portrush rock mark tue 6th jan 09

People: just me

Duration: 7am-3pm

Tide: dropping to high

Weather: dry, no wind but freezing, car temp read -3

Bait: sand eel, squid and mackeral

Rigs: 3/0 pennel for dogs, conger trace, one up one down, float rig (one hook drop 15ft) and size 4 hook flowing trace for flatties and rockling.

Results: blankety blank cheque book and pen




Report: i've been watching the weather and swell forecasts for the last few weeks,waiting for favourable conditions to fish ramore head, and today was the day so the alarm was set for 4.30am so i could get up to portrush and be fishing for first light. when i arrived at the mark it was still dark and to my horror the rocks were all coated in a layer of ice (not frost). so i sat on the path and had a coffee until some light started to break and i could see what i was at i could'nt fish my intended spot as the rocks slope off towards the sea and you would have slipped straight off the edge and i did'nt bring my bathing cozzie so another spot was found with a nice flat surface, so if i did slip i would only fall on my bum and not into the sea. what ensued was the session from hell. i had 3 rods out trying all tactics and did'nt get even one bite other than from the cold i must have lost 7 traces and multiple leads on the rough ground. and by 3pm i admited defeat and packed up as the light began to fade. the ice on the rocks never melted, so to fish here in the darkness on my own would have been suicide. it seems that no where seems to be fishing during daylight hours at the moment . which is a pity as i feel that this mark would have fished it's socks off during the night. but like i say you would need to be mental to try it. i like to catch the fishes, i don't want to swim with em but.

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Good job for getting out and trying, i was out in bangor the other nite and even the peir was slippy as hell

Unlucky with the blank al ,better luck next time ,It can be a hard ol spot to fish this time of year ,though it's normally the swell that puts you of the mark rather than ice

Hard lines Al can't remember the last time one of your reports didn't have mulitple species in it Well your luck will definately be in next time i'm sure ... tight lines

unlucky fella, it does like really cold in those pictures mate.

we are heading out next weeknd if your up for it

cheers lads for all the replies. it was dodgey as hell fishing there in the ice. thats not a puddle in the first pic by the way, it's frozen solid . we would be well up for that, where are you thinking of fishing. we're going to waterfoot on friday night for a bit of flattie bashing

Unlucky mate, happen's from time to time. Have to make up for it at the weekend

always good to get out fishing, doesnt mater about blanking or not, just as long as you dont blank too many times.

cheers dan and dawsey, it just goes to show blanking can happen to even the best of us aw.., who am i kidding. our fishing usually consists of 10% skill and 90% luck

Fair play. I can't believe you lasted so long in that cold. I'd certainly have packed it in a lot sooner than you did.

At least you tried. Bet that coffee tasted good though

He does make a good cuppa, he shares

Results[/b]: blankety blank cheque book and pen

when jordan woke up an seen that you went fishing with out him, he put the blite on you
only jokeing al' fare play for sticking it out in them conditions, i'm sure you will make up for it on your next trip out.

Fair play. I can't believe you lasted so long in that cold. I'd certainly have packed it in a lot sooner than you did.

well, i always talk myself into the way of thinking that if i pack up when things get tough i'll never know what i might have missed that usually keeps me hanging on in there for another couple of hours by the way, welcome to the site man

At least you tried. Bet that coffee tasted good though

the coffee at the mark was ok. but the one i had when i got home loaded with powers was even better so much so that i had a couple more

Results[/b]: blankety blank cheque book and pen

when jordan woke up an seen that you went fishing with out him, he put the blite on you
only jokeing al' fare play for sticking it out in them conditions, i'm sure you will make up for it on your next trip out.

he must have jinxed my rods before i went to bed in protest of me getting to fish while he was in school if he had of been there he could have done the fish dance and i'm sure we'd have got loads

Not so sure about the fish dance in those conditions, prob wuda been dancin with the fish after slippin off the rock when you out next Al, tomorrow??

:mrgreen: Not so sure about the fish dance in those conditions, prob wuda been dancin with the fish after slippin off the rock when you out next Al, tomorrow??

yeah man, up to waterfoot for 5pm tomorrow. we'll proably fish to midnight or whenever we run outta bait . i fished bangor and donaghadee today just picking up tiddlers but i did get my first whiting of 2009

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fished portrush on Wednesday, blue pool and the harbour wall. it was similar to yourself a big fat BLANK

i know ady, fishing during daylight hours seems to be a dead loss everywhere at the moment we'll all just have to become night owls ya can swim fishies, but ya can't hide

Was there many of these tidlers about at Bangor Al. What about Dee did you get anything during the day?