Duration: about 15 hours in total
Tide: all states
Weather: sunny, calm but freezing in the wee small hours!
Bait: rag, lug, sand eel, mackerel and razor
Rigs: 2 up 1 down, pennel pulley and assorted soft plastics and lures
Results: coalfish, flounder, sea trout and BASS!!!
Report:
with another weekend upon us it was time to sit down on friday night and scower the internet weather forecast sites to see where we were gonna end up at for a spot of fishing
. with a mixed pound of rag and lug in the fridge we decided to try a beach in donegal we have had success on in the past. the forecast looked perfect and the car was quickly stripped of back seats and the fishing and camping out gear was loaded up in quick fashion and we were on the road donegal bound! 
we arrived to find the conditions almost perfect with a small surf and gin clear water all along the shore for as far as the eye could see and no real wind to talk of. we both set up our 2 rods each and got to it. but things were fishless until we lost the light, which is normal for this time of year. i was first to get a fish with a flounder taking the rag i had slipped up to the top hook of my pulley pennel and thought that this was gonna be the start of a busy session. but as it turned out the fish were few and far between
2 hours must have gone by and i started to hook into rotting 4 foot long lengths of kelp stalks on the incomming tide while junior had'nt got so much as a nibble. but at least he was'nt having to deal with the kelp which was fast becoming a nuisance for me
. i was standing with my back to jordan untangling more kelp from a rig when i heard him let out a yelp of " fish on! ". i ran up the beach just in time to see him land a nice wee sea trout of about a pound on his in close rod. he was jumping with joy and took great pleasure of reminding me that it was his second trout of the year while i still had to get a single one yet
he was lightly hooked so returning him was'nt gonna be an issue, but the poor wee chap was crawling with lice. we removed 28 with the foreceps before returning him none the worse for his dry land adventures. he gave jordan great pleasure catching him so the lice removal was our way of saying thanks before he returned to the deep blue yonder.
i returned to my rods to see a nod on the one i had that was still fishing a reeled in a tiny coalfish. nothing special, but still a fish none the less
sadly thats where my fishing ended for the night as i never got another single bite. but junior on the other hand was out to show me up again and was at his antics. we were standing talking to each other at his rods when his in close rod gave the rythmic nod, nod, nod of weed in the line. jordan reckoned it was a bite but i dismissed it as weed. well the next thing you know it got thumped by the unmistakeable bite of a fish. jordan struck into it and after 10 or so turns of the reel proclaimed he had a bass on
i thought he was winding me up, but a nice little bass was soon on dry land and jordan was revelling in the fact he told me it was a bite and identified the fish just 10 turns in
. his first bass of the year and another species up on me again. (no surprise )so we got him unhooked and a few piccys were taken and off he went back to grow up a bit bigger for another day.
jordan was made up and we stuck it out to 3am in the hope of more silver fellas turning up. but it was'nt ment to be. by now it was properly freezing and our worms were beginning to crunch when you tried to thread a hook through them
added to that, the mackerel, razor and sand eels had frozen in the bucket so we called it a day and went up to the car for some kip. after 6 freezing hours of broken sleep we got up and put the kettle on and warmed ourselves up with a pint of coffee each and a packet of orieos (
breakfast of champions). the tempreature during the night had dropped to below -5 and the condensation inside the motor had frozen in the inside of the windows not for the faint of heart
but we were spurred on with jordans success and tried the same spot for a daylight session to see if it would yield better results. but it's still early in the year and as expected we did'nt get a single nibble. so by 4pm we packed up and headed home.
on this occasion the fish were few and far between, but jordan did his usual and made up for it by getting a few of the more unusual species that we encounter on our adventures. not a bad way to round off the weekend and we'll deffo be back to this spot to try for more silver fellas in the coming weeks
two fine fish there 
