north beach courtown,30/8/08

People:me and dave

Duration:7.30-10.30

Tide:?

Weather:ddlovely

Bait:rag,peeler,razor,mackerel
dd
Rigs:3 hook flappers,2 hook clipped

Results:dabs, dogs,whiting,mackerel, RAY,mystery fish




Report:lovely day got a call from the mate dave to gofishing , lovely except dave was on a run of 6 blanks, was dubious didnt want to catch whatever bad luck he has as i have a comp on sunday, sorry dave.
headed to courtown anyway picked up fresh rag and hit the north beach,beautiful evenin and was itchin to get stuck in, dave was first away with a small dab chuffed is not the word , he grew 2 feet taller immediatly followed up with 2 mackerel on a 3 hook flapper baited with rag ,now he was enormous, offf with the flapper and straight to my tackle box for feathers and a german sprat (mack basher) dave spun away til well after dark with several more mackerel caught he was on cloud nine.
i had two rods set up one far out one close, first cast on far rod produced a treble, two dogs and a spiny,spikey yoke, it was speckled red, triangular shaped ,small dorsal quarter round lots of spines under the pectoral finsheadin back towards the tail, red tail as well, didnt get a good pic of it but someone will know what it is .
far rod again next cast produced a dab followed by my first RAY woo hooo delighted as ihad lost a ray here 6 weeks ago in the surf thanks to all the lads on the site for their advice on targeting ray) more dabs and dogs followed and a 16 cm whiting on a 3/0 aberdeen loaded with razor(big mouth for a small fish )
had a great evenings fishing , all fish returned to fight another day, except for the half dozen macks dave kept for the supper(greedy bugger) he be ringing everday to go fishing now, six species in 3 hours i be back soon myself

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your mystery fish looks like a gurnard if it had blue pecs it was a tub if not a red...

congrats on your first ray aswel..welcome to the club

Nice time travel

nice fishing lads.

looks like a young grey gurnard to me

nice fishing there legend well done on your first ray too u wouldnt know what courttown will produce had some cracking sessions on it last year.

nice goin der lads

nice fishing there legend well done on your first ray too u wouldnt know what courttown will produce had some cracking sessions on it last year.

dont know why i dont fish it more often, be headin back down some evenin this week for sure if u wanna meet up pm me ur number

Congrat's on your 1st ray

That red, spiky yoke (spiny,spikey yoke, it was speckled red, triangular shaped ,small dorsal quarter round lots of spines under the pectoral finsheadin back towards the tail, red tail as well)......looks like a grey gurnard to me .

Thelegend, i am local to that area if you want to pm me and i may be able to join you

thanks for the replies lads , headin back to same spot tommorow night, hopefully more of the same