greystones, 30-07-09
Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:26 pm
People:Me and Fishface
Duration:6-30pm-10pm
Tide:rising, then falling, high at 7-30pm
Weather:lovely, no wind ,warm
Bait:rag and mack and crab legs
Rigs:flappers and mini rigs
Results: Me; Corkwing wrasse, tompot blenny, shanny, whiting, codling, pollock, dab
Fishface; Doggie, dab, and whiting
Report:With bad weather forecast for the weekend, i decided to head to Greystones rocks last evening as the weather wasnt too bad. When i arrived at the mark there was no wind, calm seas and sunny weather and it stayed like this till i left, just missing a downpour
.When i opened my packet of rag, they were mostly tiny, but as i was mini fishing they did the job ok. Fishface arrived half an hour later and was using peeler and gave me some of the legs. I got a nice corkwing wrasse on my first cast and a small pollock on the second and this was the pattern for the evening thankfully.
I had about 6 fish when Neil arrived and it was a fish almost every cast( mostly small it has to be said). Neil hadnt the same luck and i had about 20 by the time he landed a fine big doggie, giving him the bragging rights for biggest fish. At one stage he cast out about half a mile but a speedboat ran over the line cutting it and trace and rig were gone. I stuck with my trusty 50 yd long range cast
, and the fish kept biting. For once i used a kid hanging around us to my advantage by getting him to annoy Fishface by asking him how many fish he was catching, and then telling him that the other man was catching loads of fish 
No sign of any bass but i was happy enough, a grand relaxing session. I also got a personal best codling of 18 and a half cms (couldve stretched him to 19 cms if i had angled the pic correctly 
).
The peeler legs are deadly, with the fish going for the hook with them on it 100% of the time. We left at 10pm with a big downpour looming, but i managed a small dab on the last cast,,,,,,,,,God is good
Duration:6-30pm-10pm
Tide:rising, then falling, high at 7-30pm
Weather:lovely, no wind ,warm
Bait:rag and mack and crab legs
Rigs:flappers and mini rigs
Results: Me; Corkwing wrasse, tompot blenny, shanny, whiting, codling, pollock, dab
Fishface; Doggie, dab, and whiting
Report:With bad weather forecast for the weekend, i decided to head to Greystones rocks last evening as the weather wasnt too bad. When i arrived at the mark there was no wind, calm seas and sunny weather and it stayed like this till i left, just missing a downpour
.When i opened my packet of rag, they were mostly tiny, but as i was mini fishing they did the job ok. Fishface arrived half an hour later and was using peeler and gave me some of the legs. I got a nice corkwing wrasse on my first cast and a small pollock on the second and this was the pattern for the evening thankfully.I had about 6 fish when Neil arrived and it was a fish almost every cast( mostly small it has to be said). Neil hadnt the same luck and i had about 20 by the time he landed a fine big doggie, giving him the bragging rights for biggest fish. At one stage he cast out about half a mile but a speedboat ran over the line cutting it and trace and rig were gone. I stuck with my trusty 50 yd long range cast
, and the fish kept biting. For once i used a kid hanging around us to my advantage by getting him to annoy Fishface by asking him how many fish he was catching, and then telling him that the other man was catching loads of fish No sign of any bass but i was happy enough, a grand relaxing session. I also got a personal best codling of 18 and a half cms (couldve stretched him to 19 cms if i had angled the pic correctly ). The peeler legs are deadly, with the fish going for the hook with them on it 100% of the time. We left at 10pm with a big downpour looming, but i managed a small dab on the last cast,,,,,,,,,God is good
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Re: greystones, 30-07-09
Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:43 pm
nice fishing eyes,them minis all count,nice to get a good few.
Re: greystones, 30-07-09
Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:46 pm
way to go dave 
bragging rites belong to you at the moment man (but i'll bet neil say's he was'nt properly trying ). you could stretch the wee cod out ok barbule tip to tail tip that is 
. if you don't fancy going out with us on wednesday for the smuts you could tie in with us on thursday for a bass hunt dawsey is gonna get a run down with us, so we'll get our heads down for a bit on wednesday night in bettystown and get up to do it all over again on thursday 
either way we'll be getting as much fishing time outta the 2 days as possible
bragging rites belong to you at the moment man (but i'll bet neil say's he was'nt properly trying ). you could stretch the wee cod out ok barbule tip to tail tip that is . if you don't fancy going out with us on wednesday for the smuts you could tie in with us on thursday for a bass hunt dawsey is gonna get a run down with us, so we'll get our heads down for a bit on wednesday night in bettystown and get up to do it all over again on thursday either way we'll be getting as much fishing time outta the 2 days as possible
Re: greystones, 30-07-09
Fri Jul 31, 2009 6:53 pm
Nice slection of fish wel done.
Re: greystones, 30-07-09
Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:39 pm
Easy fishing done well, keep it up Dave, nice you out fished Neil again, even if you cant out cast him
Heading out tomorrow to that local bass mark, or may even give that smoothie mark a go, you wanna join me?
Heading out tomorrow to that local bass mark, or may even give that smoothie mark a go, you wanna join me?
Re: greystones, 30-07-09
Sat Aug 01, 2009 2:04 am
well done some lovely fish and photos,i must try the mini fishing sometime,looks interesting
Re: greystones, 30-07-09
Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:00 am
Well done lads,great session and a nice variety of fish.
Paddy
Paddy
Re: greystones, 30-07-09
Sun Aug 02, 2009 1:13 pm
Nice going lads some lovely colouring on the wrasse 