yougal area 4/5 jan
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taz
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yougal area 4/5 jan
People me and ter
time 10pm to 7pm
locations , whiting bay, ferrypoint, yougal dock, yougal beach , the castle, the bridge , calista bay hiecky head
bait peeler crab, razor ,mack, white bait ,mussel
rigs everything
result whiting coalie pollock cod and i lost all my rigs
with the fishing being kinda brutal up here ,ter decided to take a spin to waterford /cork. got to dugarvin bfore 10 picked up bait in rod and reels (really sound of him to open up for us ). got a couple of spots off Gary and went to whiting bay first , full of weed strong south west blowing into our face waited 2is hours then headed to ferry point alot of weed here too but feck it we were going fishing regardless i had a pin straight away ter had a cod a hour later then he had a coalie fished here till 520am then drove into yougal and found a dock with evidence of fishing (loads of gut ,bait bags , chip bags and a tail and guts of a cod ) tried it here for 3 hours couple of bites but no hook up at this stage we were well and truely wrecked so we park in tesco and had a kip till 10 am and then ter tried yougal beach i tried getting some more kip but no joy and both parts.
Ter got to chatting to a local he told us to try the castle so we did no luck there on our way home we seen a bloke fishing from the bridge so we stopped and had a chat with him while we were talking he landed a cod so we legged it back to the ven got our gear and off we cast i caught 1 cod and that was it headed back to ferry point where a german fella told us to try calista so we headed to calista bay only to dicover it is right beside whiting bay and full of weed as well . ...bugger it . in a last ditch effort to catch some cod we headed to helvic head and fished the pier for a fair while caught only coalies but plenty of them they kept taken all bait at about 7 we decided to call it a night and start on the 5 hour drive home
time 10pm to 7pm
locations , whiting bay, ferrypoint, yougal dock, yougal beach , the castle, the bridge , calista bay hiecky head
bait peeler crab, razor ,mack, white bait ,mussel
rigs everything
result whiting coalie pollock cod and i lost all my rigs
with the fishing being kinda brutal up here ,ter decided to take a spin to waterford /cork. got to dugarvin bfore 10 picked up bait in rod and reels (really sound of him to open up for us ). got a couple of spots off Gary and went to whiting bay first , full of weed strong south west blowing into our face waited 2is hours then headed to ferry point alot of weed here too but feck it we were going fishing regardless i had a pin straight away ter had a cod a hour later then he had a coalie fished here till 520am then drove into yougal and found a dock with evidence of fishing (loads of gut ,bait bags , chip bags and a tail and guts of a cod ) tried it here for 3 hours couple of bites but no hook up at this stage we were well and truely wrecked so we park in tesco and had a kip till 10 am and then ter tried yougal beach i tried getting some more kip but no joy and both parts.
Ter got to chatting to a local he told us to try the castle so we did no luck there on our way home we seen a bloke fishing from the bridge so we stopped and had a chat with him while we were talking he landed a cod so we legged it back to the ven got our gear and off we cast i caught 1 cod and that was it headed back to ferry point where a german fella told us to try calista so we headed to calista bay only to dicover it is right beside whiting bay and full of weed as well . ...bugger it . in a last ditch effort to catch some cod we headed to helvic head and fished the pier for a fair while caught only coalies but plenty of them they kept taken all bait at about 7 we decided to call it a night and start on the 5 hour drive home
life tastes better through a pineapple
speices 2011 whiting ,flounder, cod , coalie,,shore rockling , LsD,pollock,mack ,dab turbot sea trout ,bull huss ,3 rockling , wrasse
egg and my face were in alignment
speices 2011 whiting ,flounder, cod , coalie,,shore rockling , LsD,pollock,mack ,dab turbot sea trout ,bull huss ,3 rockling , wrasse
egg and my face were in alignment
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seanie35
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Re: yougal area 4/5 jan
ye sure covered alot of ground and got some fish to boot, i was in that "rods and reels" tackle shop in dungarvan yesterday hes (gary is it) got some good stuff in it had to drag myself out before a lure frenzy started 
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Re: yougal area 4/5 jan
well done on the persistence. ye must have been dizzy from moving between marks. fair dues on the effort. was in ferrypoint last evening myself for 3 houre to full tide. froze to death and only i coalie between two of us. i lost a major fish alright.
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Re: yougal area 4/5 jan
fair play to yiz lads for the effort, sometimes it can be tough going alright. Those marks can produce bigtime but sometimes as you know it can swing the other way too. Its a pain when the weed is about too. I dont know about you but its still a mystery to me when and why it gets weedy sometimes and is clear at other times. Might post it up as a question on this forum. Anyway best of luck next time.
Species 2012:
Cod, Whiting, flounder, coalfish, bass, pollack, sea trout, poor cod, pouting, dogfish, sea scorpion, 3 bearded rockling, blonde ray, painted ray, turbot.
Cod, Whiting, flounder, coalfish, bass, pollack, sea trout, poor cod, pouting, dogfish, sea scorpion, 3 bearded rockling, blonde ray, painted ray, turbot.
