Duration:18:30-midnight
Tide:Rising to full
Weather: Mild, North Westerly, Dry
Bait: Rag, Mack, Squid, and Sandeel
Rigs: Pulley and Flapper
Results: 8 Dogs, 12 Coalies, 4 Pollack, 3 whiting, 1 Dab, 1 sea Scorpion, 1 Large Lobster
Report:
Well we hit this mark with a bit of trepidation as it was a first for us, and we needed to mull it over a fish supper in Cushendall, before we made the decision. We were a bit stuck for choice, but basically it came down to a new rock mark, the pier or the beach
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We opted for the deep water rock mark, in the hope we might pick of a few ray that still remained. That wasn't to be sadly, but we were getting hits right from the first baits hit the water. It wasn't long before the first reasonable sized dog came to the pulley rig, after downsizing the bait a bit, having had several good knocks previously, and a lot of obvious bite marks on the bait. I decided to leave it sitting, and as expected it eventually hooked itself. From then on we were into a steady flow of reasonable Coalies, around the 1lb and a 1/2 mark, and a few good Pollack. Casting out once more, I totally messed up my cast, getting a slight overrun on the multi, but saving it, just to see my flapper rig, disappear into the kelp. Avoiding losing the rig, my embarrasment was further covered up, by having my bait attacked, by what I think is a Sea Scorpion, and a reasonable one at that, you can judge for yourselves, as it's a new species for me. Having returned the Sea Scorpion safely I then got what could only be described as the best bite of the night. The Penn Powerstix, with the Pulley bowed over, and then sprung back in the traditional Pulley manor. I thought Oi Oi! I'm into a good one here. I lifted the rod, and struck to lift it off the bottom. Winding in I suddenly got very disappointed. I couldn't feel a thing, nothing zilch, nadda. I got the shock leader up and over the kelp, and there on the end of my large squid and sandeel bait, was a saucer sized Dab stuck on a 4/0 hook. Unbelievable!!!. Anyway it carried on for a few hours well into high tide like that, fish coming regularly to our baits. We had just decided to start packing when Kev's new Grays bass rod started to dip. Deciding to let the bite develop, we watched for a while, and eventually Kev lifted into a fish of considerable weight. Unbeknown to us at the time, a good Coalie had taken the top flapper, which when he got it to shore, it was totally ignored, because of the 2lb lobster hooked on the bottom flapper.
A good night for a first time mark, finished off with a couple of small dogs. The marks around this bay seem to be fishing pretty well at the moment, and we still have another couple to try out for the first time, so we hopefully will be back shortly!!!
the lobster was a welcome bonus 
