wexford marks 16-01-10

People: Myself and Ken

Duration:6pm - midnight

Place: Wexford

Tide: rising, then falling

Weather: good

Bait: lug, mack, squid, mussell

Rigs: pulleys and 3 hook flappers.

Results:ken: flounder, shore rockling
Me: shore rockling, codling,coalfish...

The Report:
Ken had asked if I wanted to venture down to wexford, so after rustlin up some bait, headed off down, aiming for ballinoulart.... got there and the surf looked great!!! Looks can be deceivin though...
grass and debris just constantly kept wrappin around our lines, draggin em down the beach... we were bringin in more bait than we were puttin out with lumps of broken razor and mini mussels covering our rigs, at one stage I even reeled in to find a huge black lug wrapped around my swivel, not one of my worms....Ken managed to find a flounder attached to his rig, so no blank for him.... I rang saltydog for advice on the beaches but he said if one was weedy, most of em would be , so I decided for the lesser option, Cahore, as thought the headland would block alot of the debris washin about..
got there, ken quickly got a shore rockling, myself still blanking, then I started to get fish, well, baby fish, what I thought were whiting but now think were light coloured coalfish, shore rocking and a tiny, somewhat ugly codling...in the end had 4 coalfish, 2 rockling and a codling...
A long way to go for such a small yield, but it's always nice to get out....
tight lines folks...
hopefully my next report shall be sporting Cod like the Ennerielly beast up here , well done man..

daire

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Hi Daire,

Nothing worse that weed at least ya didn't blank thats the main thing!
Your right about the coalfish by the way going by your last pic, they can easily be confused at that size

Shame about the weed but at least you didn't blank.
I think that might be a 5 bearded rockling and not a shore rockling.

nice one daire,sure beats a blank! the weed this weekend was a b***H all right, but at least ye were getting bait all we were getting was plastic and rope!!

cheers lads, yeah,he had 5 beards but I thought so did shore rocklings, those little fellas should all come with name badges attached..
At one stage the surf I was standin in Rolled back to sea, to leave a huge chunk of hull, bout 4ft square at my feet, then the next wave took it away!! Also, alot of the weed was in fact grass, so I presume it was dunes and stream flotsam...

As far as I know Shore Rocklings have three beards.
The chevron pattern along the flanks of the fish is typical of the 5 bearded.
Shore rocklings are usually dark brown/reddish brown and dont display that pattern.
Hope that helps.

enerielly is a bit closer alright ,i wonder was it a bit cleaner,
you never mentioned the big rope i caught that fought hard for 5 minutes.