Ballybunion, Co Kerry - 6th July

People:myself & my son (Conor)

Duration:5 hours

Tide:incoming

Weather:sunny & breezy

Bait:lugworm

Rigs:one hook paternoster

Results:6 bass (best 5lb) + 1 flounder

Catch and Release:: Yes/No



Report:New to the forum. Fished the rising tide on the beach at the back of the golf course. Got the 5lb bass on first cast which promised a good session. Lost another big fish on the retrieve on my third cast. Four of the other bass were schoolies with the last one being a 2 pounder. Finished with a plump flounder of a pound and a half. Nice clean beach with good surf and amazingly was weed free despite the week of storms. Has restored my faith in angling after many sessions on the Wicklow beaches catching undersized fish and tonnes of weed!

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hey dont be slaggin wicklow weed it can fight better than a doggie if the tide is pulling :lol: :lol: have seen many an angler looking bewilderd when they realize they dont have a fish only a 4kg lump of weed :lol: :lol:

nice bass by the way :!: :D

fairplay on the bass mate,just wondering was it the main beach you fished or the estuary beside the golf course?

Thanks. We fished the beach directly behind the clubhouse. There is a right of way straight through, directly over the dunes and fairways. You can park in the overflow carpark to the left of the main entrance. Spoke to a couple of locals who said the estuary was virtually unfishable because of the weed, but as we were about a kilometre from this it didn't hamper us. I've attached a shot of the flouder we got late on in the evening - again a local angler told me some really nice ones have been caught lately.

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Great pics mate - the wee lad's face is a picture :D

Jude

Nice fish mate! Welcome to the site...

That's a great photographic trick too - getting the young fella to hold the fish so it looks bigger cos he's so small! :wink: :lol: :lol:
(joke!!)