People: Myself and Corbyeire
Duration: 18.30 - 02.00
Tide:incoming to full
Weather: fine, calm, small swell
Bait: Rag, mack
Rigs: Dalkey: Me - float, Corbyeire - float, 1 hook ledger
Killiney: 3 hook flappers and pulleys
Results: Pollock (15), Ballan Wrasse(4), Corkwing Wrasse(1), Whiting (3), Flounder(4)
Report: Brian's first time at the mark, so gave him a quick heads up about the ground we would be fishing into.
I was fishing a float set up, and Brian had put a 1 hook ledger rig out and was also fishing a float.
I was quickly into a few fish with a pollock being the first, then a nice ballan wrasse of 39cm.
Not to be out done, Brian had a nice ballan wrasse, just a few cm's smaller than mine, then a male corkwing wrasse.
All fish being caught on the floats, however Brian had a decent sized crab on the ledger rig, and was missing the odd bite, then to our suprise had hooked into something, as it got near the surface Brian thought it was a rockling, it turned out to be a wrasse, lovely beige coloured patches on it, and caught over relatively clean ground at around 80/100 yards out
The action was fairly steady in spells, then went quite for the same length of time, then busy again, then quiet again......
I had a decent pollock (my biggest to date :D ) at around 50 yards out on the float, and a few smaller pollock.
With light fading (around 11pm) we decided to pack up and move on to Killiney beach to try for some flatties with the remaining rag.
Interestingly, both the good sized wrasse were taken around 2 yards out, just goes to show you havent got to have a 200yrd cast to catch good fish.
All in all a good session at this mark, and both of us caught the target species.
A quick drive round to killiney beach for session no.2 and we found a decent sized surf crashing onto the beach, and the tide about 2 hours from being full in, so hopes were high for some good flattie action.
Brian was first off the mark with a small flounder, it had plenty of orange spots, so we thought originally it may have been a plaice, but decided on flounder in the end.
I then had a small whiting, then Brian another flounder, then a few more fish each. Brian had all the flounder and I had all the whiting. Oh, I forgot to mention Brian's shore rockling , but I'll let him tell you about that one :roll:
Killiney was a bit quiet really, conditions seemed ideal, and we had both been a little suprised it only threw up 3 whiting and 4 flounder.
Decided to call it a night as the rag had ran out by 2am.
It was an enjoyable nights fishing all the same, and didnt mind staying out the extra few hours beyond daylight.
I hope Brian enjoyed some of these small east coast wrasse :wink:
I'm sure Brian will add anything he thinks I may have missed.
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