Clare 13/12/2009

People:ME and Bassmania

Duration:9pm to 0030am

Tide:Incoming

Weather:Baltic cold & Calm

Bait:Crab, Sandeel, frozen lug & Mack

Rigs:2 Hooks & Pennels

Results:6 Conger & 1 Whiting




Report: Decided that everything looked good, both of us hadn't been out in ages so we were itching to go. Wanted to fish a pier into the estuary that gives nice whiting but when we got there, there was already 5 or 6 lads setting up so we decided that things would be a wee bit cramped so we headed down a short distance to a marker that was given to us earlier. We both set up 2 rods, one with a pennel and the other with a 2 hook flapper. Varied the bait using cocktails, Bassmania got a great strike shortly after setting up, fish was putting up a great battle but came off . After about 30 mins bassmania took a good knock, after a few minutes of reeling his other rod took a knock so i took over dutied with fishy number 1, up appeared a lovely withing , looked over to see Bassmania with his other rod buckling, this fish was fighting hard and really did not want to come out of the water, after a short while i took over, in the distance i could see the fish breaking the surface, Conger on, lovely 7lb conger. After that we were both hitting the Eels mostly on Sandeel, We had a great short session, need to get going sooner again and also need to put the other lad on a fitness regieme over the Christmas, No Christmas pud for him this year . All fish were caught at distance, The weather steadily got colder through the night wasn't too bad as i had about 10 layers of clothes under the bib and brace. The drive home was a bit hairy with fog limiting vision to about 10ft

Regards

Seamus

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well done lads, some nice fish there, gotta love conger on the beachcasters!

good goin lads. the whiting in the 3rd pic looks huge!

nice going

mann that's awesome catch you got there lads, big well done

Hi Seamus,

Great result dude, looks like the decision to move to a new mark paid off, was planning a trip down around there for a few whiting this week but all I can do now is whinge and moan about this bug “Flu / cold” that hit me a few days ago,

They say a problem shared is a problem halved, But I don’t know about that because I told everybody about this bug problem and it seems to have got worse,

Someone told me I had the mann flu

Judging by the lights in the background me thinks a mutual friend may have put you’s on this mark, I haven’t tried it yet but it looks like he was right again,

Well done again on the result.

well done lads, some nice fish there, gotta love conger on the beachcasters!

Thanks Chris, we had some crack on light gear with these lads, had been targetting Whiting

good goin lads. the whiting in the 3rd pic looks huge!

Cheers Red, Trick of the camera on that photo, Bassmania was trying to kill 2 birds with one stone, Excuse the pun, No fish were harmed in the making of this piece

nice going

Thanks Taz, always great when you haven't been out in a while to get a good rum, meant run

mann that's awesome catch you got there lads, big well done

Cheers Zeke

Hi Seamus,

Great result dude, looks like the decision to move to a new mark paid off, was planning a trip down around there for a few whiting this week but all I can do now is whinge and moan about this bug “Flu / cold” that hit me a few days ago,

They say a problem shared is a problem halved, But I don’t know about that because I told everybody about this bug problem and it seems to have got worse,

Someone told me I had the mann flu

Judging by the lights in the background me thinks a mutual friend may have put you’s on this mark, I haven’t tried it yet but it looks like he was right again,

Well done again on the result.

Cheers Mann, your spot on, our buddy was right again , Hadn't been out in ages and was itching to go, some crack with the congers on the light gear as we were after Whiting, Hope you are feeling better soon, plenty of hot whiskies ,

Regards

SEamus

Well done lads, terriffic fishing layers are great,,,,,,,,,,,,till you need to pee

Well done lads, terriffic fishing layers are great,,,,,,,,,,,,till you need to pee

We great crack,, As for the layers, i was tying more than blood knots on the night