Co. Antrim beach friday 20th feb 09

People: me, jordan and dawsey

Duration: 5pm - 10pm

Tide: low to high

Weather: calm, mild and dry until 10pm when the wind picked up

Bait: rag, lug, mack and prawn

Rigs: flappers

Results: ME: 13 flounder, 8 coalies, 1 codling and 1, 5 bearded rockling. JORDAN: 10 flounder and 4 whiting. DAWSEY: 11 flounder, 3 coalies, 1 codling, 1 whiting and 1 sea trout.

Report: after weeks and weeks of persuasion dawsey finally got a run up the antrim coast with us to our beach that never fails to suprise . we got there a bit later than expected after 3 return trips to home. we were just leaving belfast when i noticed the oil light come on in the car as i forgot to top up the oil so it was back to the house for a splash and dash and back on the road again. we were half way out of belfast (again) and it dawned on me that the bait was still in the fridge at home, so back to the house again finally we got to the mark and set up as the tide was flooding back in. jordan was 20 yards to my right and dawsey 20 yards to my left. as it was dawseys first time here i put him in the hot spot, fishing a wee lagoon that never fails as the tide floods odd thing was, i was pulling in fish after fish with jordan and dawsey only getting the occasional knock for the first hour i got my first doubles of flounder and coalies before they landed a fish but by 6.30pm all the rods were bouncing away jordan and dawsey both opted to put bells on their rods, and at one stage it sounded like the ghost of christmas past was breakdancing on both sides of me( chains and all) bites and fish were coming fast and furious for us all, with us all getting flounder and coalies. me and dawsey even managed a wee codling each and jordan and dawsey got into the whiting. i knew from the weather reports it was going to be calm, so for added sport i advised dawsey to leave the bach rods at home and only bring light spinning gear with 40gram cast weight max to get the maximum sport from the session the doubles we were all getting into put a brave bend in the rods and was great sport. we were on our own until a bunch of drinkers set up camp behind us and started partying and lighting fires. there was no harm in them, but they were a bit annoying breaking out into song every now and again. but trust me,........ i think it's safe to say westlife can sleep easy in their beds tonight as these guys did'nt have the X-FACTOR. more like the becks factor by now it was nearly 10pm and the tide was on the way back out and it was last cast saloon. dawsey reeled in what i thought from a distance was a joey mackerel but was even more suprised to hear him yelp with joy that it was a sea trout . he had taken a strip of mack and was perfectly lip hooked. dawsey was made up as he had always wanted to get one, but thought he would have to wait until spring to even have a sniff at one. RESULT!!! . i was made up as well as my last fish was a 5 bearded rockling. only my 3rd of the year, but 2 more than i had in 2008 already . jordan did'nt fair so well, only getting into flounder and whiting all night. but he reckons he's saving himself for greystones next week another super session that was fairly short by our usual standards, but this wee beach never fails

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Well done guys. The seatrout are about Looks like a very active session. Bet ye can't wait to get back at em

Nice fishing again lads, plenty of fish there. Well done Dawsey with the seatrout. Good news that the flounder being caught in good numbers, might start to pick up a few in daylight now fingers crossed.

Fair play many people would have called it a day after having to turn back for home twice. your deffo putting in the hours so im sure you will be rewarded with a nice sea trout.Hope yis have a good day out in greystones.

well done lads, your being well rewarded for the time and effort that you put in.
think you'll have to get your own report section soon, as you spend more time by
the water than a seagull (not that i'm jealous or anything), dont think i'll be out till
next week (man flu again ) so it's good to see the rest of you's out and catching
in good numbers.....

Great report Al was looking forward to this one. Was a cracking wee session 1st trip up the Antrim Coast and let me tell you it won't be the last Those double shots did give us great sport on light gear, good call mate.

Cheers Rab, was really happy to get the sea trout was not expecting that one great to see the wee fella dart off back into the sea again after a few pics.

happy days lads, good fishin and well done getting a seatrout. seen the fire lit up were yous fish on the way up the coast, thought it was maybe yous !! the wind fairly kicked up later on.

excellent session there lads well done, a fair impression of a trawler best a luck fishin in greystones

Well done lads, great report, looking forward to seeing you in Greystones next week (though by the sounds of it ,I should be heading up your way ). Lets hope we get a few fish .

Well done guys. The seatrout are about Looks like a very active session. Bet ye can't wait to get back at em

i was thinking that myself seems there is a lot of sea trout around the whole island the last few days from the last few reports. now all i gotta do is catch one

Nice fishing again lads, plenty of fish there. Well done Dawsey with the seatrout. Good news that the flounder being caught in good numbers, might start to pick up a few in daylight now fingers crossed.

tell me about it rab seems you need to be a vampire during the winter to catch a fish

Fair play many people would have called it a day after having to turn back for home twice. your deffo putting in the hours so im sure you will be rewarded with a nice sea trout.Hope yis have a good day out in greystones.

cheers man, takes more than a few hiccups to put us off

well done lads, your being well rewarded for the time and effort that you put in.
think you'll have to get your own report section soon, as you spend more time by
the water than a seagull (not that i'm jealous or anything), dont think i'll be out till
next week (man flu again ) so it's good to see the rest of you's out and catching
in good numbers.....

cheers minty. now if i could get a job working around the sea somehow my life would be complete i wonder do any universitys do a guille course

Great report Al was looking forward to this one. Was a cracking wee session 1st trip up the Antrim Coast and let me tell you it won't be the last Those double shots did give us great sport on light gear, good call mate.

lol!! just shows what you can encounter when you get outta the rut of fishing the same mark all the time . you're more than welcome to join us when jordan's off school. we arrive at a mark on the friday, and camp and fish it out to the sunday night. even when we're getting a nap the rods are still left out with the bells attached for fear of missing a fish

happy days lads, good fishin and well done getting a seatrout. seen the fire lit up were yous fish on the way up the coast, thought it was maybe yous !! the wind fairly kicked up later on.

lol!!!!! the wind seemed to appear from nowhere around 10pm it went from flat calm to blowing the tripod over in minutes

excellent session there lads well done, a fair impression of a trawler best a luck fishin in greystones

cheers mate. it will be nice to get out to a new mark with the chance of hooking into something different

Well done lads, great report, looking forward to seeing you in Greystones next week (though by the sounds of it ,I should be heading up your way ). Lets hope we get a few fish .

you and the lads are more than welcome to come up any time and fish with us dave, i'll drop you a pm with my mobile number during the week. we're looking forward to next saturday . i just hope the weather and fish gods will be kind to us

Great fishing lads welldone

Cheers Salty, was a good day all in. Al and wee Jordan definitely showed me the way

Well that sounds like a mighty session, not only the fishing but it was nice of the local choir to turn out for ye too!!

nice fishing lads looks like all the coalies are up the north coz there's none down here

well done, a couple of set backs but with a night like that its worth it.

A couple more flounder after you left al, nothing of any real size. don't be telling jordan that there was a dab and a plaice caught.

Nice one on the trout. A decent flounder to boot. Well done!

cheers lads, roundourway, for gods sake don't be telling jordan about that or he'll have me camped out at that beach until he gets one was it deffo a plaice? we've had some very spotty flounder there but they lacked the lumps around the eyes that tells them apart from a plaice

cheers lads, roundourway, for gods sake don't be telling jordan about that or he'll have me camped out at that beach until he gets one was it deffo a plaice? we've had some very spotty flounder there but they lacked the lumps around the eyes that tells them apart from a plaice

yep smooth in both directions and everything , The red dots spelt out plaice

defo a plaice then who was the lucky duck who got him?