Red Bay - Thursday, 19th August

After a very long drive, having stopped off to buy lug in Carrickfergus (highly recommended and good value), I started fishing on a rising tide. Weather was initially warm but breezy. I had intended to fish after dark but the rain put paid to that.

I'll get my whinge out of the way first. The rock mark was an absolute f**king disgrace (see picture). All kinds of litter left by other anglers so I spent 10 mins gathering up as much as I could and putting a match to the combustible stuff.

First hour I got lots of bites and three smallish codling. Two pan sized. After that things slackened off but I ended up with two more codling, a small pollack and a tiny coalie.


Duration: 15:30 to 20:30

Weather: dry and windy then wet and windy

Bait: lug & mackerel

Results: 5 codling, 1 pollack and 1 coalfish

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fair play for tidying up the rubbish! i have done the same on many occasions. it makes you wonder how bad these places would get if it wasnt for a few decent anglers tidying up!

keep up the good work!

nice fishing there mate.its not uncommon to see xxxx like that left at fishing marks any more.the foreigners have one down the road from me left like a dump.absolute no respect.i thinkl the litter wardens now have to concentrate on places like these as well as town streets

We were at a mark at the weekend very close to where you were.

We tidied a bit on the Friday. When we went back the next morning it was nearly as bad as before we left it. Exactly the same thing happened on Saturday night. We left a mark tidy at teatime. Others moved in while we were away getting fed & topping up on bait. When we moved back after they left the place was a tip. 12 empty cans of beer, 2 plastic off-licence bags & 3 empty plastic bait bags.

On both occassions the only others fishing were locals, not FNs.

I just packed in trout fishing in the carrickfergus decal lakes because of the rubbish some mindless bas***ds leave. At least at this shore fishing you can find your own tidy marks, away from the well known ones that you can have to yourself. I like to chill out, fresh sea air, and no crap blowing around my feet!!!

All you should leave is footprints!! its a shame that some people have no consideration!!

Well done mate, and also on the rubbish. My over run Mark at dunseveric is the same and my daughter is the first to get a bag and pick it up. So to those who like dumping it my daughter will find you. Lol

fair play to you matefor gathering up the rubbish. It P*sses me rite off seeing it. We try to fish marks that involves a walk as that deters litter louts from fishing it. It only takes one person to get us all a bad name!!

Nice fish, shame about the mess though. Well done on cleaning it up.