Garryvoe, Co Cork, 02/11/2008

People: me and Nik

Duration: 17:00 - 21:30

Tide: HW about 19:30

Weather: clear and cold

Bait: razor,mackerel, sandeel

Rigs: single hook clip downs, three hook flappers

Results: Nik - 1 Coalie, me - 6 coalies to 38cm




Report: Decided to give Garryvoe another go as we could bring the wives and kids for a walk on the beach before packing them off to the hotel for warmth and food before they headed home.
I was having a nightmare with my distance rod, not sure how many weights and traces I lost due to crackoffs and various other difficulties. At one point some big fish pulled over my rod stand and managed to get my line caught in some rocks somewhere which promptly snapped when I tightened into it. Refilled my spool, cast out, was hit by another fish which when I tightened up had cunningly untied a couple of my knots leaving my weight and itself behind.
I'm guessing there is a reef of some description out there somewhere as could feel something about halfway in everytime I retrieved and, of course, lost another trace to it along with a fish.

Luckily my close in rod was giving me no problems and as the tide was coming to HW I got into some coalies about 10-15yds out. Smallest 21cm, biggest 38cm. Got one more later on a bit further out (all fish to mack and sandeel)
Nik was fishing big baits at distance, he was getting a few small knocks, which were probably small fish picking at the bait as it was often coming back cleaned. He missed one good bite before whilst helping me refill my spool and had another slack line bite as the tide was falling which turned up nothing before he managed a 20cm coalie on a 6/0.

If you can get snagged on Garryvoe don't try fishing Caliso Bay.

Refilled my spool, cast out, was hit by another fish which when I tightened up had cunningly untied a couple of my knots leaving my weight and itself behind.

I had a few of those - you would wonder how they learnt to untie knots

Nice session nice to see coalies turning up in numbers

Just one particular point where we seemed to get snagged, most of the time it just pulled through like a weed bed or something, but that one time it was stuck fast. I'll give Caliso bay a miss anyway thanks

Not sure I like to see the coalies, means winter is here, but it beats blanking....

If you can avoid the snags Caliso Bay is not a bad venue. It throws up a good variety of different species, I have had much more variety from it over about 5 sessions than I have had from countless sessions on the East Cork beaches (lots of shore rocklings and dogfish as well as five bearded rockling, corkwing wrasse, scorpion fish, coalies, whiting, flounder). Bass are there too just havn't fished it when there has been a good surf. It also seems seems to produce at all stages of the tide so long as there is a bit of a surf rolling in.

Good job have never fished garryvoe, is it any good for bass????