oldhead/the west 21st-24th april
Wed Apr 29, 2009 3:15 am
People:myself and gar, plus john and doggie on thursday evening.
Duration:21st to the 24th april.
Tide:mainly low to high but really all over, unlike the normal easytide links, got it right on friday
Weather: we got it all from t-shirts to oil-skins!
Bait:mack, rag, squid, frozen lug and razor, lures and sw flies!
Rigs:endless
Results:dogs, one bullhuss,shore rockling, 5 beard rockling, pollock, flounder.
Report:arrived at old head tuesday evening and went fishing before we hit base! as you do.
straight into a bullhuss followed by a double of a fine 2lb'ish pollock and a shore rockling.
tide was down but oldhead was good. got a good bite on the 3 hook flapper but snagged on the strike. i knew the fish was on thinking conger after lastyears experience!
i hung on in for 15 min or so giving out line and taking it back but no joy!
eventually i got a run and took the line and struggled excitely only to take in a double dog!
happy to have my tackle and fish but expected something else! that's fishing for ye.
gar was spinning away for pollock and rest assured we fed well for breakfast.
unfortunately for gar the low tide from the rocks didn't help his swff. with heavy darkness we hit the oldhead pier for the last hour resulting with a 5 beard rockling followed by a dog on the 4lb spinning rod. this made good fishing.
wednesday was a wash-out, fished lecanvey rocks, wind was unreal, at one stage the wind scooped the coffee from my cup and scalded the hand off me!
blanked there so we headed back to old head and gar scooped a dinner size pollok on a perkin!
i blanked here.
thursday we met noel(doggie) and john. john and gar scored that night, great to meet the lads!
we fihished up on lecanvey pier friday with perfect tides, i started with a 30cm flounder and it was dogs all the way after this!
4 hrs drive to the weshht and very worth it!
great to meet noel and john for a bit a fishing.
will see you both soon guys.
could type for ages more about this trip........
that's fishing..........
Duration:21st to the 24th april.
Tide:mainly low to high but really all over, unlike the normal easytide links, got it right on friday
Weather: we got it all from t-shirts to oil-skins!
Bait:mack, rag, squid, frozen lug and razor, lures and sw flies!
Rigs:endless
Results:dogs, one bullhuss,shore rockling, 5 beard rockling, pollock, flounder.
Report:arrived at old head tuesday evening and went fishing before we hit base! as you do.
straight into a bullhuss followed by a double of a fine 2lb'ish pollock and a shore rockling.
tide was down but oldhead was good. got a good bite on the 3 hook flapper but snagged on the strike. i knew the fish was on thinking conger after lastyears experience!
i hung on in for 15 min or so giving out line and taking it back but no joy!
eventually i got a run and took the line and struggled excitely only to take in a double dog!
happy to have my tackle and fish but expected something else! that's fishing for ye.
gar was spinning away for pollock and rest assured we fed well for breakfast.
unfortunately for gar the low tide from the rocks didn't help his swff. with heavy darkness we hit the oldhead pier for the last hour resulting with a 5 beard rockling followed by a dog on the 4lb spinning rod. this made good fishing.
wednesday was a wash-out, fished lecanvey rocks, wind was unreal, at one stage the wind scooped the coffee from my cup and scalded the hand off me!
blanked there so we headed back to old head and gar scooped a dinner size pollok on a perkin!
i blanked here.
thursday we met noel(doggie) and john. john and gar scored that night, great to meet the lads!
we fihished up on lecanvey pier friday with perfect tides, i started with a 30cm flounder and it was dogs all the way after this!
4 hrs drive to the weshht and very worth it!
great to meet noel and john for a bit a fishing.
will see you both soon guys.
could type for ages more about this trip........
that's fishing..........
Re: oldhead/the west 21st-24th april
Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:43 am
as you do straight into a bullhuss
I want to call you so many names right now! But I'll be bigger then that. Well done man nice session.
Re: oldhead/the west 21st-24th april
Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:48 am
excellent fishing guys!!! reading your report has really wetted our appetite for our trip to lettergesh on sunday 
hope we're gonna be kept as busy as you all were 
hope we're gonna be kept as busy as you all were
Re: oldhead/the west 21st-24th april
Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:14 am
john and gar scored that night
My kind of fishing trip....
Re: oldhead/the west 21st-24th april
Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:56 am
sounded like a good ole session and well worth it every minute of the drive. well done lads
Re: oldhead/the west 21st-24th april
Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:19 pm
Good session Lads
fair play to ya for the flounder at Lecanvey - yet to see one there myself
Good to hear there were a few pollack about as well
fished oldhead with a mate last nite - doggies all the way for us, apart from one wee rockling - I managed to snag my weight in the harbour wall trying to lift a doggie - while we were trying to free it a wee rockling sneaked out and snaffles the other bait - cheeky
FWIW stopped at Murrisk pier for a nosey on the way over - one of the guys on the boats said it wasnt much use as empties at low water, but reckoned there are usually loads of mullet about - so might check it out for them one of these days
fair play on the seatrout - hard to beat on the fly, the dodder is a lovely river, seen a crackin Salmon in it at ballsbridge in December bout 8 or 9 years ago.
davy
fair play to ya for the flounder at Lecanvey - yet to see one there myself
Good to hear there were a few pollack about as well
fished oldhead with a mate last nite - doggies all the way for us, apart from one wee rockling - I managed to snag my weight in the harbour wall trying to lift a doggie - while we were trying to free it a wee rockling sneaked out and snaffles the other bait - cheeky
FWIW stopped at Murrisk pier for a nosey on the way over - one of the guys on the boats said it wasnt much use as empties at low water, but reckoned there are usually loads of mullet about - so might check it out for them one of these days
fair play on the seatrout - hard to beat on the fly, the dodder is a lovely river, seen a crackin Salmon in it at ballsbridge in December bout 8 or 9 years ago.
davy