A east Cork Venue - 10/10/10 - COD

People: myself

Duration:6:30 - 9 pm

Tide:Big- 8pm FT

Weather: Calm and warm

Bait:crab

Rigs:Pennells (2/0 & 3/0) Pennell pulleys 2/0

Results: 9 coddling, 1 cod, 1 dog and 2 coalies


Report: Sometimes the gods smile on you and manage a session that is not a dream.
I hadn't planned to fish this weekend but fate intervened and I got some crab and went for a quick session in the hope of bagging some half decent coddling. Times and tide were perfect when I got to the venue. Not much happening until darkness but I picked up a couple of decent coalies ~35cm before it got dark and a small codling 1lb just at dusk. As the sun went down and the tide filled on came the coddling. A nice 2lber at first followed by a doggie, then a double on a pennel trace, then one at 3lb and another at ~2lb and just at full tide I had my first proper cod. The bite was not great but once I connected with him he stayed deep and tried to move against the tide and weed like he was on a mission. I kept the pressure up, but the slipped my gears on my Penn mag before I finally managed to beach the mother. I was happy as a pig in S**T, afters years of frustration I finally managed a cod (ie over 5lb) from the shore. I had 3 more up until 9pm when I called it a day as I was out of peelers. I have included some pics, unfortunately they all did not come out and some don't do the fish justice but I don't care I can finally tick the box regards cod. Its been about 10 years since I had a coddling session of that quality and I hope its not a flash in the pan, but this winter could be serious. My penn mag needs urgent repair but so what it was worth it.

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well done some nice codling reels can be fixed

Congrats on a great fishin' session.
Roll on the winter.

congrats on the cod/codling. could be plenty of fish and chips in your house for the next few days.

Well done - good to see a proper cod from the shore.
I was fishing an East Cork beach myself on Sunday night - aiming for bass as there was a great surf but got 8 codling, all a decent size too along with one fairly large coalfish.
It was from a beach which is more known for bass than cod (at least in recent years) so it looks like we could be in for a bumper cod season alright.

nice fishing.i bet cod was on yer dinner menu the next day

lovely fishing wish we got cod like that up here on the antrim coast, they look to be in great condition too

Well done that man, I hope this is a good portent for the coming winter cod bashing sessions.

nice one, i agree..have been getting a few codling up here in the last two weeks..good sign i hope!

nice cod there
going down to youghal on sat night

Well done drseafish.... beautiful sights there and a nice report to go with it...

Savage fishing, well done!
Tis on my to do list also... here's hoping we're in for some good fishing this winter!

you broke a penn 525 you must be related to fintan was it a new model or one of the old originals?p.s great fishing my mind has now tuned to winter speices even though i got a smoothy a few days ago,lets all say a prayer to the cod god ,let this be the year

SUPER SESSION NICE TO SEE THE CODLING IN NUMBERS HOPE IT A SIGN OF THING TO COME

Well deserved Kieran excellent fishisg

Well done, congrats on the decent codling,they look superb,,,,,,and especially on the cod from the shore,,,,,,,,,,,hope some of them make their way up this direction

excellent fishing man it's sessions like that, that make it all worth while