Youghal area

Date: 05.04.2009

People: J. Warner and I

Duration: 15.00 – 18.00

Tide: H.W. 15.04

Weather: F3/4 south westerly

Bait: Crab, razor and rag

Rigs: Me, 3 hook flowing rigs

Results: John 6 flounder myself 10 flounder

Report:
With a shore comp coming up soon it was time to get the feet back on terra firma and see could I remember how to set up a tripod.
I had rambled around the day before but found nowhere that got me motivated so I ended up getting in some casting practice and boy did I need it.
So after a bit of spinning around Sunday morning watching shoals of small mullet I ended up in the Youghal area where I met up with John.
John had already been fishing a comp in Monatrae where only 3 anglers had 3 single fish. At least that eliminated one venue so we headed to an estuary spot which often produce fish on the dropping tide.
Fishing about a 40 yards apart, the first half hour had no fish showing. John was on the first flounded a nice fish over the 35cm mark . Good enough reason for me to make a move. A steady flow of flounder followed with a couple of doublers coming ashore.
All the fish were a good size with most of them over the 40cm mark.
Best fish of the session fell to me a nice 46cm flounder that weighed 1.14kg. and just over the specimen weight.

In all not a bad come back that flounder push my specimen species count to 10.
3 from the shore, bass, painted ray and flounder. 7 from the boat, monkfish, pouting, whiting, coalfish, megrim, red gurnard and blonde ray.

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thats a fine flounder great fishin

Donal that's one hell of a flounder man well done.

Yappo

Nice one Donal thats a proper flounder

fine flounder , did ya hear of or see the big trawler operating the slob all week

whooaahhh now that's proper flounder fishing. well done lads what size hooks were you using??

well done lads thats a nice session and good to see you gettn back out there

Great fishing Donal,
is it just me or does there seem to be more flounder around at the moment than in previous years not that im complaining,great to see
Tight lines

Some nice flounder there.

did ya hear of or see the big trawler operating the slob all week

Last Sunday week (29th March) I saw a trawler in the inner bay as I was driving along the main Waterford road towards Youghal Bridge, nearly crashed the car as I was trying to see what they were at - I wonder how many bass they "accidentally" caught

cracking flounder

great session well done on specimen flounder

did ya hear of or see the big trawler operating the slob all week

Last Sunday week (29th March) I saw a trawler in the inner bay as I was driving along the main Waterford road towards Youghal Bridge, nearly crashed the car as I was trying to see what they were at - I wonder how many Bass they "accidentally" caught [/quote] doubt that trawler caught any fish as it was a mussel boat

doubt that trawler caught any fish as it was a mussel boat

OK - so that is what they were at - it was dusk when I was driving past so I couldn't see what they were doing.

great report donal.

well done on the specimen
and congratulations on getting to the big 10 mark

he sure makes the match measure look small
well done.

Been taking a ribbing for a while because I’ve never caught a specimen flounder. Now that I caught one the critics are claiming that it’s not n the old money (3lb.)
For a change I don’t make the rules and “any port in a storm” rules will do fine with me

The amount of good size flounder been caught at the moment is a good omen for things to come.

Sadly in my reply to “Alandjordan” I was using size 4 hooks but don’t tell anybody.


Worst still as an angler who claims to be a shore angler I now have only 3 specimen fish from the shore and 7 from the boat.

Long live the lucky boat anglers.

don't knock the size 4 hooks, we went out to do some flattie bashing using them on 3 hook flappers and landed a half dozen bass in december yet more proof that fish can't read rig making books

Well done on the specimen Donal

Worst still as an angler who claims to be a shore angler I now have only 3 specimen fish from the shore and 7 from the boat.

Donal, a specimen from the shore is infinitely more harder to get than a boat specimen....and fewer anglers have them .