Duration:16.00-21.00
Tide:Dropping, Over HW (17.30) and down
Weather:Sunshine, rain, sleet, wind, calm
Bait:Black lug and frozen mack
Rigs: 3-hook flapper
Results:Coleys, flounder and turbot
Report: Up home for a few days over Christmas so time for a festive fish! Headed to Culdaff to fish the last hour of daylight and intended to fish it until mid-tide and hopefully bag a few fat flounder. Got to the mark and the surf looked lovely! Started off on first cast with a coley to 34cm, he was hooked in the gills and bleeding badly so I did the decent thing and took him home for dinner. Once the light started to fade properly the coleyfest really started. Plenty of small fish about 20-25cm. Reckoned this might be the way of it until the tide began to drop and the flounder came on a bit but a small turbot kept things interesting. At this stage the wind was fairly biting and I was trying to decide if I wanted to wait 2 hours for the flounder to show or not. Decided to move to the more sheltered Shroove beach but was retrieving when I got a nice bang which turned out to be a nice thick 36cm flounder so a great way to finish with Culdaff. Packed up and headed to Shroove. Got there about 18.15 and a stroll down to the beach proved that it was a bit more angler friendly! First cast produced another coley followed shortly by a flounder/coley double. Fishing seemed to die then, tried varying the distances but only picked up another coley to about 20 cm. All fish taken on mack in both venues. All-in-all a handy enough session
Nice few cspecies 
