North Wexford 31/07/10
Sun Aug 01, 2010 1:51 pm
People:Funtan, De Cochroche
Duration:8 pm - 4am
Tide:up & over high water
Weather:lovely calm evening
Bait:crab, lug & rag
Rigs:pulley pennels
Results:smooties, codling, tope, dogs
Report:Went to a beach where we heard there was hounds caught during the week. We weren't disappointed! On arrival we could see another angler returning a 5lb smoothie so confidence was high.
1st Cast Fintan had a gentle bite followed by a steaming run which produced the first smoothie of the night @ 5lb 9oz. I was next in on the action with a slackliner and another fish around the same size.
There was certainly a pack moving through as straight away both myself & Fintan fine runs and we both landed fish in the 5lb region at exactly the same time. Fishing died off then from about 11pm for 4 hours!! We had the occasional dog & codling during this time but no hounds so the packs had moved off somewhere else.
About 2:30 we were beginning to pack up, and we all decided to have one last cast, I was tidying away one rod when I heard the line screming on my other reel, looked around to see my good rod, just about to leave the tripoed & go water skiing so grabbed and struck followed by a brilliant scrap with the best firsh of the night @ 6lb 11
Next cast I'd a run straight away, which funnily enough was the best fishter of all, I was shouting to the lads that this was my specimen, he tore line off the reel several times during the fight & stayed deep all the way in, amazingly it was only 5lb 10, but a right little scrapper. P Diddy got a run straight away and landed a fish in the 5lb class, but didn't pose for a photo because his other rod was singing, (he should have, it was only an energetic dog).
I think I'd another hound after that, but then got a bit frustrated as having 4 casts in a row had me buried by fish in a snag that seemed to appear on the ebb tide.
Great nights shore sport & hope to get out to enjoy it again soon!
(Post Script: Just sent a txt to Gordie to see how he got on last night - "8 glasses of full bodied red wine, biggest half a pint"
)
Duration:8 pm - 4am
Tide:up & over high water
Weather:lovely calm evening
Bait:crab, lug & rag
Rigs:pulley pennels
Results:smooties, codling, tope, dogs
Report:Went to a beach where we heard there was hounds caught during the week. We weren't disappointed! On arrival we could see another angler returning a 5lb smoothie so confidence was high.
1st Cast Fintan had a gentle bite followed by a steaming run which produced the first smoothie of the night @ 5lb 9oz. I was next in on the action with a slackliner and another fish around the same size.
There was certainly a pack moving through as straight away both myself & Fintan fine runs and we both landed fish in the 5lb region at exactly the same time. Fishing died off then from about 11pm for 4 hours!! We had the occasional dog & codling during this time but no hounds so the packs had moved off somewhere else.
About 2:30 we were beginning to pack up, and we all decided to have one last cast, I was tidying away one rod when I heard the line screming on my other reel, looked around to see my good rod, just about to leave the tripoed & go water skiing so grabbed and struck followed by a brilliant scrap with the best firsh of the night @ 6lb 11
Next cast I'd a run straight away, which funnily enough was the best fishter of all, I was shouting to the lads that this was my specimen, he tore line off the reel several times during the fight & stayed deep all the way in, amazingly it was only 5lb 10, but a right little scrapper. P Diddy got a run straight away and landed a fish in the 5lb class, but didn't pose for a photo because his other rod was singing, (he should have, it was only an energetic dog).
I think I'd another hound after that, but then got a bit frustrated as having 4 casts in a row had me buried by fish in a snag that seemed to appear on the ebb tide.
Great nights shore sport & hope to get out to enjoy it again soon!
(Post Script: Just sent a txt to Gordie to see how he got on last night - "8 glasses of full bodied red wine, biggest half a pint"
)
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Re: North Wexford 31/07/10
Sun Aug 01, 2010 1:56 pm
sounds like a good nights fishing, well done lads, sitting here in the middle of the country with serious withdrawal symptoms myself 
Re: North Wexford 31/07/10
Sun Aug 01, 2010 2:15 pm
Well done lads, great report and pics,,,,,and I thought I was out late 
Re: North Wexford 31/07/10
Sun Aug 01, 2010 2:24 pm
great pictures and lovely session, well done lads
Re: North Wexford 31/07/10
Sun Aug 01, 2010 2:29 pm
Great report and some nice hounds 
and fair play to Fintan too
and fair play to Fintan too
Re: North Wexford 31/07/10
Mon Aug 02, 2010 6:18 pm
Love them hounds!!! Nice fish Alby!
Re: North Wexford 31/07/10
Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:58 pm
savage fishing lads, well done
Re: North Wexford 31/07/10
Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:07 pm
great session lads thay are cracken hounds
Re: North Wexford 31/07/10
Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:50 pm
well done lads crackin fish great report.
Re: North Wexford 31/07/10
Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:58 pm
well done lads great fishing
feet on him like boots
is that not meant to be boats 
nice well fitting waders on the both of you, nothing worse than a bad fitting pair of waders on a scrawney fella
feet on him like boots
is that not meant to be boats nice well fitting waders on the both of you, nothing worse than a bad fitting pair of waders on a scrawney fella