Duration: 7pm - 10pm
Tide: pull
Weather: Heavy showers, hard wind
Bait: Rag and mack
Rigs: loops, 3 hook flappers
Results: flounder and coallie
Report:
After a long day at work and a long drive up we got dinner at my gf's aunties house. We decided the weather wouldnt stay down for long so quickly grabbing and getting onto the beach we set up. First cast went nicely 20-30m with the wind in my face, as I watched the line I noticed not only did it get no hits but the seaweed was so bad it was blowing up to the top eye. Shep cast out and again this was clearly never going to work, so we packed up after 20 mins and a heavy shower later, got into the car and headed to the harbour. With some awesome reversing we managed to secure a spot with an already packed carpark making casting a real worry. We baited and went out hoping for something a little interesting. After an hour sheppey got a hard bite but nothing on, with the salt I decided to cast in the same direction and picked up a medium flounder bigger than normal but no more than a lb. By this stage we were wanting to pack down with neither having great waterproof gear and myself freezing. Last few casts sheppey saved a blank by picking up a coallie again just around a lb, with the weather turning again we packed up and had a few beer instead.
This is the second time this year weve tried portrush and nothings happened for us.
The next day and a hangover later we headed to port ballentrey (mispelled I think) and tryed both sides of the bay for about an hour each again no luck and seaweed just being the main trouble.
Not a bad weekend just not great for fishing
At least you got a fish each...
