Embarrassed by girl friend

Well, I've had my second fishing trip with my girl friend this summer.
We fished the East pier in Dun Laoghaire on Saturday 25th June 2005.
High tide was at about 3 in the afternoon.
We started fishing at about 11.
We started fishing into the sea ward side of the pier at the elbow where a small jetty sticks out into the sea.
Conditions were not comfortable so we went to the top of the pier and fished into the harbour.
We were floating rag on a size 1/0 hook starting with a depth of about 4 foot and increasing it as the tide rose ending up with a depth of about 8 or 9 foot.
It was a dull, warm and very breezy day.
The water was fairly calm in the harbour.
The girl friend caught 7 fish and I caught 4.
I caught 4 small pollack; all under a pound.
She caught 4 small pollack, 2 small wrasse and 1 lovely sized wrasse that was between 2 1/2 to 3 pounds.
I couldn't believe it.
I turned around to look at her only to see her rod buckled over like the letter n.
At first I was sure she was caught in kelp.
Then I heard the spool giving off line.
I said "are you in?"
"Yeah" she said with a smile the width of her face which was now glowing like a fluorescent light bulb.
I had to land it for her as she thought the rod was going to snap.
I should invest in a drop net.
Anyway, it will be a while before I live this one down.
We finished up trying the sea ward side again right down the bottom or foot of the pier and of course she caught a pollack and I caught nothing.
I should have pictures in my personal gallery soon.

Pictures of the girlfriend ?

Nah .. Pictures of the Wrasse!!!!!

Consider your self lucky that your girlfriend has an interest in fishing as its good to have a mutual interest especially if you feel like traveling away for the weekend and fancy a bit of fishing as well.

Teaching my girlfriend how to flick a fly and she already has the technqiue took 2 hours and already can cast straight etc now the problem is she wants to have that old one last cast........................

No not the sage.....................

Neilus - Glad you included the last 4 words of that first sentence !
Sorry - no offence intended .

Yep - and teach her to do the unhooking as well - otherwise you'll spend all day dealing with hers and never get around to catching your own . Well , that's my experience anyway .
cheers
n/

teaching her to bait up her-self is the next project ,spent the winter teaching mine to unhook whiting !
Maybe kieran should have a gallery for members girlfriends/wives (with their fish of course) :lol: