waterford 9/11
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waterford 9/11
People:myself and errol
Duration:4.30pm -12am
Tide:hw 10.10 pm
Weather:flat calm but wet
Bait:fresh and frozen crab
Rigs:pennel pullys
Results: cod,flounder,whiting,eels
Report:things had not gone to plan during the week trying to get crab after geting up at 5 am and 6 am wens & thurs i had a total of 11 fresh crab for myself but i had the back up of a stock of frozen so it was not ideal but we headed to a well knowen waterford mark on arrival there was 1 local lad fishing but he had no joy yet after a quick chat i was a bit more hopeful with him telling me the weather had being good most of the week and not much rain so not much fresh water in the river got rod set up and cast out and both our first casts we landed a flounder each soon after i was rolling a smoke when i seen a good knock on one of my rods so i droped the smoke and struck into my first half desent codling of the winter at just under 3 lb the fishing was steady enough after that with small codling and flounder keeping us interested then errol had 2 eels in 2 cast witch lucky enough wear hooked nicely so no messed up rigs i then got a small tap followed by a strong take and slack line reeled in the slack and lifted into the fish this fish felt better alot better running left and the right after a good battle i got it close to the bank and it took 1 more good run left stright over errols lines resulting a bit of a mess and then my heart drop as i felt the hook pop and no weight on the line anymore but that life i will get it next time we finshed off with some more flounder small codling eels and a single whiting the first i have got from this mark
Duration:4.30pm -12am
Tide:hw 10.10 pm
Weather:flat calm but wet
Bait:fresh and frozen crab
Rigs:pennel pullys
Results: cod,flounder,whiting,eels
Report:things had not gone to plan during the week trying to get crab after geting up at 5 am and 6 am wens & thurs i had a total of 11 fresh crab for myself but i had the back up of a stock of frozen so it was not ideal but we headed to a well knowen waterford mark on arrival there was 1 local lad fishing but he had no joy yet after a quick chat i was a bit more hopeful with him telling me the weather had being good most of the week and not much rain so not much fresh water in the river got rod set up and cast out and both our first casts we landed a flounder each soon after i was rolling a smoke when i seen a good knock on one of my rods so i droped the smoke and struck into my first half desent codling of the winter at just under 3 lb the fishing was steady enough after that with small codling and flounder keeping us interested then errol had 2 eels in 2 cast witch lucky enough wear hooked nicely so no messed up rigs i then got a small tap followed by a strong take and slack line reeled in the slack and lifted into the fish this fish felt better alot better running left and the right after a good battle i got it close to the bank and it took 1 more good run left stright over errols lines resulting a bit of a mess and then my heart drop as i felt the hook pop and no weight on the line anymore but that life i will get it next time we finshed off with some more flounder small codling eels and a single whiting the first i have got from this mark
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Re: waterford 9/11
Nice one Alan a few fish for your efforts 

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Set him on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
Species from the shore 2011:21
Species from the shore 2012:34,
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Species from the shore 2014:36
Species from the shore 2015:35
Species from the shore 2016:30
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Re: waterford 9/11
Whats up mate,
we fished Waterford on Sunday morning from 9am to 2pm all we had was a few small codling, whiting and flounder no big cod or takes from any. might be better trying the marks during darkness.
we fished Waterford on Sunday morning from 9am to 2pm all we had was a few small codling, whiting and flounder no big cod or takes from any. might be better trying the marks during darkness.
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Re: waterford 9/11
hi sam i find fishing the darkness much better never had good results fishing waterford/youghal during day light for codsamo wrote:Whats up mate,
we fished Waterford on Sunday morning from 9am to 2pm all we had was a few small codling, whiting and flounder no big cod or takes from any. might be better trying the marks during darkness.
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Re: waterford 9/11
We'll done , nice busy session alan
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Re: waterford 9/11
We have caught good fish during the day down that way im thinking it might be a little early. any size in the whiting? we had one that was 37cm.tight lines wrote:hi sam i find fishing the darkness much better never had good results fishing waterford/youghal during day light for codsamo wrote:Whats up mate,
we fished Waterford on Sunday morning from 9am to 2pm all we had was a few small codling, whiting and flounder no big cod or takes from any. might be better trying the marks during darkness.
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Re: waterford 9/11
i gave up fishing in daylight down that way never had any good fish lots of smaller ones and some good flounder but thats about it the whiting was only 28 cm but well feadsamo wrote:We have caught good fish during the day down that way im thinking it might be a little early. any size in the whiting? we had one that was 37cm.tight lines wrote:hi sam i find fishing the darkness much better never had good results fishing waterford/youghal during day light for codsamo wrote:Whats up mate,
we fished Waterford on Sunday morning from 9am to 2pm all we had was a few small codling, whiting and flounder no big cod or takes from any. might be better trying the marks during darkness.
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Re: waterford 9/11
Well done Alan nice cod and I know that mark.....
Should be fighting fit in next week or so to head down that way.... 


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Re: waterford 9/11
nice one alan,some nice cod and flounder, need to get out meself 

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