bangor and co, antrim rock mark 8th & 9th july 09

People: me and jordan

Duration: 8/7/09 bangor 2pm-5pm rock mark 10pm-3am. 9/7/09 rock mark 2pm-6pm

Tide: all

Weather: dry but windy

Bait: lug, rag, mack

Rigs: flappers and feathers

Results: pollack, dogs, codling, ballan wrasse and a huss




Report:

ye ha!! it's good to be back. after a nightmare fortnight of head gaskets blowing and hard drives frying we were back out again. i'll have to keep this short as i've had to borrow my mate's laptop to do this report i got my car back out of the garage on wednesday (after paying a £450 bill ) and we hit bangor to try to stock up on mackies for bait. there were about a dozen other guys feathering for them too and not a single one taken . but at least we did'nt blank with me getting a single pollack and shorty getting 3 in 2 casts at the end (you'd think he might let me win once in a while ). so i had to bite the bullet and buy some mack and we set out to our dog and huss mark. when we arrived it had started to blow a bit and bite indication was a pain, but we fished on until 3am with me blanking and shorty saving the day (again) with 3 dogs and a codling. one of the dogs he got was a monster and in true fashion i forgot the scales . but i'd guesstimate it to be around 3 1/2lb.
DAY 2 i went back up to the dog and huss mark (on my own ) as there was some bait left over and junior had his ju jit su class to go to. (yeah that's my excuse and i'm sticking to it ). it was a lot less windy so the bite indication was a lot better resulting in me getting 2 small ballan wrasse, a wee red reef cod and a 3lb 2oz huss . it's worth mentioning that i fished this mark a few weeks ago with my mate and some idiot must have been fishing it before we arrived as i noticed a poor oul gull tangled in a 1 up 1 down trace with one hook through it foot and one through the beak and bedded in its cheek there was a 5oz lead on the trace and it was baited with big chunks of mackie and we arrived as the gull was being swept off the rocks by the waves. thankfully (after a bit of surgery) i got the hooks de-barbed and outta him and left him wrapped in a towel for a bit to calm down as it was understandably quite stressed. so 30mins later i released him and he flew off none the worse for his ordeal. so please lads remember to strip your traces when you finish a session as traces can be easily forgotten and left behind. we have our first summer baot trip this wednesday, so i'll post a report up in the boat section when i get a chance

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fair play alan, you should have been a vet

nice mix there, i thought ye'd given up the fishing, used to seeing about 4 good reports from ye on a weekly basis.

cheers red. seems like a lifetime ago when i qualified as a vetrenary nurse (back in my flukey youth ). but in saying that i still get to deal with animals in work every night as it is . i've not given up on fishing, just my faith in cars and computers . just working flat out man trying to get some cash up for our fishing excursions but just like arnie, "we'll be back"

well done alan good to hear from you again and i see jordon has not lost his touch well done again

Well done lads nice mixed bag of fish there,Also well done Jordan on out fishing Daddy again.I know the feeling alan i took Shannon to Bangor yesterday for a spot of Mack fishing she got 30 macs and i got 5 all were a decent size to.

Paddy

welcome back mate £450 woo!!!!! sore one, but at least you are back on the road again, and the wee man can start the hunt again for that elusive turbot
great report + pic's greats stuff!!!

Some good fish there well done, and great work with the gull, some people would probably have ignored it and fished on well done

Great to see you guys are back thought you were away on an adventure somewhere nice few fish there well done on the codling red cod and huss and repect for rescuing the gull

Great report Al, glad to hear you got the car sorted (£450,, ouch ),,, missed your reports but know how you feel when things go bad one after the other . Well done on the gull, the old towel over the head calm down trick, works on horses too who wont go where theyre supposed to . The bait for the red cod looks very christmassy Say hello to Jordan for me, Dave

well done lads

nice to see ye back online and back fishing,ye will be rewarded well for saving the sea gull,sorry to hear about the car
good report as usual and nice selection of fish,well done

Good sessions mate and welcome back

I was beginning to think that you had taken up golf or something

Well done lads, good mix of fish.

well done jordan, teaching dad how to do it

well done lads . not a bad few sessions to get you going again mate, been a while since i've been out myself but i did manage to get out on the boat in spain to get a few . good luck with the boat trip

nice to see you back al and jordan,thought ye were away on hols or something catching as usual i see brought my young lad out the other day,guess what!he outfished me and hes a pure novice!think hes converted my ex wife will kill me,he he he

good to see ya back lads. great sessions there. I heard the car was giving ya trouble, hope everything is sorted now.

nice session lads, plenty of fish there, some nice ones too, nice one.

nice one al, thats hectic sneakin out when the man cudnt go .good to see ya doin the doctor dolittle thing and sortin the gull out.