East Co. Cork Report 4/5 Jan

[I Love Sea Fishing]

Well i decided for my birthday and Christmas present i would like a good old fashion fishing trip, after seeing various reports of lost of Cod coming from this area i decided this is where i would like to go!

4th Jan

Well arrived at the particular mark with bait in hand supplied from Waterford Angling and Outdoor (great shop), we got Lug and crab, first chuck got a small but welcome little pin whiting, went absolutly dead for ages, thought great all the way from tullamore for this! As darkness fell the fish soon came, with a rockling first to readily snatch my dads bait, after that it all kicked off, plenty of small undersize codling coming out, the biggest of that night was 2 and a half of the length of a Coke can, the nearest thing on the floor to guage it by, that was it for that night really.

5th Jan

Arrived back at the same mark with the same bait from the same shop haha, this time though there was a couple of lads down there from the site, you know who you are haha, great laugh, First cast on both rods, i hit 2 snags, bummer! Well fishing was even slower this time round, with the tide slightly lighter and the air fresher i expected better results, got one small rockling to start the party off again, hour or so later my dad gets a gentle pull, then a wicked slack liner, tea down, arse in gear, jumps up and strikes in, quite a good weight on the end, must be a cod he thought......Not to be! Up comes a Massive 2-2.5lb Flounder, like a dinner plate it was! Certainly suprised me anyway, fishing was still really slow, i got a little knock pulled it in with a nice little codling undersize so back it swam. After this still completly dead, getting bites however, mainly from the species known as crab fish haha, well now we had ran out of bait, so dad packs up, ive still got one rod out, then the lads next to us managed a Good sized Codling which was good, and very kindly of them they offered me some of there bait as they was packing up to, so i whack out for my last cast, tide really strong now, i manage to anchor down at distance.... 5 mins later Ping.. rod tip goes skyward, straight in pretty good fight and out comes a 3lbish Codling, Yipee trip not wasted!, i thought one more cant hurt, whack out again, same place, BANG in again, reeling as hard as my skinny little arms will allow, reel creaking like bitch, the fool that i am i stop reeling and pull, within seconds im snagged in the kelp, so a sweet sour situation as part of me cant help but wonder what was on the end. Either way i couldnt have done without the Dublin Lug gifted to me!

Pictures Attached

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Last edited by I Love Sea Fishing on Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:16 am, edited 1 time in total.

Ahh i cant upload them there too big, Help? lol

nice one lads, that sounds like a wopper flounder good stuff
what bait was he got on? lug i take it?

yup lug tipped with razor

Upload them to Photobucket and then you can add the links.

Well done lads, ya need to be in it to win it, good stuff, nice fish!

2 great fish in the pictures there, well done.

good man jake 2 nice fish for your travels

Good to see you picked up 2 good fish..

crackin fish in both pics .well done.download www.pixresizer.com and u shud be able to downsize pics no problem

well done least it was not a blank that dublin lug done the trick for u was nice to meet the two of yous

2 cracking fish there man

cheers guys!

Two nice fish mate like the cod, I do not fish for flounder, but that one looks a real good one, well done the trip was worth it.

Regards Wez

Nice fishing. 2 nice fish there, especially the flounder

Wow! That flounder in the picture is a cracking fish, well done, great fishing

well done lads

Was thinking of putting that Flounder in for the Shimano Mission, Im not sure how it works for the shore?

2 fine fish there well done and happy birthday

nice big fish

plenty of eating there