rock mark between bray and greystones, duhhhhh!

People: krustovski and the dodger

Duration:7-11pm

Tide: on the ebb

Weather:calm, slight breeze

Bait:crab, rag, sandeel and mack

Rigs:pulleys, single hook flappers and lure

Results: starry smoothounds, common smoothounds, whiting, dogfish, ballan wrasse, corkwing wrasse and pollock




Report: and they said it couldnt be done...............................................



to prove a point about a certain mark which has been named misleading in past reports, myself and the dogder hit the infamous north wicklow rock that is ................... after a 25 minute walk and hike we reached the mark that i fished with jack and rapala joe. it was good to us that day with quite a few pollock and nice wrasse. hope where high, a high tide combined with clear water had us thinking of perfect fishing. after a few fruitless casts i decided to throw out the big guns, despite a reduced casting range from i can do off a beach i was hitting the sand, two cast later after a few missed doggie bites, i was reeling in my first hound of the night, at about 3lbs it was only small, but we proved it could be done!
next cast had me into a slightly better fish of around 5lbs, it put up a great scrap, diving into the kelp on the way in, the pulley worked a charm and he was saftley landed . rodger's rod was next to go,landing just short of the clear ground he got hammered by a super wrasse, which went just under a shade off 4lbs on the scales. great fight off the bugger. my rod arched over and i was left with a serious slack liner after helping to land rodgers fish. missed him.

using a single hook flapper loaded with rag, i notched up a few other fish including some small wrasse and a solitary pollock about a pound and a half in weight. our attentions soon focused by onto the hound rods, getting smashed nearly every cast we missed a good few fish as they kept slack lineing us in the tide, i landed another fish before it got kinda quite. i toyed with the idea of a huss or ray and decided to put a bit a fish bait on for the craic, the dogfish found it irrisitible, homing in on it in seconds,end of that plan. rodger missed yet another hound after the fish taking a good bit of line with the ratchet on, we where getting fustrated. just as i was about to put a conger rod down the mist decended on us, we both decided it would be safer to head back up while it was clear enough as we had a serious bit of rock hopping and climbing to do before we found the path.

job done, the mark does produce fish, it must be said it is quite dangerous and if your not reasonbly fit dont even think about it. rodger has some pics

well done on proving them wrong and getting a few fish

very dangerus mark and not for anyone who cant do some serious climbing ,my shaggin legs are still aching still was good old session

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few more pics

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Jaysus...........

You really were where you said you were

And lads, the climb down aint that bad....I did it often enough last summer.

Nice fishing though, conditions looked great.

Fairplay. Any chance of directions?

shamoo unless you call a 300 foot climb and walking on wet grass and slugs on a very steep incline with a 60 foot drop,s below onto jagged rocks not too bad ,and dodgey phone reception for emergencys,i personally wouldnt be telling enyone how to access this mark due to its unsuitibility for most anglers,
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p.s dont forget your nuts

Well done men!

What hooks were ye using ?

Well done lads, no mistaking Bray Head, i'll believe yis about the dangers. Great fish, might have to get into serious training now

ones like this ,had to get a manta off eric size 3/0 i think

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Regardless of where it was take a bow. Super fish.

well done lads i see eric is still kissing fish

Great session lads, Erics offers of mysterious Marks are not to scoffed at! His fish loving is more quastionable

Don't mind the kissing of the fish but think about what your doing to his health with that passive smoking Shouldn't smoke around loved ones nice fishing lads like that fat wrasse

Looks the spot alright there lads. fair play to ya's for doing to climb. looks like a hairy enough ole trip. some amount of fish caught as well. well done lads

aha so it aint a myth looks like ye were fishing high up off the water, dem boga grips are handy im going to start using mine for putting bait on the hook

nice fishing lads well done.
looks like you were planning a bit of wading around there eric ill say no more.
i dont think it was a case of they said it couldent be done , it was a case of it shouldnt be done in the depts of winter chasing cod that were not getting caught there.
and im not saying cod dont get caught there either, as the north beach was a fantastic cod venue many moons ago.

we talked about winter fishing here last night and came to the conclusion this particular mark would be too dangerous but have our eye on a similar one thats a bit easier to access and not a 20 minute walk either

ye can't beat Waterford nice one lads.

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