Duration:8 pm - 4am
Tide:up & over high water
Weather:lovely calm evening
Bait:crab, lug & rag
Rigs:pulley pennels
Results:smooties, codling, tope, dogs
Report:Went to a beach where we heard there was hounds caught during the week. We weren't disappointed! On arrival we could see another angler returning a 5lb smoothie so confidence was high.
1st Cast Fintan had a gentle bite followed by a steaming run which produced the first smoothie of the night @ 5lb 9oz. I was next in on the action with a slackliner and another fish around the same size.
There was certainly a pack moving through as straight away both myself & Fintan fine runs and we both landed fish in the 5lb region at exactly the same time. Fishing died off then from about 11pm for 4 hours!! We had the occasional dog & codling during this time but no hounds so the packs had moved off somewhere else.
About 2:30 we were beginning to pack up, and we all decided to have one last cast, I was tidying away one rod when I heard the line screming on my other reel, looked around to see my good rod, just about to leave the tripoed & go water skiing so grabbed and struck followed by a brilliant scrap with the best firsh of the night @ 6lb 11
Next cast I'd a run straight away, which funnily enough was the best fishter of all, I was shouting to the lads that this was my specimen, he tore line off the reel several times during the fight & stayed deep all the way in, amazingly it was only 5lb 10, but a right little scrapper. P Diddy got a run straight away and landed a fish in the 5lb class, but didn't pose for a photo because his other rod was singing, (he should have, it was only an energetic dog).
I think I'd another hound after that, but then got a bit frustrated as having 4 casts in a row had me buried by fish in a snag that seemed to appear on the ebb tide.
Great nights shore sport & hope to get out to enjoy it again soon!
(Post Script: Just sent a txt to Gordie to see how he got on last night - "8 glasses of full bodied red wine, biggest half a pint"
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sounds like a good nights fishing, well done lads, sitting here in the middle of the country with serious withdrawal symptoms myself 
and fair play to Fintan too
is that not meant to be boats 