East Coast - 17/08/10

People:Me, my brother and my mum ...

Duration:8pm to 6am

Tide: every stage

Weather:wet

Bait:peeler, mack, sandeel, razor, rag and lug

Rigs:various

Results:1 nice little ray and 1 bull huss


Report:

After a tope expedition that has been proven succesfull (not in size but in number), decided to continue chasing my next target:ray ...

Despite a wet and windy weather, hit the mark set up, and to my surprise, was in a ray on my second cast ... A nice little thornie ...Not a monster but a ray after all ...

After this good start, everything went quiet and the doggies start feeding in force and we quickly got 47 of them ... Just before packing up, got a good bite and landed a nice surprise ... An 8lbs bull huss ...

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Great stuff indeed and weldone on the Tope results!!

great session well done that a nice huss for the east coast

Well done Frenchie,you are certainly puttin the mileage in and the hours,great results and next up for ya a Specimen Bass .Heading down that way this evening.looking forward to it

Excellent stuff! Nice Huss. 47 dogs! Dont tell Peter. He will go mad

47 doggies all I want is one of them this year and can't get one

nice huss - that is some doggie count 47 - its a wonder you stayed long enough to catch the huss!!!

i know northsiders get nervous when they cross the liffey please tell me your mum was fishing and not minding yus and if she was howd she do

tetley make those rays only thing is ive been usuing them for tea bags all joking aside a species that your after still counts well done and that huss is a cracker

I need to say that depsite the size of the huss, I m more happy with the ray (and I think it's not a baby, she is only a dwarf ray, so for me she counts like a bigger one),as I have put a lot of hours trying catching one not too far from home in the past few weeks ... Hope to get her mama next time ...

Well I have caught some nice fish in the middle of doggie feeding frenzie, that's why I'm always staying despite being quickly bored, and this huss was really worth the hassle...

@ roger: Yes my mum is fishing ... She has been employed at minding the dog, taking photos, preparing lunch . But now she is well hooked. She helped building the score with 8 doggies. Lot of fun, but she missed her local smoothies (She got a nearly 7 lbs hound this year) ...

Here's a few pictures of the Dwarf Tope too

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well done on the ray small but lovely

well done mate on the ray and the huss

Well done Aurelien, that was some session,10 hours are you related to Al and Jordan ,i'm going to start bringing my Ma with me,,and that Tope is a monster compared to the one I caught and claimed as a new species ,as the man says, a species is a species, and can make a session memorable,,,,,,and oh yeah,the Huss isnt bad either,well done again
Dave

well done on the ray small but lovely

Cheers Matt ... Small but beautiful marks on her, pure white belly, really beautifull ...

Here's a few pictures of the Dwarf Tope too

Thanks for the photos ... Now we got the dwarf tope sub-specie we need to go back for the normal ones

well done mate on the ray and the huss

Thanks ...

Well done Aurelien, that was some session,10 hours are you related to Al and Jordan ,i'm going to start bringing my Ma with me,,and that Tope is a monster compared to the one I caught and claimed as a new species ,as the man says, a species is a species, and can make a session memorable,,,,,,and oh yeah,the Huss isnt bad either,well done again
Dave

This week end it has been something like 10 hours saturday after Tope with Peterk19 and Jayball10 and 10 hours monday with the family after ray ... Even if we didn't get any good sized tope, nobody blank, we got the species that we were after and we even get a bonus bass (dwarf as well ) ... For the ray, the same it was the target and we got it ...The huss was a very nice surprise ... and as you say some species no matter the size can make a session memorable ... Next will be to find bigger fish and try to avoid doggies ...

Oh i meant to say that a mate looked at the pictures of the marks the tope reckons they are not from a bite but from being tangled in a net he has seen the similar marks on Bass, Cod and Doggies

Oh i meant to say that a mate looked at the pictures of the marks the tope reckons they are not from a bite but from being tangled in a net he has seen the similar marks on Bass, Cod and Doggies

He was bitten by a vampire fish!

Next will be to find bigger fish

Most definatley. We gotta do something with the 5 million mackerel I have in my freezer!