ECR (Hardcore Division) Passage Meet

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#1 Post by **dfella25** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:50 am

People: Gordyh, Canning and myself.

Duration:1pm until 6pm

Tide:Mostly the drop HT 2:20pm

Weather:Bit of a blow SSW and rain for an hour or so.

Bait:Lug, crab and Gordy's secret stash.

Rigs:Pully's and clipped down.

Results:Codling to about 5lb and Dab's to 2 lb.

Report: With the forecast fowl and confusion if it was on or off three Northsiders saddled up and headed south. The trip down to Waterford was great on the new road and we were there in just over two hours. We checked out a couple of marks first looking for best cover from the wind. All were fine but when we got to Passage the beach was sheltered great and there was no wind at all. A quick ring around and we discovered we were the only ones to have travelled. So we agreed a pool of a fiver for biggest fish and set about getting the rods out.

Straight off the fishing was great with a codling a cast to everyone. Bren soon landed a sweet fat codling about 3lb's which put him in front. We continued on getting fish with bites as soon as the bait hit the water. The problem was trying to get the baits in without the smaller fish getting hooked so quick. Size 4/0's were easily taken by fish about 20cm's. It wasn't long before Bren caught another decent fish just over the 5lb mark, and then followed by the fattest Dab we had ever seen. It was just over 40cm's and was a beaut.

Gordy and myself were playing catch up now and were getting a few nice fat fish when the fishing began to die off. It went very quiet for the last couple of hours so we decided to pack up. We paid Bren his deserved winnings and headed for SuperMacs.

Only took one pic of Bren's first fish. Nice to be that busy

#2 Post by **dbrock** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:54 am

well done men

#3 Post by **mitch** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:15 am

great result lads and well worth the trip

#4 Post by **markh** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:46 am

well done

Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:48 am

5 Pounder in passage? Fantastic Bren must have been fishing far out was he?

#6 Post by **Kgarr** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:49 am

Fair play lads! Roll on the 5th

#7 Post by **roger de dodger** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:57 am

well done the rough necks

was ragin i had to work sounds like a good time was had by all three of ya and a trip to supermacs to celebrate as the song goes" oh what a perfect day"

#8 Post by **Al and Jordan** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:04 pm

great fishing lads, well worth the drive down

#9 Post by **seanie35** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:13 pm

good fishing lads lucky finding shelter in the gale the 3 sisters estuary must be holding some load of cod

#10 Post by **lampard** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:20 pm

great fishing lads

#11 Post by **wayne riley** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:30 pm

Well done lads, fair play for bravin the conditions.
But super macs wtf.

#12 Post by **Mayorga** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:40 pm

Well done lads good result in those conditions.

Sun Jan 16, 2011 1:01 pm

well done lads.great to see good cod/codling reports on here lately.up to 5lb is brilliant aswell

#14 Post by **alby** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:57 pm

Double hard b@stards!!

Respect lads, I had 8 hours of sand blasting myself!

#15 Post by **dfella25** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 9:00 pm

wayne riley wrote:Well done lads, fair play for bravin the conditions.
But super macs wtf.

Canning's call! But in his defence we all felt full after it. Not like Macky D's.

roger de dodger wrote:well done the rough necks was ragin i had to work sounds like a good time was had by all three of ya and a trip to supermacs to celebrate as the song goes" oh what a perfect day"

You would have loved it Rodger. Gordy kept talking about bass

trout hunter jnr wrote:5 Pounder in passage? Fantastic Bren must have been fishing far out was he?

Hey Michael how's things lad? Yeah Bren can whack him alright. I think he was trying to hit the ferry though

Cheers for the comments lads. As usual we had some banter all the way.There is an awful come down the day after though

Next comp Toberpatrick on Feb 5th. Anyone around the east coast and looking to join a club should check out the East Coast Raiders. I have to say all the lads are bang on and more then helpful. Looking forward to the start of a new year

kstaff · #16 Post by **kstaff** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 4:20 pm

Great fishing men, is that Dab not a record / specimen?

#17 Post by **dfella25** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:29 pm

Don't know about that but it got Jamie Olivered!

#18 Post by **paul skelly** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:06 pm

good stuff lads

great results for a daytime session

and well done on the dab that's a big one

#19 Post by **plumster** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:33 pm

sounds like nice fishing conor, have you no pics of the 3lb and 5lb codling though

#20 Post by **leec** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:20 pm

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