Time: 8:30pm to 11:45pm
Tide: flooding,High water around 12
Bait: ragworm
Venue: north Dublin beach
Results: 3 Smooth hound and 1 bass
With the current restrictions in place we couldn’t travel too far so we arrived at this north Dublin spot with low expectations, hoping for a flattie or 2, maybe a schoolie bass if we got really lucky but as it turns out things went better than expected.
Fishing a simple 2 hook flapper, size 1 hooks with half a ragworm on each we were set up and fishing at 8:30pm about 2 hours into the flood. There was a bit of a surf and straight away weed was a problem. After a couple of hours of no bites and the weed doing my head we had been pushed back up the beach and with that the sea calmed and the weed eased off and an hour of action started
Noticed the first bite of the night and knew it wasn’t a flattie, reeled him in and it was a bass, close to 40cm I’d say, I've no measuring tape or scales cos I usually catch nothing worth measuring
absolutely chuffed, never caught a bass before.Next up, to my surprise were the smooth hound, wasn’t expecting to come across them at this spot, shows you how much I know, anyways, he wasn’t huge, a couple of pounds maybe, caught on half a ragworm. I had a couple frozen peeler with me so I lashed them out but that wasn’t touched so switched back to the rag and a caught another couple hounds, the best probably being around 5 pounds I’d guess.
My buddy who was fishing with me suffered a catastrophic equipment failure in the middle of the session and I lent him a spare rod and reel I had in the car, a “beachcaster” that I’d picked up in Lidl years ago. He had some sport with it as he caught 3 smoothies as well
similar size to the ones I caught. Great little session at a spot that I’d never have normally fished on and it’s only up the road as well.
