Portaferry Pier. Weds 3/6/09

People:Me

Duration:9.30am-2pm

Tide:high 10.30am

Weather:Sunny, light breeze

Bait:Frozen eels, mussel

Rigs:Float, 2 hook flapper, spinners, lead heads, lures, feathers and the kitchen sink...

Results:Big fat zilch




Report:Having blanked here 3 times in the last month or so I thought the hot weather may have made a difference....wrong! For someone who is only learning again later in life it is very depressing . Literally tried everything in the bag for reasonable amounts of time at all depths. At least I know it's not just me as 2 blokes were packing up after 2 hours on the rising tide with nothing to show either! What is going on here, as I thought this was a reasonable mark for coalies etc and the odd mack? All help gratefully received!

can be hard sometimes but hard fishing makes the good days better. have to blank the odd time no matter what u do ,keep at it and use smaller hooks like the pro's they always catch fish .

unlucky man. not sure whats going on down that neck of the woods lately donaghadee and orlock are fishing really poorly too these marks usually fish well, but obvously no one has told the fish that thats why we've been hitting the co. antrim marks more over the last few weeks. i just hope it picks up soon

Unlucky on the blank mate,i guess thats fishing for ya hopefully it will turn around for ya soon.

Paddy

Bad luck on the blank mate

By the way, I like your avatar

portaferry fishes best in july and august

Cheers Dan, glad it's not just me! As for the smaller hooks, the bait wasn't even being tugged at so a meat hook wouldn't have mattered!

i use size 14s and earthworm, coarse tactics i know, but got my Pb wrasse on this tackle at portaferry, 5.75lbs.