bray beach

People:me and 25 other competitors

Duration:2:30-6:30

Tide:high tide at around 3 i think

Weather:breezy and mildish

Bait:razor,mackerel and lugworm

Rigs:3 hook flappers

Results:41 fish, 11 of which where counters, 3 beard rockling,5 beard rockling,whiting, short spined sea scorpion and flounder made up the catch




Report: having never fished bray beach before i wasn't too hopeful of catching anything never mind doing ok :!: started alternating between different snood lengths from the beginning, first cast was a treble rockling, 2, 19cm and 1, 20cm, 'what the...' came to mind!! fair enough can't go wrong here, casting no more than 30 yards i was in to fish after fish, with so few counters appearing i began to get nervous, it was unfortunate i had 5 19cm in the first hour and only 2 counters!!, then i hit a couple of nice whiting over the magic 20.
decided to give distance a shot , trying to get my rig as close to the rivers outpour as possible hoping for a cod or two, i launched my rig as far as i could get it and needless to say i didn't make the 400 or so yard mark needed i landed a couple of undersized whiting on that cast, that was enough to ensure i stayed in close all day. as darkness fell i heard of a few decent flounders being caught so out went a few lug and macks into the suds, straight away i hooked my little flounder and got him measured in at a whopping 22cm.
the last few hours in darkness began a whiting onslaught with at least doubles coming in every cast :shock: finally ended up with 11 counters and 41 fish in total not bad at all.


P.S sorry i didn't get any more pics but i got to busy

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so where did you finish up eric, not a bad catch for a place you have never fished before

Nice one Eric sounds like a good catch for your first time fishing there.

so where did you finish up eric, not a bad catch for a place you have never fished before

i won my zone and think i came first overall but there wasn't a prize for that :shock: :shock:








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Well done to the stella maris sac 3 man team consisting of stewart kealy,gordon darker and ronan doherty who won the event.just thought i'd mention that eric :p :p :p .what was your overall points scored eric :?:

Well done to the stella maris sac 3 man team consisting of stewart kealy,gordon darker and ronan doherty who won the event.just thought i'd mention that eric :p :p :p .what was your overall points scored eric :?:

i did mention them in the comps and clubs section, and yes well done to them again, me and gordan(pegged next to me) had our own little battle going on, i pipped him to the the post on my last two casts, lucky old me :twisted: very nice guy though. i finished up with 305pts

well done eric .

nice report.

I'm a bit surprised you never fished here before :wink:
being a member of bray outcasts.

they used to fish there when they started up.

first overall and NO PRIZE :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

well done eric .

nice report.

I'm a bit surprised you never fished here before :wink:
being a member of bray outcasts.

they used to fish there when they started up.

first overall and NO PRIZE :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

the outcast have gone down the boat angling direction more so than the shore

in other words they are a load of S**T !!!!!! :roll: :roll:

in fairness boycie they have good anglers they just werent good enough on the day :lol:

in fairness boycie they have good anglers they just werent good enough on the day :lol:

we had a zone win and a zone second, our third angler made a mistake signing his card, so we only finished up with two anglers

excuses excuses excuses eric by the way heard stewart kealy scored zone win with 316 points just to let you know :P

excuses excuses excuses eric by the way heard stewart kealy scored zone win with 316 points just to let you know :P

well done to him then, i stand corrected, however i know who has the trophy and il be damned if i tell you :wink: :twisted: :twisted: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: