Duration: dawn to 8pm
Tide: all states
Weather: flat calm and sunny
Bait: ragworm, sand eel and mackerel
Rigs: 2 up 1 down, spinners, rubber shads, slug-go's
Results: pollack, coalfish, flounder and a 5 bearded rockling
Report:
well it was the weekend again and the forecast was finally looking up for a change
so we planned a full day of fishing via a few different disclipines and marks to see what the fish were gonna fancy. so a daytime rock session followed by an evening on the beach was on the cards. with the car loaded and a 6am alarm call we high tailed it up the county antrim coast to get our fishing fix
we got onto our rock mark when it was still dull and headlights were needed to safely navigate our way to our spot. but when we got there the fishing began in ernest and i thought we were gonna be quids in when a nice coalfish nailed my spinner just as dawn was breaking. but sadly not as the next 5 hours were fishless
but i was just made up to christen my new spinning rod and finally beat junior to the punch by landing the first fish
but my happiness was soon cut short when by brand new rod imploded mid cast
. i was gutted 
a 45g lure somehow managed to snap my new shakespeare salt xt spin 10ft rod just above the reel seat. the rod is rated to a 3oz cast weight so i have no idea what the heck had happened to cause this catastrophic failure in the blank. so it will be returning to the shop this week to be replaced 
ahy hoo, back to the fishing
the rest of the day on the rocks was fishless for me, but junior did well getting a couple of pollack weighing a couple of pounds on a shad and on ragworm under a sliding float set up. he was made up and "yet again" outfished me
so none of us blanked on the rocks and we went back to the car to sort a feed and get set for an evening on the beach
as it turned out the beach fishing was a dead loss
i had 2 tiny flounder and a 5 bearded rockling and junior blanked!! i finally got one up on him for a change
and one of my flounder was a lefty. the first lefty of the year for me which was a nice bonus
so by 8pm our bellies were grumbling and we packed up and headed for home. when we were up at the car darren from ballycastle was setting up and we had a chat and a catch up. good to see you again man, i hope you did better than us on the beach
another end to another weekends fishing and we both caught fish, what more could ya ask for
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