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XmartyX
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Re: yougal area 4/5 jan
Hard luck lads. I fished the pier and the slob bank in Youghal over Christmas with just a few Coalies to show for it. A couple of days later I read a report that some fine cod were landed! At least you didn't blank 
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taz
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Re: yougal area 4/5 jan
gary is sound i called him before i left to see if i could buy bait over the phone and get him to leave it in a pub for us but he said he would open up the shop when we got down , spent a fair few quid nice fella told us about a couple of spots as wellseanie35 wrote:ye sure covered alot of ground and got some fish to boot, i was in that "rods and reels" tackle shop in dungarvan yesterday hes (gary is it) got some good stuff in it had to drag myself out before a lure frenzy started
life tastes better through a pineapple
speices 2011 whiting ,flounder, cod , coalie,,shore rockling , LsD,pollock,mack ,dab turbot sea trout ,bull huss ,3 rockling , wrasse
egg and my face were in alignment
speices 2011 whiting ,flounder, cod , coalie,,shore rockling , LsD,pollock,mack ,dab turbot sea trout ,bull huss ,3 rockling , wrasse
egg and my face were in alignment
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taz
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Re: yougal area 4/5 jan
cheers lads it was a bit mental moving about but we decided to try as many spots when we were down there . just recovering now i think next time we will do more planning so we can catch some decent fish
life tastes better through a pineapple
speices 2011 whiting ,flounder, cod , coalie,,shore rockling , LsD,pollock,mack ,dab turbot sea trout ,bull huss ,3 rockling , wrasse
egg and my face were in alignment
speices 2011 whiting ,flounder, cod , coalie,,shore rockling , LsD,pollock,mack ,dab turbot sea trout ,bull huss ,3 rockling , wrasse
egg and my face were in alignment
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donal domeney
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Re: yougal area 4/5 jan
Specimen Fish 2024: Shore Rockling (3) 36cm, 34cm, 31cm; Thick Lipped Mullet (2) 58cm, 57cm; Smooth Hound (1) 109cm; Sting Ray (1)125cm; Ballan Wrasse (1) 48cm ; Corkwing Wrasse (1) 24.8cm. Golden Grey Mullet (2) 43cm, 1.8lb; 40.6cm, 1.55lb;
Total species boat/shore: 45
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Specimen Fish 2025: To date: 6.
Flounder 46cm; Spurdog 120cm; Stingray 91cm; Smooth Hound 114cm; 103.5cm; 104cm
Total species boat/shore: 45
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Specimen Fish 2025: To date: 6.
Flounder 46cm; Spurdog 120cm; Stingray 91cm; Smooth Hound 114cm; 103.5cm; 104cm
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taz
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Re: yougal area 4/5 jan
he hedonal domeney wrote:Did you take the wrong turn a Limerick:
http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/bull ... =1&t=32186
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we changed our mind when we seen all the cod that were caught .
life tastes better through a pineapple
speices 2011 whiting ,flounder, cod , coalie,,shore rockling , LsD,pollock,mack ,dab turbot sea trout ,bull huss ,3 rockling , wrasse
egg and my face were in alignment
speices 2011 whiting ,flounder, cod , coalie,,shore rockling , LsD,pollock,mack ,dab turbot sea trout ,bull huss ,3 rockling , wrasse
egg and my face were in alignment
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Al and Jordan
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Re: yougal area 4/5 jan
unlucky lads. you really deserved better results with the time and travelling you put into your trip
just a pity the conditions and fish were against you this time. but sure, there's always next time

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taz
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Re: yougal area 4/5 jan
ya hopefully we will have it better next time but still great to go on a mad one next time we get a pint in as wellAl and Jordan wrote:unlucky lads. you really deserved better results with the time and travelling you put into your tripjust a pity the conditions and fish were against you this time. but sure, there's always next time
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life tastes better through a pineapple
speices 2011 whiting ,flounder, cod , coalie,,shore rockling , LsD,pollock,mack ,dab turbot sea trout ,bull huss ,3 rockling , wrasse
egg and my face were in alignment
speices 2011 whiting ,flounder, cod , coalie,,shore rockling , LsD,pollock,mack ,dab turbot sea trout ,bull huss ,3 rockling , wrasse
egg and my face were in alignment
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Re: yougal area 4/5 jan
soldiers
keep it up lads you'll get them 
Give a man a fire he will be warm for a night,
Set him on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
Species from the shore 2011:21
Species from the shore 2012:34,
Species from the shore 2013:40
Species from the shore 2014:36
Species from the shore 2015:35
Species from the shore 2016:30
: whiting,pouting,dab,shore rockling,5xb beard rockling,flounder,dogfish,grunt,white sea bream,banded sea bream,black damselfish,blue damselfish, ornate wrasse,lizard fish,sea trout,red gurnard,bass,tornback ray smoothhound,Corkwing wrasse,poor cod,ballon wrasse,cod,pollock,conger,spotted ray,bullhuss,mackerel ,tub gurnard,place,lesser weever,
Wish list: ray
Set him on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
Species from the shore 2011:21
Species from the shore 2012:34,
Species from the shore 2013:40
Species from the shore 2014:36
Species from the shore 2015:35
Species from the shore 2016:30
: whiting,pouting,dab,shore rockling,5xb beard rockling,flounder,dogfish,grunt,white sea bream,banded sea bream,black damselfish,blue damselfish, ornate wrasse,lizard fish,sea trout,red gurnard,bass,tornback ray smoothhound,Corkwing wrasse,poor cod,ballon wrasse,cod,pollock,conger,spotted ray,bullhuss,mackerel ,tub gurnard,place,lesser weever,
Wish list: ray