Wicklow beach, 30-05-10

People:me, fishface, Conor

Duration:7-11pm

Tide:rising

Weather:fine,mild, dry

Bait:rag ,mack, squid, crab

Rigs:1+2 hook clipped down, flappers

Results:dabs ,whiting, doggies, starrry smoothound




Report:Another painful beating for me by Fishface,what can I say ,i tried everything but he caught not one, but 2 starry smoothounds. Not that they gave him much of a scrap,his arms werent exactly aching afterwards,,,but they were smoothies,which we were targeting . I'm only saying this in jest of course,it was a pleasure really,a beautiful evening with dozens of fish caught,what more could one ask for(a smoothie for me maybe>,even a tiddler like Fishface caught,not that i'm jealous or anything ,life is so unfair sometimes ).He brought along a workmate,young Conor, who caught a half dozen doggies with his telescopic rod,well done. His next lesson will be him getting to grips with the said doggies himself.We were catching from the off, Neil getting Dabs by the dozen ,myself getting mostly dogs, with small dabs and whiting in close on the small rod. Rag on its own outfished all other baits.I would have loved to add a smoothie to the list, but i'll have to wait til next time. We finished up at 11pm, nice night . I've taken the decision reluctantly to crop Fishfaces smoothie pic as I dont want to give away the location of a mark thats throwing up such fine smoothies . I've had over 20 fish each session here the last few times and its a far cry from my last few trips to Bray Harbour,,,,, the last few sessions i've had there were really hard work,,,,2 sessions,4 hours each ,with 2 fish each time,,,,,,,,,,,met Paddy from the site whos from Wexford on Thursday who kindly gave me some peelers,thanks Paddy. Worth mentioning that when he reeled in his final cast he asked me to hold the rod as there was weed caught in the top eye and he wanted to hand line the fish up. We looked down into the water, and in the light of his headlamp we could see 2 doggies swimming around the base of the pier side by side,,,,only one was hooked,the other had followed him in,lovely seeing the two of them swimming around in circles under us .The hooked one was quickly released to rejoin his mate. I caught my 2 flounder there on the peeler on Sat night,thanks again Paddy

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fairplay to ya mate i always find your reports a great read keep it up

Good sesion eyes, hopefully the smoothies will oblige on your next trip

That was some mighty fishing Eyes well done. Great report and good pictures too.

Crackin report Dave. Love the wee smoothie Neil bet he was a scrapper

Crackin report and pics as usual, big well done lads.

Great report and pics. Interesting the first flounder pic is a left hander.

Davy

did you have crab dave , cos i had none, but will have crab for tomorrow

You pair are going to have to quit bitching and learn to share your toys.

well done on the smut and thay are nice flounder too

Well done Dave, Neil and Conor.
I love the first picture. I've been there before, must try and get a race down in the summer and meet up with you's for a session. I'll PM you closer to the time and see if you's are free. Sooner rather than later if Neil's monster smoothie is anything to go by I bet he had some fight to get that brut in! Not to worry, size isn't everything
Your report was brilliant to read as always Dave, nice one mate.

Thanks all, replied to you all but lost it somehow ,I still have hope of a smoothie,,,,there are still monsters out there ,,,,,,,,,as proved by Fishface again tonight when he sent me this pic

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ce one guys, hopefully that will be the start of you's hauling in the hounds