Sorrento (Nudey Beach) Dublin 18/02/08

People: Just me

Duration:half2 till 4

Tide: ?? full out

Weather: nice hazy sunshine

Bait: fly's Shrimps and general baitfish patterns

Results: 1 sea scorpion.




Report: Spent a while thrashing away on the water with not much showing had one tiny pollack swim beside the fly. Put on a small glister shrimp and went to the rock pools there is one big one made into a bathing pool and put a few casts in there and twitched the fly around got him among some kelp. There were loads of rock gobies but the hook was to big for them.
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mad stuff, well done for thinking outside the box

Ye was walking past the pool and saw a load of fish scatter to just tried in there to save a blank :D :shock: :D .

Well done, nice photos :wink:

Glad you saved the blank! Done 2 hours friday night and 3 hours sat afternoon on the fly with only 14 flies lost in the kelp to report! :( :shock: :(

Sorry Al, that was my message.

Ouch I lost about 5 flies and broke 2 hooks on the backcast hitting the rocks :evil:

Quality, that's the first time I've heard of a scorpion on a fly. I popped down to Hawkcliff this morning but I gave up fairly shortly due to the extremely poor visibility in the water. Decided then to take a walk down the beach to were the two small riverlets run into the sea. I fished shrimp patterns along the bottom using the current from the stream to push the fly out from shore and along the bottom. No results but sure it was worth a try and nice morning to be out. Heading to Castlebar on Wednesday for a couple of days of fly fishing for pike, so hopefully I will have better luck.

The waters been a bit cloudy for a while, either that or there has been loads of weed in it. Have a good trip.

The waters been a bit cloudy for a while, either that or there has been loads of weed in it. Have a good trip.