ennerilly 1-6-08

People:me,fishface and john bunn

Duration:6-11pm

Tide:ebb

Weather:cool breeze,died out later, fine

Bait:lug,rag,mack (superquinn),squid

Rigs:various

Results:me, blank :oops: , john, blank :oops: ,,,,,,,,fishface, 1 plaice , 1 smoothound :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: .




Report:Not much to report from me as i blanked. I had too good a day in Greystones on Sat (sorry Shamoo :oops: :oops: ) so i suppose i had to have bad luck sooner or later. Car broke down, used my sons car (well its mine really), had trouble getting mackeral, after all this hassle i should have called it a day but i insisted on travelling down to Ennerilly. Got there about an hour before the lads but i hadnt a touch when they arrived :oops: . In fact i only got one bite all night and missed that. There was a seal patrolling up and down in front of us and i put this down as a bad sign (even though John had a theory that there must be loads of fish to bring him in :roll: ). From 7-10pm not one of us had a bite ,,,,then,,,,,as usual Neil came up with the goods with a nice plaice. Bragging rights to him again :evil: :evil: :lol: . Poor John was desperate to catch and prayed aloud,,,, but in vain,,,,,as he had to travel home with Neil bragging in his ear all the way :lol: :lol: . Some guy was spinning off the rocks ,said he was after bass. I'm not sure whether he was joking but we told him there was a bass ban on . He didnt catch any :lol: :lol: ., but caught mackeral and a sea trout. I called it a day at 10.30 and the two lads stayed a while longer. 10 minutes after i left Neil hooked into a smoothie of doggie proportions so a good night for him and not so good for me and John. Goes to prove that distance casting can pay off as Neil has a terriffic cast ( so he keeps telling us :wink: :wink: )

Had to happen sooner or later Dave, Hard luck :wink:

Had to happen sooner or later Dave, Hard luck :wink:

Already happened a few weeks ago in Bray Harbour Keith but i didnt report it :oops: :oops:. Convinced myself that i wasnt fishing, just practicing my casting (with bait :roll: ).

If that was only your second blank this year then you are doing very well.

I think seals definitely scare off the fish - presumably there were some around to attract the seal but once the seal started hunting them I guess they would clear off rapidly. Last year I fished a particular rock mark a lot in West Cork - it was good provided there were no seals around. Once the seals appeared the fishing dried up.