Killiney Beach-Co dublin

People:Me

Duration:6pm to 11pm

Tide:I m not sure

Weather:good

Bait:sand eel,squid and mackerel

Rigs:3 hooks flapper

Results:coalies,codling,whiting and a flat fish

Catch and Release:: Yes



Report:things were starting bad, each cast I get snag...So I was a little bit disappointed... Suddenly, my saver arrived it was Eric...He nicely take me to were he was fishing, and from there, I have started to catch fishes without loosing all my hard earned cash in tackle. Thanks!!!!

no problem, did you get any decent sized fish in the end 8)

Aurelian, I think I bumped into you as I was going that night. Had possibly the most frustrating session ever. Got 6 fish and only managed to land 2! All I can think is that the snags were wearing my shock leaders, as I had 4 or 5 break-offs in the surf. Only landed 2 pollock of about a pound each.

most of the snags are new to the beach, where the carpark is there used to be clean ground with a nice steepish slope, now thanks to our makie basher's shocklearderless casts with a ten ounce lead and my own dodgy crack offs hefts have begun form.

hefts consist of a ball of line,rigs and leads, of course somewhere down the line weed begins to grow and before you know it you have a reef, the place is full with small wrasse and mini species this in turn attracts small cod,pollock,bass etc. last week i managed to reel in a mass of line with a couple of leads, the trick to getting out of them
is to not use gemini clips as the line can slip through them and not using gripers. steady pressure can break the hefts as the line is often frayed and damaged but most of the time steer clear!!!

Thats mad, i haven fished Killieny in years it was all really clean ground never a snag unless ya vetured towards the tea rooms, mack bashers are a curse no wonder the councils are trying to ban fishing!!!

lots of good anglers started out as mack bashers (not me i started out on the fly and have lowered my standards to take up sea fishing !)everone has to stat somewhear so give the mack bashers a break they just require educatin thats all :wink:

Talking about the ban, I was chatting to Donal Marren the Local Authority Member on Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Council on Saturday. I asked him about the proposed ban. He said that it was to do with rubbish on the beach, but that it won't go ahead. Just thought I'd pass that on.

not me i started out on the fly and have lowered my standards to take up sea fishing

Same as myself Roger :D , although I still do plenty of Fly Fishing.

Kev

not me i started out on the fly and have lowered my standards to take up sea fishing

Same as myself Roger :D , although I still do plenty of Fly Fishing.

Kev

combine them, take your fly rod sea fishing :lol: :lol: i do