codling in Dublin ciy in the liffey

People:Kris , stephen , and myself

Duration:18.30-22.00

Tide:low water 12.00

Weather:showers

Bait:crab, rag and very fresh mackerel

Rigs:flappers

Results:codling, whiting, tompot blennies, flounder




Report:after an abstinence of 43 years i returned to fish the liffey in Dublin city and was duly surprised. Myself Kris and Stephen had a spur of the moment thing and rather than trundle down to wexford to chase smoothies we said we would try a mark that we had been talking about for years, we settled on the south side of the river because it's very quite and not much traffic, a good choice because you can get a load of hobo's mumping on the far side.
This is very comfortable fishing almost fishing out of the boot of your car and no hiking down soft sand beach and cleaning your car the next day.
anyway first cast into the middle of the river proved fruitless i then dropped down the side of the wall and got bites straight away a double codling stephen doing the same had a double tompot blennie this continued for about an hour untill the tide dropped with trebles and doubles the norm great craic on a lite rod,i was using ian golds new lite enticer rod coupled with 10lb braid on a 3oz lead and it was unbelievable you can feel a fish fart it's that sensitive.
Kris stuck with fishing into the middle of the river and was rewarded with some nice whiting and a cracking mackerel before everything went dead, a bit of banter some slaging and a mars bar later the fishing picked up again with kris getting some codling and a nice flounder, myself and stephen continued to wipe out the codling and blennie population down the side of the wall lost count after about 50. Rag down the side of the wall seemed to be the best bait.
All in all a very enjoyable session and one i would hope to repeat soon.

well done any size to the codling or were they just the little one that are no bigger than your figure

Fair play for trying the new spot. All they years i lived in dublin i don't think i ever even considered it. Always meant to try it for mullet alright but nothin else.

well done any size to the codling or were they just the little one that are no bigger than your figure

It depends how big your fingers are

well done i used to get them off the east link years ago but never got a flounder well done again

fair play to you paul for trying the liffey
nice results all the same

Fair play to yis. Who needs to go to Galway or Cork City for some urban fishing!, Up the Dubs!

well done lads ,,nice to no there still there,,, great to here might bring the kids in a couple of weeks,,,do they class as northside fish or southside fish did the northside ones have knifes

plenty of fish lads, well done.

[Labyrinthfish]

The Liffey Fishs Great From November Till January, Had alot of codling To 3 lb Last year ,plenty of Whiting, coalys, Good Flounders ,eels, and dogs.

Better Fishing Than most of The Beachs.

Ill be running an Open on it the day after Stephens day 27th Dec this year , should be a good match.
Details will be posted up soon.

Dave.

Last edited by Labyrinthfish on Tue Aug 04, 2009 6:22 pm, edited 1 time in total.

well done lads ,,nice to no there still there,,, great to here might bring the kids in a couple of weeks,,,do they class as northside fish or southside fish did the northside ones have knifes

racist

Nice session lads.... that enticer is a cracking rod

well done lads,great session for the middle of a city

Well done mate. great to hear. Would you do me a favour and drop me a pm with general area you fished? Been thinking of fishing the Liffey as I don't have a car and am limited to public transport.

nice one paul,,, inner city fishing who'd have thought it would be so good . you must have had a few strange looks from passers by thow

The Liffey Fishs Great From November Till January, Had alot of codling To 3 lb Last year ,plenty of Whiting, coalys, Good Flounders ,eels, and dogs.

Better Fishing Than most of The Beachs.

Ill be running an Open on Stephens day on it this year , should be a good match.
Details will be posted up soon.

Dave.

Any chance of pegging it near the early house?

Did the fish thank you for taking them outta the liffey

Its something I thought about doing a few times, but never got round to it.

By all accounts the liffey seems to be fairly clean, unlike when i was a kid and swam in the liffey there was dead cows and pigs to avoid to say the least. Sure Guinness us the liffey water to make their stout it can't be that bad.