ballycastle beach 07/07/07

Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:54 am

People:me and sam

Duration:1900/0400

Tide:coming in

Weather:mild flat calm

Bait:fresh mackerel king ragworm

Rigs:3 hook flappers size 2 and 2/0

Results:turbot pollack flounder dogfish sea trout

Catch and Release:: Yes



Report:set off to fish the breakwater but found we couldn't get access not without having to clamber over rocks with heavy seat boxes so we opted to take life easy on the beach.

we used a pair of rods each straight off we hit into dogs that were sniffing out are fresh mack baits sam had 3 i had 11 i also had 7 flounder each 1 gut hooked nightmare 1 pollack around a 1lb 1 small turbot and a 2 and a 1/2 pound sea trout to be fair to sam he did have around an hours sleep most fish were caught on the fresh mackerel.
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Tue Jul 10, 2007 1:57 am

Great posting Alan. :wink:

Also great photo's too. Cracking sea trout, that's a few now I've heard of being caught from the Antrim coast recently.

Ballycastle is starting to come good, we had a club comp there recently and I won it with 1 dog! :shock: That evening was a long 5 hours fishing. :oops:
I must give it a go again soon.

Steve

Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:39 am

nice report and decent fishing :D

Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:50 am

I'd have kept that sea trout. Yum!

Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:04 pm

hi alan,
good session
i fish ballycastle but i'm new to sea fishing, what part of the beach where you at and how far do you normally cast/

ady

Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:05 pm

hi alan,
good session
i fish ballycastle but i'm new to sea fishing, what part of the beach where you at and how far do you normally cast/

ady

Thu Jul 12, 2007 8:35 am

ady wrote:hi alan,
good session
i fish ballycastle but i'm new to sea fishing, what part of the beach where you at and how far do you normally cast/

ady
you don't need any distance 50 or 60 yards will do we were fishing to the right hand side of the rock at the beach.