west cork beach, 10th Jan 2008

People:me

Duration:1630-2030

Tide:hw@ 1820

Weather:clear with brisk s/sw breeze, eased as it got dark

Bait:fresh lug, frozen razor

Rigs:2/0 pulleys

Results:15 coalies from 23-35cm




Report:

with the break in the bad weather today and the fact that i was beginning to suffer a bad case of cabin fever from not getting out fishing, i dug an good few lug this morning in the hope that the weather would remain someway fishable. touch wood it did.

i had origionally planned to fish one of my bass beaches but on arrival there was still a very big ground swell and this coupled with the tidal run on said beach created conditions which were unfishable. plan b was hatched which involved spin around the coast to another beach which i hadnt fished in 18months but holds the odd bass.

i set up in daylight and fished with 2 rods, both with lug and razor cocktails. bites were slow until the sun set.from then on it was as good as a bite a cast.ended up with 15 coalies and unfortunately no bass but after the weather we've had in the past few weeks it was just a pleasure to get out.

Nice to get a few coalies, seems to be plenty of them on the shore this year.

Nice one Neil... Some decent size coalies there as well.

Kev

Nice fishing there lumpy...

cheers lads, ya i was happy with the size of them kev, i reckon that on the beaces i fish the average size of coalies is up this year, used to be around the 20cm mark down here but seems to be closer to 26/27cm now..