dollymount, killiney, 07,11,08

People: myself, shamoo, then al and eric

Duration: 2hrs dollymount, 3hrs killiney

Tide: from the top down

Weather: windy but sheltered dollymount, squally and wet in killiney

Bait: at my usual mack only routine, lads were mixing it about

Rigs: 3 hook flapper, 3/0 clipped pennell

Results: 1 whiting dollymount, coalie and flounder killiney, lads also got silver eel, flounder, coalie, dog, flounder, rockling in killiney

Report: knew the weather was going to be bad so wanted a place with shelter - dollymount bathing shelters were to do the trick

the smell of stale piss and rotten fish was sublime - nothing doing first hour - then twice hooks were robbed thought it was crabs - last cast as we decided to go - threw up a pin whiting - won the first round pool!

had ground baited the spots with 4 mack heads and guts - so at least it brought something in - small mercies

onto killiney after picking up al - first cast cracked off - never put over the bail arm - was distracted by 4-5 geniuses in the carpark launching fireworks in our direction

then snagged on second cast - lost the rig again ! = the flapper was out already and when i eventually got it back in a tiny flounder (that was the first flounder pool) and coalie were on

and that was it for me - stood there for another 2.5hrs in the rain and wind to no avail - al in fairness got a good coalie and a dog - again in the first hour

marks good ol friend the silver eel showed (largest fish, credit where its due!)- he always gets them and also a flounder and another coalie

eric showed after and got a rockling - and had the sense to head off again after an hour and a half - but the fishing really died after the first hour

some of the waves were massive - 2 metres - luckily didnt get too wet but was glad to get out of it

poor al was saturated

got to love the winter fishing

What a lovely session, I had the sense not to fish Dollymount myself just waited for the lads to move on until they went somewhere else!

Didn't wear my waders as the leg is soaked so put on a lovely pair of waterproofs with a huge hole in them which left me pretty wet to say the least Looked like it was gonna be a good session when we got to Killiney with fish being caught from the start, The sea was pretty rough so i tried big crab baits to see if the weather had brought any codling in but crab came back untouched, Next cast put Half a mac on a pully pennell and brough in a coalie at 36cm not bad for Killiney, Nothing coming to the big baits after that so stuck out a flapper with size 4's and long snoods in the hope of a few coalies but ended up catching a Dogfish which i suprised at as it was pretty rough. Went pretty much dead for me after that and just sat it out til it was time to go home