North Beach, Greystones, 13-10-08

great report mate, A pleasure reading it. you seem to be getting plenty of the bass now fella well done

dfella, the best spot around that area were your almost guaranteed a good few fish is the rocks to the right (or left) of the small cove/beach. If you have a drive out to greystones harbour you'll see the rocks easy enough

Fish a 3 hook flapper anywhere from 80 yards right in close, fish with mack, squid, rag, lug, maybe try a single hook rig at distance aswell.

You can expect dabs, flounder, plaice, coalies, pollock, whiting, dogs....and maybe the odd suprise bass

pm me your number if you want a bit of help, I might be able to drop down for a few hours fishing myself, so could show you the marks a bit easier.

Mark

Went to north beach last wed and they were taking down that old bridge, so decided to walk up a bit and try get down to the beach, after walking a mile up gave up and turned back ended up going to south beach.
. i find the best bait for all of greystones is mussel have had some great fish on it.

ps any tips on where you got down on to the beach?

basiclally walked all the way down the fenced off official walkway to the beach at the start a big massive U shaped walk around machinery and materials - but on the way back got under the fence right beside the old road to the carpark - which is now cordoned off for working vehicles

walk down that road towards the town - and you can see where the public road access ends - once again under the fence and your litterally 2 mins from where that chippy is/was near the seafront at the harbour

40 mins down - 5 mins back

thanks, i have been fishing that beach for a few weeks now its great but it always seems to go dead an hour before full tide. Really pi~~ed me off last time to find they took the bridge out of it.

Marble, have you fished the beach on the ebb at all?

ebb??

was wondering what they are building further north on the beach - with large concrete blocks going from the field into the sea - if its a groyne its bound to change the lie of the beach and make it a bit shallower on one side

From what I understand pretty much the whole beach will be effectivly gone, they're building all along it and out to sea. Hopefuly somebody will correct me but I think that's the case

Cheers for that Shambo fair play. I was using two hook flappers with rag tipped with mack. And I had a couple of crabs left so I stuck them out on a pennel with my smaller rod closer in to the shore.

Not sure how I'm fixed with work for a couple of weeks but intend on heading back back down so I'll drop you a PM.

DF

was wondering what they are building further north on the beach - with large concrete blocks going from the field into the sea - if its a groyne its bound to change the lie of the beach and make it a bit shallower on one side

From what I understand pretty much the whole beach will be effectivly gone, they're building all along it and out to sea. Hopefuly somebody will correct me but I think that's the case

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/89335

any amount of analysis on the situation here - usual craic - a proposed national heritage area - not worth the paper its written on

ebb??

Marble,

Have you fished it from high water down? i.e tide going out, not coming in