Courtown, Co.Wexford June 24th (Recovery day!)

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#1 Post by jd » Sat Jun 25, 2011 12:56 pm

People: JD and Pete

Duration: 3 hours (too long) 2:15pm - 5pm or so

Tide: High at 3:30 pm

Weather: Cold South Easterly, wet miserable horrible etc

Bait: Lug rag sand eel crab mack

Rigs: Flappers and clip downs

Results:
Pete - Dogs and a whiting
JD - pup smuts, flounders and a dab

Report:

Not having to work because I had what the company has euphemistically called a "recovery" day, I decided to pop down to Courtown for a bit of fishing.I dropped into Courtown tackle to collect bait and met Pete, had a chat with Dave and said hello to Jayball10 and his mates. Pete and I grabbed a quick bite and I headed to the beach, Pete coming down a bit later.
Anyway it was miserable. Not a day for a sociable chat between our rods, we spend most of the few hours hiding in our beach buddies. I had pups and flounders in close, Pete picking up the dogs and whiting at distance. I put one out a bit further (couldn't say at distance

) and had a smut and a nice dab.
We had enough at this point and headed back to Pete's for a cup of coffee (cheers)

By the way on the way down there was a speed van on the Arklow by-pass, just before it changes from dual-carriageway to motorway. It is actually one of the enforcement zones on this map http://www.garda.ie/Controller.aspx?Page=6497 , but you could easily get caught out if you start increasing speed too quickly. I think I'm ok-I checked the gps logs from the phone....

#2 Post by **Jayball10** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 3:11 pm

Fair play JD, nice to meet yis at the shop. We had very similar results ourselves.

Weather was absolutely nasty. Didnt let up for 2 seconds! Hopefully will pick up soon.....

Think we got stung by that van too...

#3 Post by **eyesreilly** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 3:39 pm

I presume this was the 24th as it was truly a horrible day yesterday

. Anyways nice to get a few in those conditions, well done. That road is always well policed. You have to pay attention alright

#4 Post by jd » Sat Jun 25, 2011 3:45 pm

eyesreilly wrote:I presume this was the 24th

Corrected

#5 Post by **roger de dodger** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 4:24 pm

nice to get a few fish ,myself gordy and conor started fishing at 730 on courtown north not a drop of rain all night lovely and warm to,teashirt weather ,we had a bag of chips in courtown and a cuppa at 6 ish, thought you,d want to be mad out fishing in weather like that

looks like we where right

we all got a few fish,flounder and pups and not one doggie

i had twenty five on thursday night and didnt miss them one bit

did you ever go into a shop and think i know that lad from somewhere and think he looks just like a lad you know and know he,s thinking the same

YES PETE that was me in the garage

funny how people look different when they arnt in waders ,jacket and big woolly hat

#6 Post by **dfella25** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 6:15 pm

roger de dodger wrote:nice to get a few fish ,myself gordy and conor started fishing at 730 on courtown north

After driving around around for hours looking for cover!

Nice report JD. Was a pretty miserable day all right. But my phone told me it would stop at 8..........and it did:)

#7 Post by **roger de dodger** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 7:41 pm

dfella25 wrote:
roger de dodger wrote:nice to get a few fish ,myself gordy and conor started fishing at 730 on courtown north
After driving around around for hours looking for cover!

Nice report JD. Was a pretty miserable day all right. But my phone told me it would stop at 8..........and it did:)

shame your phone couldnt find a big smoothie

it was spot on about the weather to within minutes

#8 Post by **dfella25** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 8:03 pm

Well it found them for you last week;)

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