West Cork 10/6/10

People: me and the missus

Time: 13.00 to 19.00

Tide: 16.40

Rigs: Lures, paternoster, free lined bread.

Report:

Headed to a well known west cork mark today for some sun and some relaxing fishing, stopped at halfway on the way to pick up some frozen crabs for the wrasse. Started fishing about 13.00 itss amazing the missus seems to have a fetish for tiny pollack as she duly landed two as i was struggling with the wrasse, used up all the crabs and lost 3 rigs done know what i was doing wrong . So i switched over to the lures for some pollack and to see if any macks were about zero macks, i got two tiny pollack, moved a little further down the rocks, i was using my light spinning rod rated to 60g with a abu garcia 40g Koster lure and 20lb power pro braid, i was starting to think that the plague of tiny pollack would continue until i got SMASHED and my heart almost jumped out of my chest, it turned out to be a pollack of 3lbs but i have never had one fight like this it was incredible, the light rod and braid transmitted every detail of the fight.........amazing a quick photo and back he went , left the rocks to try a mullet mark that proved successful last year, got there got the mullet feeding on bread but they kept swimming upto the hook bait, nudge it and move away any thoughts on this?? didnt hook up and headed home great day though brillaint company sun and some fish.

Tight lines.

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The only one worth photographing.

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Little small live hardbacks or rag are your best bets for wrasse Kev....

Ya i should have got some crabs from my local area , and kept those peelers for the bass (after the ban of course). Thanks for the tips

Strange down there were about 20 diving birds who continually dived for a good 4 hours?? Macks or maybe sprat or something smaller?

I fished for mullet a few times recently and with no previous experience i missed alot of mullet as they just mouthed the bread on the hook, spat it out and swam off. After a while of this happening i tried striking when they showed any interest and landed my first mullet ever. They don't seem to hook themselves at all so try striking. Looked like a nice day to be out anyway. Fair play on getting a few fish.

nice one wilky. a 3lb pollock on light gear must have been good fun , but the wee hardbacks are the way to go for the wrasse man. sometines it's the movement of their legs waving about that attracts the wrasse's attention . great fun on the float

Thanks ya il try the hard backs next time, ya the pollack gave an amazing fight, i thought it was going to be huge, but i was happy to land it with no net great fish to catch thought underrated on light gear, tight lines!

To be honest give limpets a go, you dont need to look for long to get them ive used them and had great sucess on them, but if it is handier getting the crabs get the crabs.

Halfway tackle is a great spot. Could spend all day in that place

As for mullet, if they are not taking bread freely on the surface your might need to do some ground baiting, bread with mackeral mashed up with a bit of water can throwing that out.

To be honest give limpets a go, you dont need to look for long to get them ive used them and had great sucess on them, but if it is handier getting the crabs get the crabs.

Halfway tackle is a great spot. Could spend all day in that place

As for mullet, if they are not taking bread freely on the surface your might need to do some ground baiting, bread with mackeral mashed up with a bit of water can throwing that out.

Cheers for the reply, ya halfway is great il be in there tomorrow for new waders and life jacket