Turbo Turbot session

After meeting Lucky and taking a small part in his 4mark 20 hour session , with the good weather upon us I was rip roaring to go, especially as Lucky had given me a huge pile of bait .( really appreciated mate , especially the razor and lug that was dug by your own fair hands )
I took off to meet up with Paddylav and Doug only to find they had been fishing for an hour already (thanks lads ) but I had the last laugh coz with my first cast i must have knocked the turbot on the head and got the first fish of the morning a nice turbot about 40cm .
I was fishing one rod with a pulley rig on the end at distance , the other was firing out 2/3 hook flappers just into the surf , I decided the pulleys were a waste of time and used the flappers on the 2 rods , noticed the lug wasn't being touched either so i was loading the flappers mostly with sand eel or bluey ( all the fish were taken on either of these ) .
There were a few more anglers on the beach too but I never met them all as everybody was well spread out and Doug was roving the beach on account of the rod holder attached to the front of his Mitsubishi .
After the long winter I was giddy in the sunshine and myself and Paddy were like 2 big kids having the craic , I had another 2 turbot for the pot by now and Paddy had one himself ,unfortunately Paddy's girlfriend is practicing for married life and had him under order orders to be home so he had to go just as i was pulling out a double header of turbot , that was about one o'clock and after a while Doug pulled up in the jeep to tell me he was off too having blanked , must have been the duck egg he had for breakfast . I was on turbot number 9 by then and was determined to get to double figures and to hell with the sunstroke .
I didn't have much longer to wait when i saw the rod tip go , but this is not a happy ending coz when I tried to reel in NOTHING HAPPENED . My reel had given up and i had to wind the spool by hand , thank God i wasn't fishing at distance for ray , but I had fish number 10 , a wee undersize flounder .
So to recap I had 9 turbot 1 flounder Paddy had 1 turbot , 2 English lads (Dick and Clive) had 2 turbot 1 plaice, Another 2 dudes had 3 fish I think and there was at least 1 more turbot from angler unknown.
And thanks to Paddy for transporting me down the beach and dumping me where he thought I'd get nothing , couldn't have done it without you ya blonde bombshell

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lovely lookin fish mate well done

Some lovely Turbot there well done

sweet man well done what size is a big shore caught turbot

sweet man well done what size is a big shore caught turbot

maybe somebody can give an answer on that , I keep them if they're over 35cm

Cracking session that. Well done.

Nice Turbos

Great session some fine Turbots

ha peter .. i should have taken you up on the offer of sleeping in the dog kennell and then joining you on sunday... looks like a great day was had by all..... maybe this weekend if your free...... nice fish and photos......

great result peter some cracking turbot there. if only we got them that size up here

like al i wish i could get them that size!

were they all defo turbos no brill in amongst them!!!

some cracking turbot there mate nice session, and some nice pic's too well done

i hate ya! still one species that eludes me looking at that pic you could have been down under never mind sweet old ireland

like al i wish i could get them that size!

were they all defo turbos no brill in amongst them!!!

Definitely all Turbot

i hate ya! still one species that eludes me looking at that pic you could have been down under never mind sweet old ireland

Well at least you can say one species eludes you , I've a long list of elusive fish . And yeah mate when the sun shines here in Ireland it's hard to beat it

if i knew you were going to catch all them fish there i would of sent ya to the opposite side of the beach;
savage day, felt like doin a bit of streaking but il leave it for another day!

felt like doin a bit of streaking but il leave it for another day!

ah jesus paddy! put me off me dinner! nice one on the turbot peter!

brilliant fishing! well done

felt like doin a bit of streaking but il leave it for another day!

ah jesus paddy! put me off me dinner! nice one on the turbot peter!

love the streking on a sunny day,its not often tom gets a bit of sun!!!

Great result! Would love to catch one myself.
Cant get over the weather in the reports of the last few days!
Not sure about the streaking!!! The sunburn could be seriously painfull!!!!