Bray Harbour 03-01-10

People:me

Duration:5pm-10-30pm

Tide:low at 7pm approx

Weather:cold biting easterly wind,

Bait:mack and squid

Rigs:2 hook flappers

Results:2 codling, 4 whiting, 1 flounder




Report:Couldnt believe it when i arrived in Bray,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,no snow or ice anywhere ,,and me hardly able to get out from my own road in Clondalkin .

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I set up near the end of the pier with the tide still going out and settled into trying to watch for bites in the breeze, not my favourite occupation Didnt catch the first fish, a codling 24cms, till about 8-50pm, by which time some other headers, i mean anglers had arrived and set up , so i let out a whoop to celebrate my first tiddler of 2010. Yes i'm not ashamed to say it ,,,,,,,,,,i did celebrate all of his 24cms ,,,,,,and guess what ,,i even took a photo i was that chuffed. Only problem was that i hadnt got my usual camera with its dummy setting especially for me,,,,,,,,,I couldnt find it and had to bring my "good" one that confuses me to bits ,too many choices is a bad thing in my book(which unfortunately isnt the 2010 Sea Fishing Handbook ). Anyways we all started to catch a few fish with the tide rising, next came a couple of decent whiting, followed by a flounder. I was hoping to pick up a 5 bearded rockling at the low tide to add to the species list but it wasnt to be,,,,,at least for me ,,,,,but one of the other lads, whos off this site, showed me how to do it ,getting doubles and trebles Ended up with 7 fish which gets me off the mark for 2010,they werent exactly specimens, but there again Ted , its not exactly the 60's or 70's, so we can only catch whats out there.
Dave

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Thats a lovely photo with the snow dave real xmas card stuff ,your a brave man doing 5 and half hrs
on bray harbour with that n/easterly that was blowing it must have being bitterly cold ,fair play to u for
getting out and having a good nights fishin

Thats a lovely photo with the snow dave real xmas card stuff ,your a brave man doing 5 and half hrs
on bray harbour with that n/easterly that was blowing it must have being bitterly cold ,fair play to u for
getting out and having a good nights fishin

Thanks Gerry, that pic was taken with the "good" camera that i cant use, dont ask me what buttons i pressed, i downloaded the instructions off the net and now im even more confused .It was cold alright,,,,,,face and fingers were freezing but otherwise nice and toasty in the suit, only got cold when i had to take the hands out of the pockets. Fishing was really picking up as i was leaving and the moon was rising, but work the next day and all that

Nice dave takes more than artic weather conditions to put you off, ive been at home with the central heating on 24 hours a day id love to freeze for a few hours

well done eyes nice to see a few fish for the effort and sticking out the cold.great to see some pictures as well

eyes the first picture was superb,thought it was a xmas postcard .nice result despite the weather

nice one dave,thats a good start to 2010,and as you said you catch whats out there,it ain't the seventys

Well done Dave, a nice start to 2010.

dave hi we ended up staying till about half 12 fish kept cummim strong till we left no big uns though did get a seconed 5 bearded bigger but not by mutch a well at least we were out

Jesus Dave I don't want to be seeing pics of the South side of Dublin on here if you don't mind! I had a good few Five Beards last month so they are about. The slimy little whiting bait robbers!

nice one dave good to see you got the year off to a good start with a few spcies and pics too. like the lads said, you can only catch what's out there in front of you keep them coming man

Nice one good start to the year

Jesus Dave I don't want to be seeing pics of the South side of Dublin on here if you don't mind! I had a good few Five Beards last month so they are about. The slimy little whiting bait robbers!

Last month was last year

dave hi we ended up staying till about half 12 fish kept cummim strong till we left no big uns though did get a seconed 5 bearded bigger but not by mutch a well at least we were out

Hi Dave, nice to meet yis ,nothing worse than leaving when the fishing is picking up

Nice dave takes more than artic weather conditions to put you off, ive been at home with the central heating on 24 hours a day id love to freeze for a few hours

You just enjoy every hour with that new baby, in no time he'll be a toddler, then going to pre school, then big school, then communions, confirmations, secondary school, college ,tempus fugit

well done..nice selection of fish there!

great start to the year dave, good fishing mate.

Well done Dave for getting out in that weather and catching a few fish.
I think if I looked out my front door and saw that scene I would turn back and spend the night in front of the fire.