Inside Cork Habour 08/01/11

People:Me

Duration:4.30pm to 7.30pm

Tide:HW at 7.30pm

Weather:North Westerly Wind and biting cold

Bait:Razor and Peeler

Rigs:Puller Pennel with a second dropper above it

Results:12 Codling and 1 Coalie




Report:
Arrived at the mark with a good north westerly breeze churning up a nice surf. The water looked very murky and weedy and I was a bit concerned that it would end up unfishable. It was about three hours to high water and I spent the first one asking myself the usual question ‘Was that a bite’ I changed bait after an hour and put on a nice juicy peeler crab on the pulley rig, cast out and the bait had hardly settled on the bottom when the rod literally doubled over! The fight was great and I almost thought I was in to one of those bass I’ve been reading about! Ended up a lovely codling – a personal best for me at just under three and a half pound! I have no tape but my box is 40cm long in the picture below. It seemed to just switch on after that and I spent the next two hours catching a load of codling and a solitary coalie. There were a few bigger ones this time and I took home the ones below for the table. Great craic but bloody freezing!

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tasty fishing marty some nice codling there

well done marty. i was at a mark in east cork for the ssame duration and drew another blank. conditions were nice. got plenty knocks but de nada.

nice fishing man the 3 smaller one's would be classed as the big fish up here in the north well jealous

Thanks lads. The father in law is coming down from Belfast next Thursday mad to catch a cod! Hope there are still some around .

nice one man, good session
i love codling

would love a wee session like that from the shore up here! very nice

nice codling well done

Sounds like a nice session, well done, good luck to you on your next outing!

great result well done