"Flounderville", East Cork, 07/11/2008

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"Flounderville", East Cork, 07/11/2008

Postby thescotsman » Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:27 am

People: me and petekd

Duration: 20:30-23:00

Tide: HW around 23:00

Weather: southerly breeze, relatively mild

Bait: razor, rag, black lug, mack, crab

Rigs: 3 hook flappers, pulley

Results: me - 3 flounder (I think 4 but Pete tells me only 3 :roll: must be losing my mind)
Pete - 10 flounder at the finish (to 39cm)




Report: Headed to a beach we haven't fished for a while. Was looking dodgy there as we left, with the rain pouring down and flooding on the roads, but we thought we'd chance it as it looked like a heavy shower that would pass. Low and behold, the rain stopped just as we pulled up to the beach. Was it an omen we wondered...
Well to start with wasn't looking great, Pete cracked off first cast and our first couple of retrieves yielded nothing, and the baits were untouched. I was starting to wonder where all the fish were when I heard a shout to my left which left me in no doubt where they all were. That jammy Mr Davis had just pulled in 5 flounder, 3 on his regulation trace and 2 on the trace that he'd cracked off earlier and had managed to retrieve. Looked mighty impressive with 5 flounder strung out along the beach ( he was still disappointed that they hadn't touched the 6th hook :lol: ). The attached photo of them is pretty poor, but you get the idea....
Followed a steady stream of flounder then for the next hour. Strangely bites were conspicuous by their absence, the fish just seemed to be sitting on the bait. Only the big flounder making themselves known. Most were taken at about 50yds out, Pete was getting them at a bit of distance as well. My distance rod was untouched the whole night (variety of baits). Pete's flounder came mainly to rag and mack strips, mine to rag and lug.
With early starts in the morning we headed off job done, I dare say, had we stayed, it would have continued in the same vein, the place was just carpeted in flounder. Anyway, learned another trick from Pete for picking up the flounder, which I won't reveal here :wink:
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Re: "Flounderville", East Cork, 07/11/2008

Postby rab 525 » Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:36 am

well done lads
if it cant get its jaws round a 1/0 its not worth catching [ mullet excluded ]
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Re: "Flounderville", East Cork, 07/11/2008

Postby petekd » Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:43 am

Yes, a cracking little session although starting off with a crack off on the first cast (again..... :oops: ) did not bode well. The 5 in a line were some sight coming up the beach in a perfectly spaced row like some form of train. Conditions for floundering were absolutely perfect on the night so its no surprise we got into a few. What was puzzling was the total lack of interest from anything else, no coalies, no whiting, no bass..... Still, kept busy enough with the flounder so not to worry. Black lug and some frozen down from the weekend blow lug tipped with mack strips did the most damage.
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Re: "Flounderville", East Cork, 07/11/2008

Postby corbyeire » Fri Nov 07, 2008 1:09 pm

that is a deadly photo!

spreading it thick and sticky as ever pete!
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Re: "Flounderville", East Cork, 07/11/2008

Postby kstaff » Fri Nov 07, 2008 2:35 pm

Probably the best Fish Pic I've ever seen!!! :D Incredible!!

Great session.
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Re: "Flounderville", East Cork, 07/11/2008

Postby RockHunter » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:13 pm

thescotsman wrote:That jammy Mr Davis had just pulled in 5 flounder, 3 on his regulation trace and 2 on the trace that he'd cracked off earlier


That was some result :shock: :shock:
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Re: "Flounderville", East Cork, 07/11/2008

Postby peakle » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:28 pm

fished the same venue this morning following tip off from mr domeney four flats to 38cm and one solitary bass 52cm violent surf with wind in face bites hard to see except bass perfect condition though no weed moved east after one flat 42cm good session
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Re: "Flounderville", East Cork, 07/11/2008

Postby thescotsman » Fri Nov 07, 2008 5:32 pm

peakle wrote:fished the same venue this morning following tip off from mr domeney four flats to 38cm and one solitary bass 52cm violent surf with wind in face bites hard to see except bass perfect condition though no weed moved east after one flat 42cm good session


Nice one, good to see the old grapevine doing the business :D
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Re: "Flounderville", East Cork, 07/11/2008

Postby alby » Fri Nov 07, 2008 6:05 pm

thescotsman wrote:That jammy Mr Davis had just pulled in 5 flounder, 3 on his regulation trace and 2 on the trace that he'd cracked off earlier


Will ye go way out of that, he was using the infamous "Pete" rig, it's a 5 hook flapper with a pennel on a flier :twisted:
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Re: "Flounderville", East Cork, 07/11/2008

Postby g.wyse » Fri Nov 07, 2008 10:31 pm

Nice session lads... :D As for jammy Davis,he's doing this sort of thing so often now even i'm starting to wonder is he as good as he keeps telling me he is.. :twisted: :lol: :D
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Re: "Flounderville", East Cork, 07/11/2008

Postby donal domeney » Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:20 pm

[quote="petekd"]Yes, a cracking little session although starting off with a crack off on the first cast (again..... :oops: ) did not bode well. quote]

If I can remember rightly there is some rule there about ground baiting an area during a competition :lol:

Now Pete before you dive into the key pad claiming that this was not a competition :o :o when have YOU ever gone out for a lazy session and did not try( to whip all around you).
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Re: "Flounderville", East Cork, 07/11/2008

Postby MikeQ » Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:24 am

Deadly fishing there lads :-) Went out for a a few hours tonight and tried a few beaches on the East Coast. Couldnt buy a bite!! Absolutely filthy night too which added in no small way to the enjoyment of it all. Not to mention the 2 hours digging lug with high expectation before that :-( Ah well tis all craic :-)
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