Duration:6pm to 11pm both evenings
Tide:last hour of drop and then rising
Weather:cool on 29th ,,glorious on 31st,,slack winds
Bait:crab ,,,rag
Rigs:pulleys and 2 hook flapper
Results:Smoothies, doggies, whiting
Report:29th May,,,,,After getting a call from Neil on Wednesday night to inform me that he and Mitch had been hammering Smoothies all evening I was in a pretty low mood
,,,,considering I had decided not to go out on that night 
. Luckily on Thursday my darling wife got me some frozen and live peelers from Craig in Dublin Angling Centre in Walkinstown. He even gave her a bag of various legs and claws which were to play a vital part in Saturday evenings session,,,,but more of that later 
. I came home from work,,,,loaded the van,,,ate me dindins and was on the m50 in no time. Unfortunately the traffic was brutal,,,,well it was rush hour after all,,,,and then it got brutal again after Wicklow town,,,but I persevered and finally arrived at my chosen venue just after 6pm. I lashed out a crab bait as far as I could on my new rod,,,a Century Carbon Metal,,courtesy of Fishface,,,what a buddy 
. I had gotten a new reel seat fitted in Dublin Angling so I was glad to be finally able to use this rod. I normally use my Greys Triplex for smoothies and I found the CCM is a lot lighter and thinner but I was still able to whack a bait out a good distance and by the end of the session I had decided to use the CCM as my main beach rod. I had a tug on this after 10 mins or so and was delighted to christen the rod with a small doggie sized smoothie,,happy days. I recast and sat down trying to figure out how to video myself and then use the timer on my camera. When I looked up the line had gone slack and I jumped up and started to reel in the slack line. Nothing there,,,,nothing there,,,,,kept on reeling,,,nothing,,,nothing,,,,and then BANG!,,,fish on. He was quite near the shore when I connected with him but it was quite a struggle to beach him,,,what a fight and all on video "HANG ON DAVE,,YOU FORGOT TO TURN IT ON 
". Still,,,I had caught my first decent Smoothie of the season so it wasn't all bad and at least the news of my catch would help the Doctors who were still struggling to get the smile off Fishface's face from the night before . I had another two biggies,,,as I call them,,,and a heap of doggie sized ones,,,great night's fishing and well worth the rush down after work and the late night drive home!Here's a short video of some of what happened,,,i'm the one in the hat who keeps sticking his tongue out,,,it's a nervous reaction to getting a decent fish after a barren few months on the East Coast
Photos
31st May,,,,Bank Holiday weekend means packed beaches,,,campers on beaches,,,nowhere to park,,,,so would it be worth it to go out fishing,,,,BLOODY RIGHT IT WOULD
. With Fishface perming oul wan's hair all day I knew I would get there before him so I gave myself plenty of time to get to our chosen spot but when I arrived it was choc a bloc to say the least . I drove by all the usual spots but they all were packed out with no room to park up. Eventually I found a quiet corner and unloaded the van. I walked the short distance but when I arrived at the beach I saw 4 tents with a gang of early 20's youths getting set up for the night. I set up and they came over for a chat,,,they turned out to be a really nice bunch and they were amazed when I told them I was fishing for sharks,,,,they thought I was joking but you should have seen the look on their faces when I landed a decent smoothie . Neil arrived and set up and we had a great evenings fishing,,,catching smoothies ,,doggies and a solitary pin whiting. Great to see decent numbers of Smoothound around at the moment,,,,this is what we've been waiting for over the long winter 
. Neil left his house and forgot his flask of frozen peeler so he only had 4 crab,,,,he decided to reuse the same bits of crab which turned out to be very successful. He cut the crab into thirds and landed 3 smoothies on one of the thirds ,,,even doing a dance when he got the third one!
Here's a few more photos!
I'm the one holding the bigger smoothies,,,,there were no photos of Neil with big ones
