People:Me.
Duration:5 hrs on 17th, 6.5 hrs at 2 marks on 18th.
Tide:Around low tide on 17th, last of ebb and around high tide on 18th.
Weather:Calm, mild, showery on Wed and increasingly windy on Thursday.
Bait:Lug, mackerel, sandeel, razorfish.
Rigs:1 up 1 down, 2 hook flappers, single hook clipped.
Results:pouting, pollack, rockling, codling and flounder.
Report:
Wednesday; I got out for a while with the intention of using up some left-over lug and the evening started quite well with 2 pouting on the first 2 casts including the best at 27cm. It then went very quiet with just the occasional bite. I was fishing 2 rods, one at distance over sand, which produced little or nothing and the other close in over slightly rougher ground. A couple more small pouting followed as well as the first rockling of the autumn/winter at 27cm and a couple of small pollack to 27cm. This seemed to be the popular size of the night. A small codling ( though at 24cm, bigger than his Louth coast cousins) also showed up. So nothing huge but with 4 species, a bit of variety.
Thursday; The first session fished the last 3 hrs of the ebb tide and started off well with a nice 30cm flounder on the first cast but that was it, not a bite for the next 2 and 3/4 hrs with all baits left untouched. So after a pitstop for a tank full of diesel and a stomach full of burger and chips, I headed for another mark. By now the wind had strengthened and was blowing straight in to my face, I intended fishing close in anyway. Again, first cast produced a flounder to mackerel strip which I thought would break through the 40cm barrier but didn't quite but I was still very pleased with a new PB at 39cm and weighing 1lb 12 oz. A short time later a determined bite produced a 30cm pollack to sandeel bait. That was it for the night apart from one more half-hearted bite which came to nothing so with my eyes full of windblown sand and salt spray I headed for home.
Donegal Bay, 17th and 18th October 2012; PB flounder.
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Donegal Bay, 17th and 18th October 2012; PB flounder.
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Re: Donegal Bay, 17th and 18th October 2012; PB flounder.
Nice variety of fish and congrats on that fine flounder great fish 
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Re: Donegal Bay, 17th and 18th October 2012; PB flounder.
thats more like it JW 
good pics. brilliant flounder - congrats on that, hope it made it worth it
good pics. brilliant flounder - congrats on that, hope it made it worth it
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Re: Donegal Bay, 17th and 18th October 2012; PB flounder.
fair play JW nice flounder there did it go home with you or back into the suds.
Species 2012: Flounder, Whiting, Dublin Bay Codling, Coalie, 3 Beard Rockling, Shore Rockling, Bass, Dogfish, 5.2lb Starry Smoothhound (PB), Twaite Shad, Thornback Ray 5.8lbs (PB), LSD, Pollock, Ballan Wrasse, Cork Wing Wrasse, 43cm Flounder (PB)
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Re: Donegal Bay, 17th and 18th October 2012; PB flounder.
Well done on the Pb Flounder, fine fish I'll be trying some beaches up that way soon myself for a few.
I'll be trying some beaches up that way soon myself for a few.Cheers Brian
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Re: Donegal Bay, 17th and 18th October 2012; PB flounder.
nice flounder
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Re: Donegal Bay, 17th and 18th October 2012; PB flounder.
Nice variety of fish there J W. Well done.
Ya should a been here last week.
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Re: Donegal Bay, 17th and 18th October 2012; PB flounder.
Thanks R1D2; big enough to serve some fish fingers on?roger de dodger wrote:nice flounder
I'll keep an eye out for you!FisherKing wrote:Well done on the Pb Flounder, fine fish
To Sparkey+1, thanks and the fish went back, maybe next week he'll be 40cm!
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Re: Donegal Bay, 17th and 18th October 2012; PB flounder.
Good fishing there. Lovely Flounder
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