Donaghadee Co. Down tue 13th jan 09

any bookies on the site.I wonder what odds you'd get for a mac this time of the year. brillant session but i think you need to cut back your reports your making the rest of us jealous .

Hats off to you Al,,,,that was some session. Great mix of species too. Get the neoprene gloves,,,i did and they make a difference .I'm dying of the flu now but at least my hands are warm as toast . Keep up the good work 8pm-4am,,,, we're a mad bunch alright

what ever you do, dont cut back the reports there brilliant and great fishing lads

Al reports are always super, keep him up Fresh Mack is hard to beat, bet ya didnt dream of it in JAN!

Super stuff lads very envious indeed

Nice fishing there lads.

I caught a mackeral in Killybegs on my first session of 2008. Snow all round me!! Froze my ass of for 3 more hours and caught nothing else

nice session there Al would have been great to have met up with you, but i
have no chance of getting out mid-week, the alarm goes off at 6.30 for work
i'll be at the comp on sunday so i'll give you a buzz in case your heading out
the following weekend.

Hey it's "the other guy" was good you meet you mate. That mackeral was a very odd catch, then again it could've been frozen Just kiddin. Good session anyway, maybe see ya down there again sometime.

good to meet you mate, how did you finish in the end?. i saw you get a couple. after you left i chucked my rod out to the spot you were fishing at and got a couple of good hits, but i could'nt hook into em

any bookies on the site.I wonder what odds you'd get for a mac this time of the year. brillant session but i think you need to cut back your reports your making the rest of us jealous .

lol!! it's not that we're expert anglers or anything, i just play the odds. law of average dictates the more sessions you get in, the more fish you'll encounter. and we get in as many sessions as possible

Hats off to you Al,,,,that was some session. Great mix of species too. Get the neoprene gloves,,,i did and they make a difference .I'm dying of the flu now but at least my hands are warm as toast . Keep up the good work 8pm-4am,,,, we're a mad bunch alright

you know us dave, we're a fool hardy bunch, or is it a bunch of hardy fools

I think it's probably the later of the 2 mate The gloves and the hand warmers are definately the way to go this time of year I'd say.

what ever you do, dont cut back the reports there brilliant and great fishing lads

no probs man. i only post a report for about 1 outta every 3 sessions anyway, otherwise i'd spend too much time in front of the computer and not enough time out fishing

Super stuff lads very envious indeed

the variety of fish to be caught at this mark is great. the only problem is that it makes it hard to draw yourself away to other marks that don't fish so well. but it's like everything in life, if you don't try i supose you'll never know

Nice fishing there lads.
I caught a mackeral in Killybegs on my first session of 2008. Snow all round me!! Froze my ass of for 3 more hours and caught nothing else

it's a bit mad, the seas and seasons all seem to be mixing togeather so that it appears there is no order, i noticed on christmas eve that all the tulips and daffodils in my garden were sprouting through the soil it's friggin christmas, not spring

nice session there Al would have been great to have met up with you, but i
have no chance of getting out mid-week, the alarm goes off at 6.30 for work
i'll be at the comp on sunday so i'll give you a buzz in case your heading out
the following weekend.

no problem minty, i'll send you a pm during the week to let you know what we're gonna be up to at the weekend.

Only managed that tiny poor cod and the rockling, can't complain I was getting good hits off the back as well but couldn't hook up, spend more time towing in rafts of seaweed

plenty of that sea weed out the back of the peir, but in summer on macky traces you get some of the better pollack and coalies, some codling and plenty of mackerel inside (2wards the north peir) there are loads of pouting, coalies and pollack and a good few rockling, some codling and wrasse in summer

great fishin as always al, the dee never fails to produce the goods for yous boys!!! and a mackeral, shas early

Only managed that tiny poor cod and the rockling, can't complain I was getting good hits off the back as well but couldn't hook up, spend more time towing in rafts of seaweed

unfortunatly all the decent fish are in the kelp beds mulling around , it's a double edged sword. if you want to present the bait to em you gotta get your gear deep in the kelp to where they are but the tackle loss is a bit more bareable so long as you get the odd good fish

plenty of that sea weed out the back of the peir, but in summer on macky traces you get some of the better pollack and coalies, some codling and plenty of mackerel inside (2wards the north peir) there are loads of pouting, coalies and pollack and a good few rockling, some codling and wrasse in summer

i see you've been reading our past reports

great fishin as always al, the dee never fails to produce the goods for yous boys!!! and a mackeral, shas early

i'm still not sure what to make of getting a mack this early, if the water is mild enough for them to remain as a resident shoal i don't know what it will spell for the usual easter run of them . will it be early?, late? or broken up all year round i think it will only be a matter of time before trigger fish, red mullet and sea bream become usual visitors to our shores in the north BRING ON THE TARPON!!!

a fella i know got a triggerfish in a lobster pot, thought he was mistakening it for something else, saw a picture definitely a trigger, very rare ehh.

good fishing thats an early mackerel

great session lads you put the hours in and deserve the results. as for the mack were still getting a few on the boat but as the water temp continues to drop they will disappear.