sligo beach mark, 10.9.09

People:me

Duration: 5 - 9.00pm

Tide:lw@4.00ish

Weather: the summer we never had

Bait: frozen mack, earthworms, later fresh mack and 2 sandeels

Rigs: 3 hook flappers

Results: turbot x2, seatrout x2, lesser weeverx2, one big fat mack.

decided on a change of scenery, and with some good reports from sligo comin in, i decided to return to one of my old haunts and see if i could pick up a few flatties, fished two rods - one with a gripper which i chucked out and left, the other was a light spinning rod with a 3 hook flapper an 3oz weight, i would chuck this out and slowly retrieve - a few winds of the reel, then leave it a wee while - then a few more, find it works really well to find out what sort of range any flatties are hangin about. tried the earthworms again - just to see and they drew first blood - wee turbot bout 23cm had took the worms on the middle hook of the flapper ,

in realy close i kept getting very small nibbles - eventually hooked up - feckin weever bout 3 inches long on mack - i really hate catchin these.

got a good bite an had something small but lively on, lost him right at the edge, but saw a flash of silver and reckoned seatrout.

baited up and out again, and straight into a very lively fish - reckoned i had a crackin seatrout, but it was a big fat mack - best fight of the day and nicely timed as my frozen mack was crap - and gues what he took ? feckin earthworms!!,

had the two sea trout in quick succession on the fresh mack both about 3/4lb ish - and very heavily sea liced, one was kind enough to regurgitate two sandeels as i was unhooking him. which quickly found there way onto a hook

had another bigger weever, and then things went quiet - fished for another hour an half maybe a bit more and got another turbot, slightly smaller an just scraping 20 cm, this one on mack, gave another 1/2 hr or so til dark set in, and called it quits,

cracking wee session, and nice to catch on the worms - handy emergency bait

davy




Report:

Nice fishing and nice selection of fish. Handy backup them earthworms, rag can be very effective in fresh water.

looks like you have a FINtastic session davy,very big well done mate

People:me

Duration: 5 - 9.00pm

Tide:lw@4.00ish

Weather: the summer we never had

Bait: frozen mack, earthworms, later fresh mack and 2 sandeels

Rigs: 3 hook flappers

Results: turbot x2, seatrout x2, lesser weeverx2, one big fat mack.

decided on a change of scenery, and with some good reports from sligo comin in, i decided to return to one of my old haunts and see if i could pick up a few flatties, fished two rods - one with a gripper which i chucked out and left, the other was a light spinning rod with a 3 hook flapper an 3oz weight, i would chuck this out and slowly retrieve - a few winds of the reel, then leave it a wee while - then a few more, find it works really well to find out what sort of range any flatties are hangin about. tried the earthworms again - just to see and they drew first blood - wee turbot bout 23cm had took the worms on the middle hook of the flapper ,

in realy close i kept getting very small nibbles - eventually hooked up - feckin weever bout 3 inches long on mack - i really hate catchin these.

got a good bite an had something small but lively on, lost him right at the edge, but saw a flash of silver and reckoned seatrout.

baited up and out again, and straight into a very lively fish - reckoned i had a crackin seatrout, but it was a big fat mack - best fight of the day and nicely timed as my frozen mack was crap - and gues what he took ? feckin earthworms!!,

had the two sea trout in quick succession on the fresh mack both about 3/4lb ish - and very heavily sea liced, one was kind enough to regurgitate two sandeels as i was unhooking him. which quickly found there way onto a hook

had another bigger weever, and then things went quiet - fished for another hour an half maybe a bit more and got another turbot, slightly smaller an just scraping 20 cm, this one on mack, gave another 1/2 hr or so til dark set in, and called it quits,

cracking wee session, and nice to catch on the worms - handy emergency bait

davy




Report:

nice one davy,you even get sea trout when you sea fish

You have to be happy when you catch a Sea trout as for Earthworms every time I went out to the garden to get them I blanked the same with my daughters garden ,they are worse than the Mackerel this year., so much for Fairy liquid

"cracking wee session" indeed, me and a mate watched sea trout jump under our nose all night the other night and resulted in a blank! we only had lures! good to see them mind ya!
nice fishing Davy!

Good on ya davy nice session, nice to hear sligo beaches are producing a bit

Warren

nice session Davy think earth worms must be easier to collect than lug and seem to be working
Soon as you said weaver fish i think i know were you were ? have you tried mullagmore lately its fishing quite well

Cheers
Mike

Nice selection of fish, must give the earthworms a go they seem to be very good!

well done on the turbot

Well done davy, Nice selection of fish caught, i caught a weever recently they are a nasty little bugger of a fish , as i left the one i caught go he immediately just buried himself in the sand, was almost like he was going to go about exacting a nasty revenge ,

Regards

Seamus

cheers for all the replies lads

the earthworms are definitly handy - esp as you can keep them for months in a tub of soil, i put 3 or 4 threaded on a hook, same as when fishin for salmon.

funny with the sea trout - generally i find that when they are jumpin they arent feedin and they drive you nuts by bouncing around in front of you.

Mike - I dont think it was where i think you think it was will send ya a PM - never fished mullaghmore - really must give it a go - when do ya reckon it fishes best?