portrush and donaghadee harbours sat 12th + sun 13th sep 09

People: me and jordan

Duration: see below

Tide: portrush, push and drop. donaghadee low turning back in

Weather: great

Bait: mack, squid and rag

Rigs: flappers and feathers

Results: see below




Report: after my good session at portrush during the week jordan naturally wanted in on the action. so we arrived at the harbour around 3pm to get a bit of fishing done before we were due to go out on the boat at 6pm . it was a fish a cast and by 5.30 pm jordan had landed 8 dab and a corkwing wrasse. i was lagging behind with only 4 dab (as usual ). the baits had only touched the bottom and the fish were stripping the rag off the hooks quicker than we could re-bait them we got loads of bites but just could'nt hook them up. the time flew by and we got set for our boat trip. sadly the fishing on the boat was pretty poor. about 10 anglers on the boat and about 10 mack taken on the whole trip we even resorted to baiting the feathers up with rag and that only got jordan 1 poor cod and me 3 small whiting and 4 average poor cod . it also put the kibosh on our intended evening session at lenan or fahan for a go at the thornies. with only 2 frozen mack we had brought with us, it was hardly worth the time heading up seeing as the harbour was fishing so well. so we decided to stay and fish the harbour until dawn. probably the best decision of the weekend too . we had the place to ourselves and jordan was quickly back into the fish. it was a case of fishing one rod each and holding it in your hand at all times as the bites were almost instant. a lot of small fish were robbing the rag but we held out with the 1/0 hooks in the hope of something bigger coming along. it did'nt take long before some bigger fish came on the feed and we got some nice coalies and pollack. jordan beat his P.B. pouting and i beat my P.B. poor cod . jordan hooked into a nice dog near the end that looked like it might be a specimen. but my digital scales only put it at 1lb 10ozs which seemed really off. i think i need new ones we left around 5am absolutely shatterd but really happy with how well we had done. jordan ended up with 10 dab, 8 poor cod, 3 codling, 4 pouting, 5 coalies and his doggie. i got 8 dab, 3 poor cod, 1 coalie, 2 pouting, 1 whiting and a pollack. not bad for our second session in the harbour we made it home for around 6am and were straight to bed as we wanted to get a wee afternoon session in at donaghadee.

so with a few hours sleep we got up and sorted and headed to donaghadee to use up the last of the rag and squid. we were set up and fishing for 1pm ready to fish the incomming tide. it was unusually quiet with jordan blanking and me only getting a goldsinny wrasse, 2 micro pollack and 2 equally small codling drew and the missus came for a walk round the lighthouse and we had a yarn for a bit, which was good as i have'nt seen him about for a bit . he was telling me that rab was down and had a good session the other day which was odd as the fishing was really poor when we were there seems to be a feast or a famine there at the moment . by 5pm we were both exhausted and headed for home. but we can't complain as we did really well at portrush

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Wow, well done guys, fantastic session, looks like a beautiful spot to drop a bait in.

yes you've guessed it. yet more pics

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Nice session lads well done on a good mix of fish. I really like Jordan's choice in shirt wear. Should be his new fishing uniform!

That's a good mix there, I thought you would have caught more fish on the boat than the shore

Thats some weekends fishing lads,Well done on the pb's and you's had some cracking weather for the fishing as well,Im starting to get withdrawal symptoms as i haven't been out in a while but hopefully be out this weekend now i'm better

Paddy

well done lad,s some great photo,s there

Excellent few days of fishing the pair of ya, great weather to boot! And a few pb's also, what more could you guy's ask for.

Great sesssion & slection of fish, looks like a lovely spot there well done

shame about donaghadee but you more than made up for it at portrush (well apart from the boat)

at least you can get out fishing i would even take a blank just to wet a line

Well done Al and Jordan, more marathon sessions, you'd put us all to shame .Pity about the boat, im sure your freezer must be getting low on macks at this stage ,,but well done on the PB's and some decent pollock and coalies there, and dabs come to think of it,all the best , dave

Well done and good to see the lad has taste when it comes to football

Plenty of fish the Al and Jordan, was a nice big Doggie too.

Well done Al and Jordan,some lovely fish,great report and photos,great doggie

Who did really well By my count Jordan beat you again despite the shirt

Well done boys a great time yous had congrats on the variety landed


Warren

Al- as usual good session and report. One observation tho. Jordan seems to have more success than his choice of team colours did last year.....

Good report. Keep em coming and tight lines.

great fishing guys love the pic's...nice one on beating your pb jordan