dublin bay

People:myself and JD

Duration:about 3hours...

Tide:in!

Weather:light breeze in the face

Bait:crab,squid

Rigs:myself an up and over and a pennell for JD

Results:to follow




Report:the last few sessions have been nothing but hardwork and little to show for our efforts in the way of targetted species. a plaice hunt, a ray hunt, little in the way of mackeral and 3 botched smoothie hunts so when JD asked if i wanted to try again i thought well why yes of course! he said that wednesday evening was the time while i was just happy enough to get out and chuck lead. armed with a rod and reel each a few crab and a tripod between us we were greated by a fishy looking sea. we quickly baited up. i lashed one and JD put his out just over the rocks. after the last few poor sessions i wasn't expecting much as i turned to bait up my other rig i was more confused than anything when i saw my rod bouncing over in the corner of my eye no more than a minute after castin! surely something must be wrong! i left it a minute or two longer then retrieved to look at the bait just to be sure. sure enough it had been smashed. straight(ehem cough cough...) out again and within a minute the rodtip bent over slowly as a smut made it's way off with bait. i wound down into it and the first smoothie of the session made his way to shore. a few casts more saw five more fish landed in similar fashion and JD getting annoyed with me but he was soon rewarded with his first fish- proof that complaining does actually work! i added another 4 fish and JD added a second both of us dropping a fish or two each as we tried to guide them around the rocks. we left happy after a short session that produced the goods. no monsters but good craic with all the fish swimming off strong.


a starry for John...


a small common...

well done lads. good to see they smuts are about. some amount of fish caught as well. I cant wait to go! yep-ha

well done lads good report.

Great to see you got your reward in the end, sorry I decided to stay at home drinking beer now.

But you know where I going fishing to night

well done getting the species ye were looking for,nice looking smoothie

well done lads nice bit of cropping

well done lads im yet to get my first one this year hopefully this weekend

well done lads nice 2 get a few hounds around the dublin area

well done lads nice bit of cropping

i hope you're not slagging my new haircut?!

ONE THING I NEVER SLAG IS HAIR but if i did have some i think i,d look after it

mark your hair beowtiful, leave the tomfoolery to the children,

didnt you read this thread rodger?
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21679

you dont even know him

lads that was some going for a short session if only they were all like that