Cork 31-03-09 The flats are back...:)

People:Myself, Scotsman, Nik.

Duration:I was there for about a half hour before the lads arrived around 8pm

Tide:HW 9.30 ish 3.84m

Weather:Peachy

Bait:Mack, blacks, razor, crab

Rigs:flappers and pulleys for the most part

Results:Scotsman 9 flounder, 1 schoolie, Myself 9 flounder, 2 rockling and a coalie, Nik stuck it out for a bass and blanked.




Report:

Headed to a beach last night for a bit of a session (crabby missus at home... ) Nothing too taxing, bit of r and r more than anything else. Pleasure fishing this year has been in short supply and we havent really done a whole pile of it to be honest, results have been none too inspiring either for that matter.

A balmy evening awaited us with a small surf on the beach (too small for the bassies really but you cant have everything) I arrived about a half hour before the lads and tackled up 2 rods, one clipped with a big bait and the other my usual flattie scratcher.

The lads arrived and as they were setting up fish number 1 of the evening, a flounder was slid up the sand. It wasnt long before Lee got in on the action with one himself followed by his first ever trebler . The man was on fire and pulled in a small bass at range on razor to add to his tally. Fish were coming steadily on the close in rods with nary a blank cast until the end. A bit of banter of course ensued as it looked like I was about to take a pasting at my own game but things evened up by the finish with a couple of doubles and a treble coming along to help my cause somewhat

Funniest moment of the night was my last fish, a small five bearded rockling that had elected to take a full small peeler at distance. This fish had approached the bait from the eye end of the hook, got it in so far and then it stuck with half the 2/0 including bend and point protruding out of his mouth.....idiot....

Great to see the flounder back in numbers, I've missed them this past while. All fish bar two were taken inside 20 yards.

excellent report there..good to see the flatties making a comeback roll on summer time

Well done Pete, Lee.
I am sorry I didn't get out now - but I was trying to preserve domestic harmony

What size was the bass?

, a small five bearded rockling that had elected to take a full small peeler at distance. This fish had approached the bait from the eye end of the hook, got it in so far and then it stuck with half the 2/0 including bend and point protruding out of his mouth.....idiot..

I had exactly the same thing happen on Monday night - the rockling had stuffed his mouth with so much lug that he couldn't release it when I retrieved
Not the same fish as yours though as it was a different beach.

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Nice session lads well done on the flatties.

I am sorry I didn't get out now - but I was trying to preserve domestic harmony

Oh I know that one all too well!

Yes Pete, great night after all those poor sessions earlier in the year - I love fishing again!

I think I had Pete a little tiny bit worried there for a while, with a treble then a double shot of flats coming in one after the other, but good craic and a good number of fish considering we weren't fishing it hard. All those flattie tips Pete has been giving me are paying off at last

Don't worry about Nik, he's a hardcore bassman and wouldn't be wasting his time catching flats , if it's not big and silver it's not worthing catching.

Frank, the bass was relatively small, didn't measure it (or indeed any of the rest of the fish), I'd hazard a guess at the low 30's cm. He had an interesting nick out of his back, not sure if it was a bite, a bird mark or even a lamprey suck mark.

rockling swallow the hooks like that quite a bit even on small baits. nice fishing lads.

lol!! looks like a new species of rockling with 2 chin barbules the way that hook's sticking outta his mouth well done lads

Nice session lads
Good to see the fishing is picking up again in the Cork area,if recent posts are anything to go by...

twenty yards have you been practicing your power casting on the sly last comp i fished most flats were 20 feet out its very hard to cast so short and look like you really want to get a fish i,m sure folks walking the beach think anyone casting out like that hasnt a clue

Know what you mean roger, gas when people stop to watch you cast and you only drop it 15 yards and then they walk off thinking what a plonker.