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#1 Post by gavind19 »

People: myself

Duration:six hours

Tide:HW 14.30

Weather: sunny shining bit of a breeze

Bait: macs and lug

Rigs:3 hook flappers and wire traces

Finally got a few days of work to try a bit of fishing. Weather was decent enough for a change. Slow start to the day but gradually picked up as did the wind. After an hour the conger rod started to bend and up popped a conger to get my day off and running (good scrap). This was followed by a few good flounder but the best was yet to come. Starting to get kinda slack I said to myself one more cast with the beach rod nothing to lose. After ten minutes my rod folded in half, took me ten minutes to get the bugger in avoiding weed and pots was not an easy task. After much sweating a nice ray appeared at the surface much to my relief.
Overall a great days fishing and hope to get out again very soon :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Results[/b 2 congers, 4 flounder, 2 rays, rockling and ballan wrasse




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#2 Post by Creep »

well that was an easy report to read :D
list 2013 (10) Ballan Wrasse, (17) Smooth Hounds (6lb, 2oz, best so far this year), (47) LSD, (2) shore Rockling, (1) Long spine scorpion, (9) flounder, (8) Dab (2)Bass (3) Mackerel (2) lance (2) Plaice (2) Pollock (1) whiting

List 2012: (83) Whitting, (2) Plaice, (20) 5 Beard Rockling, (3) Coalie, (1) 3 Beard Rockling PB 40cm, (8)Pouting, (1) poor cod, (49) LSD(PB: 3lb.2oz), (1) Shore Rockling, (2) Codling, (2) Long Spine Scorpion, (6) Pollock (25) flounder (b) (1) mackrel (1) Turbot PB19cm (10)dab (6) Smooth Hound (2) Twaite Shad, (2)Thornback Ray(PB: 4lb 5oz), (34) Mackrel (Shore), (35) Lance PB31cm, (1) pipe fish, (1)Bull Huss 3lb 150z, (1) Octopus (2)corkwing wrasse, (1) Dragonet

List 2011: 16 species (267 fish caught)

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#3 Post by tight lines »

great report :roll: :roll: nice fishing well done
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#4 Post by joebhoy »

Nice report! great fishing lads.

Lovely Ray :D
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#5 Post by fishy1987 »

:D jaysus some nice fish there big flattie cracker of a ray and a few congers =good fishing congrats
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Species 2011 (25) :Cod 80 , Whiting 50 , Coalfish 42 , Sea Scorpion 6(3shortspined/3longspined) , (3b)Rockling 2 , Dogfish 72 , Flounder 32 , Bass 2 , Poor Cod 16 , Dab 16 , Ballen Wrasse 2 , Turbot 1 , Tompot Blenny 3 , Smoothhound 1 , Tub Gurnard 1 , Mackeral 78 , Pollock 10 , Corkwing wrasse 2 , Black Goby 5 , Pouting 4 , Cuckoo Wrasse 1 , Ling 1 , Conger eel 6 , Silver eel 1 , ( Year End 31st October )
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#6 Post by dave316 »

great session, well done there.
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#7 Post by gavind19 »

thanks for the replys lads :) :)
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#8 Post by FisherKing »

Nice session 8) keep them comming
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#9 Post by chuckaroo »

nice wee report. great fishing.
nice conger and ray
and thats a lovely looking flounder.. what weight or length was it?
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#10 Post by biker »

nice fishing dude :D
2011 species: pollock,mackeral,coalfish,whiting,codling,conger,flounder,dogfish,pouting.Not bad for my first few months fishing :)

2012 species: Coalfish (13), Bass (1), Rockling (5), Ballan wrasse (2), Pollock (57), Dogfish (8),
Whiting (1), Conger (1)

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#11 Post by last cast lad »

Great to see that the odd ray is still about, their numbers usually thin out a bit over winter, well done
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