wickla ,caught on the 4 of july

[roger de dodger]

People:two ould lads

Duration:10.30 pm till 4 am

Tide:full at 3.30

Weather:warm and breezey, south westerly

Bait:rag lug and crab

Rigs:flapps and pullys

Results:15 dogs two flounder and 2 smoothies




Report:even though i had no bait exept a few frozen crab that had passed away prior to freezing gordy promised to pick up some fresh rag and lug and do driving duties on a late session ,we arived and set up and had fish every second cast (dogs dogs dogs!)at about 2am the bites doggies bogged off and for 45 minutes not a bite besides one 25 cm flounder words were had and 3 am was the deadline as eyes where getting gritty(yaaaawn)was nodding off when a cry came from the dark YES .gordy,s new pb smoothy was landed change of rig and a fresh (not too gank) crab flew out on my distance rod,15 minutes later and a good scrap and out of the deep came my best smoothy so far this year 8)penn slammer well tested we hung on for another hour and packed up just as day was breaking,boy did i sleep well only up now (11.30)

[ShaneH]

yous are getting to old to be out that late

[Nite Owl]

Well done to the ould fellas. They say that the older you get the less sleep you need. Did you put the hounds on the scales?

[mitch]

nice going rodger those couple of smoothies were well worth
the lost sleep

[willie bendit]

Nice hound there,Rodger,great pics.as usual.

[Mayorga]

well done lads nice fish

[masterkeane]

well done men .... ye's wud have been better off campin at that stage ye's mad feckers

[eyesreilly]

Well done (ould)men ,,,,,,,,,,you certainly put it up to all those young whippersnappers out there Cracking hounds

[roger de dodger]

Well done to the ould fellas. They say that the older you get the less sleep you need. Did you put the hounds on the scales?

yes 2.5lb for gordy and no for mine i,d day about 5 lb smoothies are very light for their size and length but they make up for it in the fight gordy thought he had a 6 lb bass on
his one took rag

[cw1]

Well done lads, nice fish! I packed it in about 1 am after a couple of flounder + dogs, oh and a hermit crab.

[dfella25]

yous are getting to old to be out that late

No Shane at there age they can't sleep and go for a jimmy every five minutes!

[gerryl]

great pic's and good fishin...best left to them that knows...

[plumster]

well that did'nt take you long rodge,lovely fish and podges is'nt bad either .

[rustyhookthomas]

nice going lads, who needs sleep with fishing like that
this weekends tides are a bit nicer for us oul fellas can't wait.

[Dawsey]

Congrats Roger, thanks for all the info supplied to get us into a few fish on our recent visit down with dave and neil and the crew. Top bloke!