People: Me and Roger
Duration: 11am - 6pm
Tide: high @ 1:30
Weather: dry, windy southerly
Bait: Rag, mussel, fresh mack, Gulp sand eel & shrimp
Rigs: 3 hook & 2 hook flappers. Sabikis
Results: 4 LSD, 25 mackerel, 1 small plaice, 1 small whiting, 1 small codling, 4 Pollock (best one in the pic)
Catch and Release: Everything went back bar 4 small mackerel for bait.
Report: Firstly this is the 1st time I have managed to get out fishing for the best part of a year so I would like to say thank you to everybody who has posted on this site in that time and kept me keen to get back out.
Roger and me headed towards Dalkey and ended up on the rocks down past coliemore. Had some lovely new lures to try out but the wind put paid to using them, so started bait fishing, the tide was incoming and around here the current is very strong your gear either going left or right depending on whether the water is coming in or going out. It was hard to feel bites with the wind, Roger got a doggie and 2 small Pollock within the first hour or so. I decided to try for some mack as I was catching nothing, got 11 in about 30 mins, they were very small so kept four and the rest went back with minimum wet hand handling, I use Sabikis xtreme glo lures so the hook is very small size 14 so easy to shake them off most times also means you loose quite a few....slightly more sporting though, have caught pollock, whiting and small red gurnards on these too.
Some Irish lads out fishing near us and one of them caught what I believe to be a shad on feathers, the best picture I can find of the fish is here
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/shad-GS.jpg . It had large iridescent scales and it's bottom lip protruded slightly further out than the top one and it's dorsal fin was a bit further back than you would expect to find it.
And finally on a slightly sour note a bunch of other people out mackerel bashing who had got roughly 50 to 60 mackerel between them left the place littered with the heads of all the fish they cleaned to bring home....there was a language barrier it is called Ignorance !! One of the others lads came across them after they left...he cleaned them up...fair play to him.
Apologies for the long post, just happy to back in the game
"On Jah solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand"
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