East Cork Beach 26/10/09
Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:58 pm
People:Me
Duration:7pm - 1am
Tide:Flood till 11.30
Weather:Heavy mist, nice on shore breeze
Bait:Rag, Crab
Rigs: Loop Rig, 2 Hook Flapper
Results: 2 Bass, 4 Whitting, 2 Flounder, 1 Codling.
Report:
Went to dig lug yesterday and got to the bed to find it completely covered in weed and the tide not out far enough. Thankfully Rory rescued the situation with some left over Rag he had so many thanks for that Rory!! It was pitch black last night and with the surf and light breeze I was expecting fish. I set up my first rod with a 2 hook flapper baited with rag and put it out about 20yrds. I had just started to thread the line through the second rod when the first rod started nodding. Started the night with a nice Whitting, blank saved
Re-baited the rod and cast it out and again - didnt get a chance to finish setting up my second rod when i got hit and in came my first bass of the night - tiny, but he gave me some belt and put up a very spirited fight!! He even managed to draw blood while I was unhooking him with a spike straight into my finger, getting his own back for being yanked out of the water lol!! I eventually got the second rod set up with small mack baits on size 1/0's and I put it out about 130 yrds. I got a little twitch on it and brought it in with a nice flounder on the end. While I was unhooking the flounder and getting him back in I saw the rod in close go again. Brought it in with a codling around the pound mark attached!! The species were stacking up so I was well happy!! I was confident at this stage that it was gonna be that way for the night with plenty of bites and fish coming in quick. It was a very enjoyable session really, I was hitting fish at distance and in close. All the fish were small enough except for the second bass. He also took one of the tiny mack baits on the loop rig and well out at that! He weighed in about the 3 pound mark. I was gonna stay and fish the outgoing and im sure id have doubled my catch at least but with the weather getting wetter by the minute I headed home. So a good night in which I caught bass and flounder on my whitting baits and on my bass baits I caught whitting and codling lol. I love the unpredictability of fishing, its what keeps me coming back for more!!
Duration:7pm - 1am
Tide:Flood till 11.30
Weather:Heavy mist, nice on shore breeze
Bait:Rag, Crab
Rigs: Loop Rig, 2 Hook Flapper
Results: 2 Bass, 4 Whitting, 2 Flounder, 1 Codling.
Report:
Went to dig lug yesterday and got to the bed to find it completely covered in weed and the tide not out far enough. Thankfully Rory rescued the situation with some left over Rag he had so many thanks for that Rory!! It was pitch black last night and with the surf and light breeze I was expecting fish. I set up my first rod with a 2 hook flapper baited with rag and put it out about 20yrds. I had just started to thread the line through the second rod when the first rod started nodding. Started the night with a nice Whitting, blank saved
Re-baited the rod and cast it out and again - didnt get a chance to finish setting up my second rod when i got hit and in came my first bass of the night - tiny, but he gave me some belt and put up a very spirited fight!! He even managed to draw blood while I was unhooking him with a spike straight into my finger, getting his own back for being yanked out of the water lol!! I eventually got the second rod set up with small mack baits on size 1/0's and I put it out about 130 yrds. I got a little twitch on it and brought it in with a nice flounder on the end. While I was unhooking the flounder and getting him back in I saw the rod in close go again. Brought it in with a codling around the pound mark attached!! The species were stacking up so I was well happy!! I was confident at this stage that it was gonna be that way for the night with plenty of bites and fish coming in quick. It was a very enjoyable session really, I was hitting fish at distance and in close. All the fish were small enough except for the second bass. He also took one of the tiny mack baits on the loop rig and well out at that! He weighed in about the 3 pound mark. I was gonna stay and fish the outgoing and im sure id have doubled my catch at least but with the weather getting wetter by the minute I headed home. So a good night in which I caught bass and flounder on my whitting baits and on my bass baits I caught whitting and codling lol. I love the unpredictability of fishing, its what keeps me coming back for more!!
Re: East Cork Beach 26/10/09
Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:26 am
Nice going there Mike...glad you got something on the rag 
Re: East Cork Beach 26/10/09
Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:55 am
Nice session Mike, well done mate You don't know how lucky you guys are being able to fish for Bass anytime you like! 
You don't know how lucky you guys are being able to fish for Bass anytime you like!
Re: East Cork Beach 26/10/09
Wed Oct 28, 2009 10:54 am
Sounds like a nice session. Well done.
Re: East Cork Beach 26/10/09
Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:48 am
good session there mike well done
Re: East Cork Beach 26/10/09
Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:25 pm
nice fishing mike and nice to c rory getting credit for rag that I DUG 
Re: East Cork Beach 26/10/09
Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:41 pm
brianohanlon wrote:nice fishing mike and nice to c rory getting credit for rag that I DUG
HAHA Nice one for that Brian
Fentster wrote:Nice session Mike, well done mate
You know where I am Fenton - Anytime you feel the urge lol
dexfab wrote:Sounds like a nice session. Well done.
Nice 1 Fabien - when are we heading out??
seanie35 wrote:good session there mike well done
Sound Seanie
rory from cork wrote:Nice going there Mike...glad you got something on the rag
Legend for that Rory, they came in very handy!!!
Re: East Cork Beach 26/10/09
Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:03 pm
nice going lads. nice to see a codling show up.
Re: East Cork Beach 26/10/09
Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:03 pm
Well done on a nice few fish and finding a beach that was fishable.
I was out briefly on Tuesday night but had to give up after 2 casts - beach was choked with weed
I was out briefly on Tuesday night but had to give up after 2 casts - beach was choked with weed
Re: East Cork Beach 26/10/09
Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:44 pm
Pity you didnt have a number for me - you could have come to where I was! The beach was spotless to be fair. I didnt take a single piece of weed of the line for the night and I was ringin round to see who was going for a cast that nite an all!! I pm'd you my number, feel free to use it.
Mike
Mike