kilcoole

People:myself and son

Duration:8pm-1am

Tide:rising

Weather:cold and clear

Bait:lug squid mac

Rigs:2 hook flappers

Results:dabs whiting rockling




Report:headed for graystones but competition on there so went to kilcoole. we started to set up our gear only to find josh had left the crossbars of his tripod on graystones beach two nights earlier.I left him to continue setting up while i went back to look for them on the off chance I could find two small bars on a large beach.luckily one of the lads in the competition had found the bottom piece,so he used that to lean the rods on.thanks lads. first cast produced a fat dab-flounder(never can tell the difference)about 1lb.caught 6 more plus some small whiting and a rockling.To top off the night we went back to graystones to look for josh,s top bar and found it near some weed.

That was myself that had the cup section from your tripod. Glad you found the top section too, nice! The fishing was tough on the South Beach with mostly Coalies being taken. One of the lads also had a nice sized dab too. Hopefully the codling will pop in for a visit soon

i was up the far end ASLEEP

lucky save with the tripod man easiest way to tell if you have a dab is to rub the skin from back to front on it . if it feels rough like sand paper it's a dab. and if smoothe and slimey most likely a flounder hope this helps for the future man

glad he got his gear.not easy to find stuff on beaches wen u leave it behind,it sounds like he using the shakespeare tripod

i think we were just arriving in kilcoole when u were leaving well done on the tripod you were very lucky to get it all back much the same type of fishing after u left some decent sized fish there in kilcoole suprised me