Waterfoot

Haven't had much luck catching flatties lately. Wondering if there are still a few around the pier?

Thank you very muchee.

Yeah you will get them from the peir and from the beach, you dont have to cast out very far to get them!

Thanks.

I took a run up this morning. Just got two small pollock but the pier was a bit of a mess with bait bags blowing around and rotting weed etc. Is it always like that?

There was some guy there with 4 rods out and a lot of the lidl gear (got some myself) but he had a plastic bin with a four inch wrasse and a six inch flatfish in it. What is that about? Surely there is some kind of legal size for keeping fish like that unless he hadn't eaten for a week and even then...

Its usually not that bad, but id tend to avoid the Pier at night, the beach fishes really well, as for the guy who fishes for team Lidle you get them all the time, be it bangor, portrush or Cobh id say the summer months are plauged with these guys killing tiddlers the same guys have cleaned out some Loughs around the contry.

Ill not get started on that as im in working and im drunk off enough

me and my mate from work fished it from 2am on the 14th to 9am and got 7 dogs, 2 codling, 3 coalies, 2 dab 2 shore rockling and 3 whiting. and sadly the place looked like a dump with empty bait bags and packets and wrappers all over the place. loads of empty beer cans all over the place too. and the irony of it is that there is a big EMPTY bin 15 foot from where all the rubbish was. total disgrace . but if it's flatties you're after go over to the beach and fish it from 2 hours into the flood right down to low water again. pure flattie heaven and you only have to cast 20 to 30 foot in front of you . the flounder will come in until they are in only inches of water. a 3 hook flapper rig baited with rag and tipped off with a tiny sliver of mackeral is deadly for them. hope this helps mate.

this is a trend that seems to be country wide go fishing bring all ur mates boy racer car bag of cans music blearing
was on howth pier last week gardai done a drugs raid on 2 such tcars u never seen so many lumps thrown in the water
i say all the crabs were for the stoned for a week also a big factor on the rubbish is there is no overtime for the councils
opratives they now only work mon to fri

that might be why the crabs are hitting the baits so hard in some harbours lately,,,,,, serious case of the munchies

I try to avoid waterfoot pier at all costs. I completly agree it is always like a rubbish tip. disgraceful!!! There is also a couty antrim rock mark that is dense with rubbish.

It can prove a safe bet someties tho. I have yet to fish the beach will give it a go possibly this weekend.