Clones, North Wexford, 19th June 2008

People: Me and Codswollop

Duration: 18:00 until 23:59

Tide: High at approximately 23:45

Weather: Moderate westerly. Dry. Mild.

Bait: Fresh peeler

Rigs: single hook pulley with size 3/0 hook. 5 oz. weight.

Results: 1 common smoothhound, 1 starry smoothhound and numerous dogfish.




Report: At last we both hooked our first decent smoothhounds. Both fish weighed 6lb. The common was taken in daylight near low tide. The starry was taken at dusk closer to high tide. Delighted!!

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2 fine fish there lads,

Did they give ye much of a scrap?

Well done.

good result man be heading down to night

The best of luck Samo.

In relation to the fight - I thought it would have been a bit better. However it was a bit breezy and there were some fairly significant waves breaking against the shore. We also had relatively heavy tackle. All of these things I believe effect the quality of the scrap in some small way.

It was still a massive thrill grabbing the fish by the tail as it makes a surge under the surf towards you!

John D.

Well done ,i'm delighted for you both :wink: . Decent size too, i've only seen small ones so far (being caught by others :cry: :cry: ).

well done lads, :) 8) glad ye got em :D :D 8)

Come on JD, even the small ones let you know they are there, I love the feel of a hound on the other end. I fished on Monday in windy conditions with 6 oz grappler and they still put up a good fight.

Good stuff guys.

Well done John, I'd say you were dancing a jig when you landed that fish :D

Target fish caught, great fishing lads :wink:

I cant see the pic's thought :(