry Tracey's 90cm Ling.

most of the Lads decided to put their Sponsored rigs to use, with one rig in particular standing out, a Shamrock Sabiki rig with A black, lumi and pink muppet, Oh My God did it fish well, one of the Lads had 8 ling in one 3 hour session on it as well as other species, just by tiping it with a small bit of mackerel.

Thanks too all who supported us and provided their services for a fantastic weekend and we look forward to going down again for 3 days at the end of June

1st Mick Barry ( 400% ) Qualified for Masters 2011
2nd Colm Kelly ( 359%)
3rd Gary Condren ( 333%)

Regards

Mickeyfish

[twinkle]

thats a super days fishing. and on the best 2 days of the year so far. id say u could have done with boots sponsering the factor cream lol. have to try them sabikis next time im out .id say the crack was brilliant and 2 days that wont be forgotten for a long time. well done to all concerned

[saving private brian]

hard to pick out the generals and lieutenants here .well done lads

[mickeyfish]

hard to pick out the generals and lieutenants here .well done lads

Your not far wrong

But we all have to fish as individuals, it was a great weekend of fishing

[Pat]

Well done on the win Mick. I had put up an entry covering the comp on our blog, but now with your info I've updated it....http://corkharbouranglinghub.blogspot.c ... ships.html

[mickeyfish]

Thanks very much Pat, I really enjoy fishing in cork, looking forward to fishing it again for 3 days in june, back down in july and september. I will post up the results of our future events if you want to add them to your blogs

regards

mick

[PaddyB]

Sound like a good couple of days Mickey!

[Pat]

Thanks very much Pat, I really enjoy fishing in cork, looking forward to fishing it again for 3 days in june, back down in july and september. I will post up the results of our future events if you want to add them to your blogs

regards

mick

Yes, we'd be delighted with that.

[mickeyfish]

I will make sure to get plenty of Snaps for you

mick

[mickeyfish]

hey pat i posted a report of our recent event in cork

see the link

http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/bull ... =5&t=28956

regards

mick

[Pat]

Gee, I don't know how I missed that. I'll get a report up tonight. By the looks of it that's the same weekend that I put up about a specimen coalfish http://corkharbouranglinghub.blogspot.c ... lfish.html

[Pat]

Report now up .... http://www.corkharbouranglinghub.blogspot.com

[mickeyfish]

Happy days looks good, going to cork in the morning fishing for 2 days with EFSA ireland will hope to get some snaps and post a report on it so watch out

regards

mick Barry

[Pat]

Hi Mick,

I'm at work at the moment but have been talking to a few lads at the bar who are going out in the morning. They've promised me pics....make sure I get them .

Tight lines,

Pat