Smoothounds North Wexford
Sun Jul 05, 2020 11:44 am
Fishing tide from Low to High
Warm and Sunny changing to very windy
Rigs Pully Pennel and 2 hook flapper
Bait frozen crab and dead ragworm
Arrived at the North Wexford Beach to find it surprizingly quiet thankfully. The wind was coming up the coast and over my shoulder and the sea was fairly calm. I took out my ragworm to discover it hadnt survived from thursday. so i placed it in fresh sand and water. Took out some frozen crab also. I decided to cast out the 2 hook rig with small pieces of rag with small hooks to see if there was anything stirring. Straight away into action with bites and in came a dab. Baited up the 2 hook rig with the dead rag and cast out and loosened off the drag. After a minute the rod nearly came off the stand. A nice smoothie put up a great scrap and in it came. I didnt have time to use the second rod and continued using the 2 hook rig with the rag. Another three smoothies followed. It was a fish a cast. I took a break and had a quick bite myself. I decided to try the frozen crab on the pully rig to see how it would go. No action and changed to the rag and nearly straight away into a nice smoothie. Next cast a tiny whiting. I put aside the pully rig and returned to the flapper rig with tiny rag and another nice smoothie. The wind was picking up and with the tide, the sea was getting wild. Only small whiting now and bites that werent producing. Getting dark I headed for the hills.
Warm and Sunny changing to very windy
Rigs Pully Pennel and 2 hook flapper
Bait frozen crab and dead ragworm
Arrived at the North Wexford Beach to find it surprizingly quiet thankfully. The wind was coming up the coast and over my shoulder and the sea was fairly calm. I took out my ragworm to discover it hadnt survived from thursday. so i placed it in fresh sand and water. Took out some frozen crab also. I decided to cast out the 2 hook rig with small pieces of rag with small hooks to see if there was anything stirring. Straight away into action with bites and in came a dab. Baited up the 2 hook rig with the dead rag and cast out and loosened off the drag. After a minute the rod nearly came off the stand. A nice smoothie put up a great scrap and in it came. I didnt have time to use the second rod and continued using the 2 hook rig with the rag. Another three smoothies followed. It was a fish a cast. I took a break and had a quick bite myself. I decided to try the frozen crab on the pully rig to see how it would go. No action and changed to the rag and nearly straight away into a nice smoothie. Next cast a tiny whiting. I put aside the pully rig and returned to the flapper rig with tiny rag and another nice smoothie. The wind was picking up and with the tide, the sea was getting wild. Only small whiting now and bites that werent producing. Getting dark I headed for the hills.
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Re: Smoothounds North Wexford
Sun Jul 05, 2020 12:22 pm
Didn't think dead rag was still worth using, here's me throwing it away 
Re: Smoothounds North Wexford
Sun Jul 05, 2020 1:19 pm
Yeah was just going to say if it was me I would have turfed the dead rag into the sea. Great session Fair play
Re: Smoothounds North Wexford
Sun Jul 05, 2020 2:57 pm
Some lovely looking hounds sean, nice one!
Re: Smoothounds North Wexford
Sun Jul 05, 2020 8:34 pm
Ragworm, dead or alive, seems to be the what the smoothound are taking at the moment.!! Nice report, handsome looking smoothounds. Very nice.
Re: Smoothounds North Wexford
Mon Jul 06, 2020 2:19 pm
The hounds certainly seemed to have taken up residence in the estuary for the summer.
Some nice fish there, well done.
Some nice fish there, well done.
Re: Smoothounds North Wexford
Mon Jul 06, 2020 6:59 pm
Excellent stuff. Ive a house booked for a week in August in north wexford. Hopefully I find some good fishing
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