Greystones Harbour, Co Wicklow, 28-12-12

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Greystones Harbour, Co Wicklow, 28-12-12

#1 Post by eyesreilly »

People:Me and Roger

Duration:7pm-10-45pm

Tide:HW 11pm approx

Weather:mild,wet later

Bait:frozen lug, mack, sandeel and fresh lug

Rigs:2 and 3 hook flappers

Results:Whiting, Rockling, Pouting, Pollock, Flounder,,,,,Roger also had Shore Rockling and Sea Scorpions




Report:Thursday 28th looked like being the best night of the weekend weatherwise so I decided to head out fishing, this time to Greystones Harbour. Met Roger in the car park in the Harbour and we quickly baited up and cast out. There was another angler arriving as we got there and we found 2 guys already set up, so there was plenty of room . I set up 2 rods and put one bait in the channel and dropped the other down the wall. The 2 guys left shortly after we arrived and the other angler , who was casting out to sea, was soon in with a treble of 2 5 beards and a whiting, followed by a double soon after . Myself and Dodger soon got in on the act and the fish thankfully obliged us for most of the night. Dodger got a beauty of a shore rockling at 36cms and fat to boot while my best fish were pollock and Flounder,,in the late 20's cms. Plenty of other species to be had, including Whiting, Sea Scorpions, Pouting and 5 beard Rockling. We both had a couple of one eyed fish,,,,possibly as a result of being caught and returned, who knows :roll: ,,the fish were keeping tight lipped about it :wink: . I found that my best bait was frozen lug , or shoelaces as Roger calls them, tipped with mack. It seemed to outfish the fresh lug.The rain started to fall for the last hour , but we were well kitted out for it and it thankfully wasn't too heavy. We both ran out of bait at the same time and headed home about 10-45pm,,,,,,with me having once again lost 2 rigs to the snaggy ground :roll:
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Species '20 (14) 5 Beard Rockling, Shore Rockling, Codling, Whiting, Pollock, Coalfish, Pouting, Corkwing Wrasse ,Ballan Wrasse, Poor Cod, Dab ,Smoothhound,Flounder, Thornback Ray


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Re: Greystones Harbour, Co Wicklow, 28-12-12

#2 Post by JPA »

another nice session, well done !

Hum, a one eyed pollack... does it count as a new species, may be a mutant ?! :lol:
2011 : pollack
2012 : whiting, dogfish, gurnard, flounder, smooth hound, poor cod, pollack, ballan wrasse, corkwing wrasse, goldshinny wrasse, blenny, bass, codling, rockling, dab, pouting, pollack, sea scorpion
2013 : codling(ie), rockling(ie), wrasse(fr), whiting(fr)
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Re: Greystones Harbour, Co Wicklow, 28-12-12

#3 Post by anthony byrne »

Nice selection of fish !
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Nice Greystones selection box for xmas,,,good stuff eyes.
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Re: Greystones Harbour, Co Wicklow, 28-12-12

#5 Post by JOHN1 »

nice mix lads well done 8) , I was out in the boat again last night ill put up a mini report later :wink: .
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Re: Greystones Harbour, Co Wicklow, 28-12-12

#6 Post by cathalger »

Lovely selection Eyes, great pics of some nice lookin fish. The pollack are a lovely silvery pale colour, pouting looks well also.
2013 Sea Species:- Bass, Flounder, 5 Beard Rockling, Shore Rockling, Whiting, red gurnard, grey gurnard, Pollack, coley, mackerel, sea trout, cant remember cos I didn't update at the time.....
2012 Sea species:- Pollack, Coley, Mackerel, Cod, Bass, Sea Trout, Haddock, Plaice, Dab, Flounder, Red Gurnard, Grey Gurnard, Pouting, Whiting, Corkwing Wrasse, Ballan Wrasse, Lesser Spotted Dogfish, Brown Trout caught on beach.
2011 Sea species:- codling, L.S. dogfish, coley, whiting, pollack(4lb 3oz), sea trout, shore conger eel (15lb), ballan wrasse, grey gurnard, plaice, dab (and lobster).

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