wicklow pier, not the light house one, 12-10-08

People:me and fishface

Duration:6-30pm-9-30pm

Tide:high at 8pm,i think

Weather:dd southerly breeze, mild,

Bait:mack lug,squid
dd
Rigs:flappers

Results:whiting, dabs




ReportLocal knowledge (fishface ) told me that this pier was fishing better than the lighthouse one with plenty of decent whiting showing. I arrived at 6-30pm and set up near a father and son combo who had been there all day. My arrival coincided with the arrival of whiting and the young lad was pulling them in as i set up. They stayed about 45mins from the time i arrived with the young lad getting 9 nice sized whiting . Waiting for Neil, i set up the small rod and picked up a couple of small whiting just off the edge of the pier. When Neil arrived we set up near a bench and cast out. We were immediately getting bites and Neil was soon getting doubles. It was great to have a session where the rod tip was nodding all night keeping us busy. Just when i remarked that it was going a bit quiet Neil got a rattle ,,"I'll leave it out and pick up a treble" he said ."Yeah,,sure ",says I,,,,,but he wasnt joking and when he reeled it in sure enough there was 2 whiting and a dab on the bottom snood for good measure . I had a two hook flapper and tried the same trick,,,,got a rattle and left it for the second hook up but instead of getting a double the first one slipped the hook and got off . What can you do,,,thats the chance you take,,,it was great to be getting the chance to try these methods. We measured a nice sized whiting at 30 cms and there were more of that size . I was happy enough when i got a couple of doubles ,including a dab .We must have caught at least 30 between us ( ok Neil,,,,you shaded it ) including some dabs. All in all a very enjoyable nights fishing and well worth the drive down. Hard to believe its October already but hopefully i'll get a few more nights like this before the end off the year.(hopefully more than a few )

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any amount of them whiting around this time of the year now eyes nice to be catching all the same . we used to get some nice plaice off that pier years ago but there are plenty of dabs around too well done .

any amount of them whiting around this time of the year now eyes nice to be catching all the same . we used to get some nice plaice off that pier years ago but there are plenty of dabs around too well done .

THANKS KEITZER , THEYRE A SIGN OF THE WINTER COMING I SUPPOSE, I'M NOT TOO FUSSY ,GLAD OF ANYTHING THATS OUT THERE .IM GETTING TO KNOW EVERY STRETCH OF THAT ROAD DOWN TO WICKLOW

Well done Dave,
Good to have the rods kept busy like that, you got some good size ones there. Whiting seem to be much more plentiful on the east coast than down here in the south - last winter I only managed a handful and all of those were very small. Although maybe I wasn't fishing the right marks for whiting. But hopefully the cod will be showing up soon

Well done Dave,
Good to have the rods kept busy like that, you got some good size ones there. Whiting seem to be much more plentiful on the east coast than down here in the south - last winter I only managed a handful and all of those were very small. Although maybe I wasn't fishing the right marks for whiting. But hopefully the cod will be showing up soon

Whiting sure are plentiful here during the winter . I'm looking forward to some cod this year rockhunter, that one i caught in bray harbour on Sat ( 6 INCHES ) is my personal best,,,,,,and only ,,,one of the year.

Nice busy session lads good cod bait is pin whiting perferably live, accounted for my best cod to date