north wexford beach 29/30th august 08

People: myself, shamoo, stevecrow and saltydog

Duration: 20.00 - 02.00

Tide: LT 01.00

Weather: overcast misty, for over an hour it was heavy with everything wet

Bait: fresh mack, lug, rag, frozen sandeel, crab, squid

Rigs: 2 hook flapper, 3 hook flaper, pulley, 1 up 1 down, 1 hook flowing, pennel pulley

Results: 4 bass, 2 smoothies, 6 dogs, 1 flounder, 1 silver eel, 1 whiting

Report: well intended to be fishing round 5pm but the cross country traffic became too much so we had to catch fresh bait off the pier!!

then there was few beers and then food - and finally 3 hours later we got fishing - on first cast mark gets a good smut - 5-6lbs

then steve got one 4-5lbs

then mark was into a bass 3lb

then steve into one slightly bigger - thought it was going to be a contest between the 2

all on the first few casts!!!

on que mark gets a whiting just to keep the heads in check - it goes quiet for an hour and then mark gets a dog and a standard issue silver eel - he hates them - but they love him!!

he then gets a smaller bass - on fire this man!

next i finaly get a flounder - love those flatties

and in the next 15 mins - i got a bass and then 2 dogs

salty eventually got into 3 dogs on his own turf

for the last hour and a bit it then went quiet

so we retired after a few beers and then more tasty food back at the ranch

good session alright, i had the largest bass of 55cm, pity my smut wasnt a bit bigger though, mark sure was on a roll though. plying me with those few cans trying to take me out of the competition , sure i was happy with what i got, not sure about salty and his 3 doggies though..

good session lads imagine how many fish you could have caught if you stayed sober great to hear you hit a few bass any pics sorry i couldnt make it i,m heading out tonight to fish for something just not sure what yet

Nice to see the bass and smuts about
Just remember to leave a few for me - I'll be there on Sun and the competition proper can start

Met up with the lads & brought them to my fav mark. As corbyeire said we intended fishing around the 5 o'clock mark but tractors horse boxes lorries & anything else you could think of put paid to that. Which was a pity as this mark fishes very well for 3hrs before & 2hrs after high tide. Pleased for the lads they all conected with bass with shamoo & steve taking nice smuts. Shamoo outfished us all with 5 species & the most fish welldone Mark I lost a bass in the surf shortly after the lads caught theirs too busy talking checked my rod slack lined reeled in hot him into the surf but there's a ledge in front of where I set up & he got off bummer but thankfully the dogs spared my blushes!! Nice to meet a new face in shamoo I've some pics as does Mark will upload later when we get a chance.

sounds like a great session yous had der lads

great session lads,

nice session lads well done, loved the few cans bit

Pics as promised..... (shamoo has some more to add)

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Not much for me to add really, the lads have it well covered.

Great to meet saltydog and steve for the first time, after reading many of their reports I can now put a face to the names. Many, many thanks to saltydog for the accomodation aswell, saved a lot of hassle pitching tents etc.

Heres a few more pic's though.

Oops....Perhaps I should give my thanks to corbyeire.....as I was stood chatting up the beach, a bite had pulled my tripod over, corbeire gave me a shout, I rushed down, struck and low and behold fish on.... after a short scrap I beached my best smut yet, so cheers corbyeire without you I might not of got him.

BTW Steve doesnt look too happy in the photo with his smut....perhaps its because it was smaller than mine , he aint half competetive that lad...he didnt stop bragging all night about having the biggest bass of the session(notice how he's smiling much more for that photo )

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he didnt stop bragging all night about having the biggest bass of the session(notice how he's smiling much more for that photo )

hey if i caught a pound and a half bass i'd be bragging too

well done lads

Well done lads, some nice fish there . Good man Mark outfishing all those experts Lovely smoothie,,,

Good man Mark outfishing all those experts

Only fishing since March '08, €60 reel, €45 rod and a 90 yard cast, what more can I say

nice one lads, nice pics to, the crow looks like hes modelling smoothhounds