east cork beach19nov08
Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:42 am
People:myself
Duration:6 til 10
Tide:9ish
Weather:blustery nw but pleasant and MILD
Bait:lug mackeral razor
dd
Rigs:1/0 2 hook paternoster and 2 2 hook wishbone
Results:1 flounder,2 dogs and 22aprox whitting
Report:Had been hoping to go plugging but the water was too coloured so dug a few lug and hit the beach with the spin rod and bass rod as it was not bassy looking and i did'nt think the codling were about judging by the lack of reported fish down this way,so it was whitting bashing
.Things started slowly with just a small flounder before dark quickly followed by 2 doggieson the spin rod[with bait and 2oz lead],great fun.
Once the tide peaked the whitting started to feed very hard,the usual pins at the beginning but then as i tipped the lug with mackeral some big boys showed very close 2o to 30 yds.I ended up keeping 10 as afavour for aneighbour these fish measured in all around 40cm and i even got some clonkers upto 46cm which were huge in comparison to the usual 6cm pins.
All in all a nice night with some decent fishing and i would def recommend people to size down there gear and have a bit of fun with the current influx of whitting around some of the bites were mental if only my standard rods had the same huge fish look about them when they would get a bite.
Tight lines
Duration:6 til 10
Tide:9ish
Weather:blustery nw but pleasant and MILD
Bait:lug mackeral razor
dd
Rigs:1/0 2 hook paternoster and 2 2 hook wishbone
Results:1 flounder,2 dogs and 22aprox whitting
Report:Had been hoping to go plugging but the water was too coloured so dug a few lug and hit the beach with the spin rod and bass rod as it was not bassy looking and i did'nt think the codling were about judging by the lack of reported fish down this way,so it was whitting bashing
.Things started slowly with just a small flounder before dark quickly followed by 2 doggieson the spin rod[with bait and 2oz lead],great fun.Once the tide peaked the whitting started to feed very hard,the usual pins at the beginning but then as i tipped the lug with mackeral some big boys showed very close 2o to 30 yds.I ended up keeping 10 as afavour for aneighbour these fish measured in all around 40cm and i even got some clonkers upto 46cm which were huge in comparison to the usual 6cm pins.
All in all a nice night with some decent fishing and i would def recommend people to size down there gear and have a bit of fun with the current influx of whitting around some of the bites were mental if only my standard rods had the same huge fish look about them when they would get a bite.
Tight lines
Re: east cork beach19nov08
Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:08 am
marlinman wrote:these fish measured in all around 40cm and i even got some clonkers upto 46cm
Well done - 46 cm whiting
those sound like they are specimen size.If there are whiting of that size about I must have a go at targeting them myself.
Re: east cork beach19nov08
Wed Nov 19, 2008 1:27 pm
You got a PM there Marlinman....
Re: east cork beach19nov08
Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:16 pm
Hi Rockhunter,
yes it was a good trip for a change with some lovely whitting,hopefully they will stay about for a while longer,but still would give it all up for decent bass preferably 15lb or even a 10lb cod but im not fussy so these whitting will do just fine.
Tight lines.
yes it was a good trip for a change with some lovely whitting,hopefully they will stay about for a while longer,but still would give it all up for decent bass preferably 15lb or even a 10lb cod but im not fussy so these whitting will do just fine.
Tight lines.
Re: east cork beach19nov08
Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:51 pm
Great fishin there man. Hopin to try for bass tomorrow nite but if nothin is doin I might head over to ferrypoint coz a mate was tellin me he is gettin heaps of whitin over there and some of them are also of a good size.