various marks, dingle-tralee 16/17th july co kerry

People: myself and hugh cronin, vipers(t)d

Duration:long time

Tide:all

Weather: mostly overcast

Bait: lug, mac, sandeel, hardback

Rigs:floats pulley flappers

Results: 1 flounder, 1 dogfish, 1 pollack, 1 ballan, 1 corkwing

Report: not much to report only had planned this for a while and it didnt seem to matter at all in terms of results

first mark, on my tod, west of tralee was meant to get loads of ray - got a 28cm flounder after an hour on lug mack flapper

crabs were healthy had a spider

then i think i had a cuttlefish but he hit a rock on the way up - and dropped off - just remember the large eye looking at me

then that was it for 5 hours

then beach casting from midnight with the 2 lads later - viper got a bass second cast and hugh got one on the first

i missed 3 bites in a row and then got a dog well out that fought well - was sure it was a ray

things went quiet for myself and viper - as hugh got another bass a flounder and 3 pouting

me some very chatty people from the north there at 3am

stayed on til about 4.30-5 am but no joy

then to a bridge mark for "bass like mackies" - after 3 hours and the turn of the tide - it was time for bed at 8 am

guess i was bringing my infamous blank technique for bass down the country

about 2pm went and got hardbacks - down to a rock mark " big wrasse chance of triggers"

put out a few kilos of chum

nothing doing over the fill and turn of the tide - were heading soon

had a few rotten bottom rigs out think had a few conger bites - but no heavier traces so lost on striking in - gave that up

had a discarded plastic bottle fishing mack strip - a tiny pollack hooked himself - blank saved small mercies

were still going - but decided to change to lug on the float at 20ft - got a corkwing

then more lug and pulled in the fish of the 2 days a large ballan +40cms

happy out

then hugh got one a bit smaller on crab

chap and his kids turned up so we ran away

had a chippy and then a pint to wash it down

the planned evening session soon was forgotten for another type of one

kicked someones arse at darts and pool :lol:

truly showing a wasted youth

pity about the results but good craic

Welldone Brian on the decent sized Ballan, you need to get the photo up.

Bad luck on not getting a better return for the time you put in, seems the east coast is the way to go :wink:

Have you ever used fresh sandeel???

I was up with my bait man collecting my fresh peeler this morning and he had some in, thought I'd give 'em a go, I asked for a tenners worth and he gave me approx 35-40 eels....excellent value....

I'll not be needing that many for the weekend, so i presume I can wrap some up and freeze 'em ?!

wrap them up away - that was decent value

once had a flounder on a live sandeel - and tried one the other night in kiliney - remember!

the pic cant go up for technical reasons im afraid... :lol:

that bout some's it up alright corby boy-cracking fishing-dire results.
I'm blaming the viper std for all troubles!

you just get your arse up this way and we get a right fish 8)