Duration: see below
Tide: all states
Weather: wet
Bait: rag, lug, razor and sand eel
Rigs: 3 hook flappers
Results: mackeral, ballan wrasse, corkwing wrasse, pollock, coalfish, grey gurnard, thornback ray, sea scorpion, dab, pouting, poor cod, conger and more doggies than you could shake a stick at
Report:
sorry about the late post lads, but things have been a bit hetic of late and the old luck has been in short supply lately
. now where do i start??. we decided on tuesday the 17th that a last minute trip to kerry was in order as jordan has to start back to school soon so the order of the day was getting some razor, but all my usual suppliers were clean out. so after phoning every tackle shop and fishing buddy in my contact lists i tracked some down in a tackle shop in larne and high tailed it down to get them. i got the last 4 packets in the shop and went spinning for some fresh mack with mark and jordan when disaster struck 
we were standing on some uneven rocks when in the full swing of a back cast i lost my footing and whalloped mark in the back with the lead on the way past 
thankfully somehow none of the hooks got him, but my 3oz lead had left him winded and gasping for breath . it was only after he got his breath back and we had a bit of a chuckle about it that i noticed that the top section of my favourite rod has splintered to bits and was a goner . so if anyone has a spare top section for a shakespear salt beach fixed spool 12ft 4/8oz rod i'd happily buy it off you as this was my favourite every day use rod that doggie had given to me some months back . i phoned round a few places in england including shakespear themselves, but no joy in tracking a top section down . any how back to the fishing. i thought that nothing else could possibly go wrong as we hit the road at 5pm on thursday kerry bound. we arrived on our pre chosen beach just after midnight and got set up to fish through to the morning when we were supposed to head to the camp site to set up for the weekend. 2 rods each for 9 hours fishing in the rain and lightning resulted in 1 single wee tea bag sized flounder for jordan and diddly squat for me and mark 
. but not to be put off we decided that it must have just been a one off bad session for this spot and resigned ourselves to coming back later in the day after we got the tents sorted out at the site and a good sleep was had by all 
. but this notion was put to rest as we drove to the campsite. with all the rain the roads had some standing water and i drove through a small puddle that turned out to be a 10 inch deep pot hole that broke a spring in the front of the motor and pushed the shock up through the strut . the car was wounded in a bad way and i had no option other than to find a garage somewhere and get it sorted. i found the garage and the fella informed me that it would be the middle of next week before he could get the parts and mabey the weekend before he could get it in and sorted . we were only down for the bloody weekend 
. i phoned my insurer who then informed me that my breakdown cover only covered me within the uk and i'd have to get the car back up into the north as far as newry before they could do anything for me . so i called my mechanic back up home and explained the situation to him and he reckoned if if limped her home and got it to lisburn he could get it sorted for me. so after the 7 hour drive down, an all night session with only 40 mins sleep i had to get ready for a possible 11 hour drive back up home to get the motor sorted . needless to say if the guards had of given me a blood test on the journey home it would have came back nescafe 'C' for caffinne positive 
. i must have chugged down a coffee at every service station on the way home 
. the long and short of it was that i got the car back up north and my mate was a trooper as he had the motor sorted within an hour as the parts were all in his garage waiting for us 
.now with the mountain of bait we had, we had to get out somewhere and donegal was decided on. we got to our mark within 2 hours and were fishing a spot we always usually found other anglers at so we were made up to finally get onto the spot
. this was where it all turned round as the rain cleared away and we had a great 20hour session with well over 200 fish between us all. mark got his first ever conger, 4 in fact by the end up to 12lb 4oz 
jordan was hammering the pollock on the float and i even got 2 thornies . it was a great session where we all made up for the disasters of the previous days and we all went home very happy campers indeed. despite now having travelled over 1000 miles in the past 4 days (now all i have to do is track down a replacement rod section or just bite the bullet and get a new rod ).
hard luck with the rod & spring 
.anyway beyond that well done ye 3.great pics and great varietys
