Ennereilly, 7-January-2009
Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:59 pm
People: Me, Diego
Duration:7:30 pm -1:00 am approx.
Tide: Turning, falling (http://www.irishtimes.com/weather/tides.html)
Weather: clear skies, cold, flat sea
Bait: lug, mack, squid
Result: whiting, rockling, scorpion fish, other sea creatues
Hit Ennereilly with Diego to use up last of lugworm, etc. We also had mackerel and some squid with us. Ended up with about 30 whiting between us, the biggest was 22 cm, but Diego also hooked a scorpion fish and a rocking. I also managed to haul in a starfish, while Diegeo matched that with a clam...
. Started slowly, but as the tide ebbed more it got fairly steady with the whiting coming in two at a time, most on lug, but the rest took the mack.
Temperatures got down to minus 6 C, and the old lugworm (left from the Courtown site meet event) was freezing hard. I kept a few slices of mack in my pocket to thaw out in advance of the next cast. Very bright too, we hardly needed our headlamps.
Not a bad session at all.
Duration:7:30 pm -1:00 am approx.
Tide: Turning, falling (http://www.irishtimes.com/weather/tides.html)
Weather: clear skies, cold, flat sea
Bait: lug, mack, squid
Result: whiting, rockling, scorpion fish, other sea creatues
Hit Ennereilly with Diego to use up last of lugworm, etc. We also had mackerel and some squid with us. Ended up with about 30 whiting between us, the biggest was 22 cm, but Diego also hooked a scorpion fish and a rocking. I also managed to haul in a starfish, while Diegeo matched that with a clam...
. Started slowly, but as the tide ebbed more it got fairly steady with the whiting coming in two at a time, most on lug, but the rest took the mack.Temperatures got down to minus 6 C, and the old lugworm (left from the Courtown site meet event) was freezing hard. I kept a few slices of mack in my pocket to thaw out in advance of the next cast. Very bright too, we hardly needed our headlamps.
Not a bad session at all.
Re: Ennereilly, 7-January-2009
Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:05 pm
.... and I managed to "strangle" a whiting with the line 
it wasn't hooked at all!
Next time I'll not use hooks
Diego
it wasn't hooked at all!Next time I'll not use hooks
Diego
Last edited by diego on Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Ennereilly, 7-January-2009
Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:13 pm
I forgot about that!
Also, the disgorged belly of one of the whiting was a load of shrimp. Seems to be a common dish for whiting along the coast there.
Also, the disgorged belly of one of the whiting was a load of shrimp. Seems to be a common dish for whiting along the coast there.
Re: Ennereilly, 7-January-2009
Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:25 pm
So Diego are you just lassoing in the fish now? Maybe you should get a cowboy hat
Nice session lads well done on the other sea creatures.
Nice session lads well done on the other sea creatures.
Re: Ennereilly, 7-January-2009
Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:41 pm
diego wrote:.... and I managed to "strangle" a whiting with the line
Next time I'll not use hooks
Diego
Re: Ennereilly, 7-January-2009
Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:42 pm
diego wrote:.... and I managed to "strangle" a whiting with the line
Next time I'll not use hooks
Diego
that happened to me with a shore rockling about 3 weeks
Re: Ennereilly, 7-January-2009
Thu Jan 08, 2009 7:02 pm
Myself and Diego are at the forefront of the Angling New Wave - not only are no hooks needed, but next time we're also gonna see if the whiting will take rasher or sausage too. We need more "progressive" baits...