Orlock, Co Down. 27th June 2010

[nobuzz]

People: Just me (Daniel stayed in bed!)

Duration: 9:00 - 12:00

Tide: High

Weather: Bright & breezy

Bait: Spinners, rag & mackeral

Rigs: 2 hook flapper & pulley

Results: 2 Ballan Wrasse, 1 corkwing wrasse, 1 pollack, 1 rockling




Report: Daniel decided to stay in bed! SO I headed to Orlock myself having heard of a few wrasse & Red Cod being caught.

I started off fishing close in with rag on one rod and tried spinning for mackerel with the other. After about 5 minutes I had a cracking bite on the close in rod but it didn't stick! After that nothing for ages.

I switched to a pullet rig & a mackerel fillet at distance and still kept the other rod close in.

The close in rod started getting bites and soon I had a wee Corkwing. 2 minutes later I had a rockling then 2 ballan & a pollack all within half an hour!

One of the ballan & the pollack were slightly over the 1lb mark.

Just before I packed up I had a bite on the other rod (mack on a pulley) that nearly pulled the rod into the water. When I reeled in the bait was barely touched.

There were 4-5 other guys fishing, I don't think any of them got anything though I think they were all after mackerel.

One good thing about not getting too many bites is that I've still got plenty of rag left for tomorrow.

[rab01]

That place just hasn't picked up at all this year. Well done on not blanking mate.

[Al and Jordan]

great way to spend a few hours alan, and at least you beat the blank

[scottarm]

think i was fishing beside you, didn't catch a thing I had planned to try SWFF for pollock but the wind was just too strong and the macks wern't playing ball

as the wind just got worse I ended up fishing a lake near by and ended up with a few rainbow trout

[nobuzz]

Scottarm,

Yeah, that was me.

I tried swff Orlock once but didn't feel too confident about it so gave up.

The back of D'dee pier is rumoured to be a good spot for pollack on the fly.

[fagan]

nice fishing lad, looks like you had a great session!!!

john