Lough Swilly North Side Beach Sun 6-12-09

Myself and fishing Quinn

Tide Incoming 4pm to 8pm

Wet and windy

bait lug,rag,mackeral and sandeel

Rigs pully and 3 hook flappers

Catch me 3 flounder to 39cm, 15 coalfish to 34cm, 2 lsd
Fishing Quinn 1 flounder, 20 coalfish to 35cm, 1 dogfish and 1 codling 30cm.


On arrival at the venue conditions did not look good but despite the wet and windy conditions and roughish sea we decided to stay and fish. Luck was with us because the surf was clear of weed . It was getting dark as we set up and on my first cast i hooked the 39cm flounder quickly followed by two more smaller ones. fishing quinn started to catch smallish coalfish followed by a lsd . I was catching coalfish on a regular basis with a number of them over 30cm. Right at the end of the session fishing quinn connected with a 30cm codling which was a first from this beach. All in all a good nights fishing. About half we through our session a number of headlights appeared walking over the sand dunes heading in our direction. We thought they were fellow anglers coming down to the beach. Much to our suprise they belong to both uniformed and civilian dress garda who asked what we were up to. After explaining we were fishing they relaxed and we had a great conversation with them re fishing at night . They informed us the reason they had came to check was because some person had rung the garda station and informed them that a lot of activity with lights etc was going on down at the beach and needed investigation as it looked very suspicious.

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Last edited by Beachfisher on Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I'm betting it was fishing quinn who called out those gaurds, wanting an independant witness to his codling caught at that beach A report on this forum wasn't enough for him he's now got it on record at the garda station
must all get a nights fishing again soon
Well done good nights fishing lads

i know your only CODDING alistair

Allister unfortunatly no pictures of the garda.

Last edited by Beachfisher on Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:54 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Some nice fish there lads well done!

well done lads ,nice to see the cod.where abouts on the swilly where you if you dont want to post you can pm me.many thanks john

one month to do a report ,your not a civil servant are ya

well done lads ,nice to see the cod.where abouts on the swilly where you if you dont want to post you can pm me.many thanks john

same for me beachfisher, if not, i can understand, btw nice session mate well done on the codling