Whiting Bay 15th Aug 09

People: a few

Duration: 9pm to 1 am

Tide: 2ish

Weather: Clear skies and little or no surf

Bait: Sandeel, razor

Rigs: Cascade pennel 2/0 & 1/0

Results: 1 dog, 1 painted ray




Report: A beautiful night to be out but too calm for decent beach fishing. A few people decided to go canoeing in front of me as I set up. It always amazes me that they have the whole beach but must always go in front of the anglers, anyway no harm done they moved off before it got dark. I had dog before dusk and thought that it was going to be doggie bashing again like my last trip to red barn a couple of weeks earlier. But not a bite until 11am when I got my first painted ray, had a few thornies before but was delighted to get the ray on sandeel. All went quite after that and packed up after 1am.

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Well done, congrats on the ray. Had some swimmers in front of me at some rocks last nite, almost daring me to have a cast

nice one on getting the painted ray man lovely looking fish.

Well done. I took a drive to Whiting Bay last Saturday for the first time. I didn;t go fishing just took a drive to see what the beach was like.
I'm not sure if i was in the right place. Is the beach where you have quite a long walk down a narrow road that leads to the beach.
The water looked lovely but there were many poeple swimming etc so wasn;t sure if that is where you fish.
I want to try fishing at White Bay hopefully over the weekend. Do you fish off the shore or do you have to go off the rocks.
Seems like if you get onto the rocks when the tide is out you may not be able to come back onto the shore when the tide is in.
Can anyone tell me exactly where is the best place to fish at White Bay. That is if i have the correct place........

Cheers ,

I'm still waiting for my first Bass

Well done on the ray - I must give Whiting Bay another go - I havn't fished it in almost a year, it can throw up some good size flounder too.

whats the story with the car park there - last time i was down there was a sign saying it was private property or something along those lines

basically saying you couldnt park there

john.

Well done on the painted ray mate cracking fish.

Paddy

well done nice painted.dean only fished it a few times so not sure where best but fish off the beach.there are two car parks there last time i was there was around 4 monts ago and no problem parking.

Nice ray there drseafish

Dean...I think you have White Bay in Cork mixed up with Whiting Bay in Waterford ...I'll send you a PM

There were a good few painted ray caught that night, 1 flounder to size ( a few undersize ) and dogs, no bass though.

nice to see them turning up any showing in garryvoe yet?

Nice ray there,well done.Theres been plenty of flatties on my last few trips there,had a lash for the ray the last few times on the slack tides but not a touch so fairplay.Interestingly no sign of the silvery fellows despite the perfect surf conditions,lots of the flats i've been catching are only 10 to 15yds out,no real sizeable fish though but good fun on the lighter gear.
Tight lines

Apologies Lads,

I think I was confused with White Bay in Cork. If anyone knows much about White Bay in Cork you might drop me a reply.
Just wanted to know whether it is worth fishing and what locations of the beach are best.

Thanks
Dean.

nice ray there