People: me jordan and dawsey
Duration: 5pm to 11pm
Tide: rising to high
Weather: calm, no wind and more importantly no rain
Bait: lug, mack and cooked peeled prawn
Rigs: floats and 2 hook flapper
Results: me: 4 poor cod, 6 coalfish up to 1.8lbs, 12 pollock, 4 corkwing wrasse, 9 ballen wrasse up to 2.7lbs and what i think was a baby mullet
jordan: 1 ballen wrasse, 2 shannys, 1 mackeral, 13 pollock and a coalfish
dawsey: 1 coalfish, 2 mack and about 18 pollock
Report: we had arranged to meet up with dawsey for a session at the dee, and boy it did'nt dissappoint :D :D :D . me and junior started off at bangor around 1pm for a bit of mack collection for bait. so on went the feathers and 4 mack were landed by 3pm. we headed out to dig some lug for the evening session and arrived and got set for 5pm. jordan opted for the float and i fished the bottom with a 2 hook flapper loaded with lug. the bait had barely reached the bottom and the rod tip was bouncing...... fish on!!!!!. a male corkwing wrasse broke the surface and we were off to a good start. another quickly followed :lol: :lol: :lol: . then it was the turn of the ballen wrasse taken on the same bait. some nice wee guys of varying colours. while i was baiting up jordans hook he screamed at me that i had a fish on. i turned round to see my beach caster bouncing along the rail :shock: . i grabbed it and struck into it hard feeling that this was a good one :D :D :D and a big ballen came up to greet us :D :D :D i got him landed, photographed him and got him on the scales. RESULT!!!!!!!! 2lb 7ozs my biggest to date. jordan was looking a bit miffed as he had'nt had a bite yet but the light was beginning to fade and he was sure the pollock were gonna come in on the feed soon :evil:
Dawsey arrived and got set up on the float to get in on the action. the pollock had began to feed in numbers and they were happily munching the mack and prawn dangling on the end of his and jordans hooks. bites were coming thick and fast. i was still fishing on the bottom with prawn now as the lug were all gone. i got another solid hit and i was into a nice coalfish weighing in at 1lb 6oz, just 1 oz off my personal best :evil: but 2 casts later i beat it with a coalfish weighing in at 1lb 8oz :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: another new personal best :P by this stage the surface of the water was alive with fry skimming the surface obviously being hunted by the pollock and mackeral that everyone around us were catching. a guy got a full house of mack behind us and the lad who was fishing on the wall above me got some nice pollock up to near 2lb on feathers.
jordan and dawsey also got mack on the float while i was into the poor cod on the bottom. then around 10pm the fry dissappeared back out to sea and the bites slowed down. i never got a touch for half an hour or so and began to wrap up. i put a float out and got what i think was a baby mullet. i'm sure someone on the site will know what is, so if you do would you please post to let us know :D
by now it was 11pm and time to wrap it up. i'm glad dawsey came down tonight as yesterday was really slow by tonights standards and the local anglers remarked that the dee had'nt fished this well in a long time. still nice to see it was treating us well and great to meet up with a member of the site for a session. and the icing on the cake was 2 new personal bests for me 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) i can't wait to get out again on friday night to dip a line :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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