North Antrim Pier Pressure 02/04/11
Sat Apr 02, 2011 11:23 pm
People: Dan and Drew
Duration: 6pm - 8pm
Tide: Appeared to be rising
Weather: Rain, Hail, by the bucketload.
Bait: Ragworm, Mackeral, Black Lug
Rigs: Loops, DDP
Results:
2 Codling, 2 Coalfish, 1 Flounder, 1 Plaice, 1 Dogfish
Report:
Decided to give the North Coast a run tonight for the first time with myself driving, and Danny as co pilot. Pretty uneventful trip up except for me sh*t*n a brick during my first journey on the M2!
Got to the venue for about 6pm and got a rod each set up, just in time for the thunder/lightning/rain/hail to start, so a 15 minute retreat to the car was in order, with the rods in view at least we'd see if something huge pulled them off the rests. The rain eased briefly and spurred us into a bait check, 2 heavy rods indicated a fish a piece, a small Plaice for Daniel and a 25cm Flounder for me.
So got the rods rebaited just in time for the next downpour, which sounded more like driving under a waterfall, with torrential rain and marbel sized hail. 10 minutes later and it had eased, I had a "stuff it moment", I was there to fish, so the rain wasn't going to put me back into the car again, Battoned down the hatches on the Floatation jacket and went back down, this time Dan had a Coalfish and I got a nice surprise a daytime Dogfish!
Stuck a bigger loop onto the Evo and sent it as far as I could, rewarded with a Codling while Dan hooked another coalfish closer in. Dan was soaked through, and had enough, so with that I set about packing my gear down, Reeled the SK Bass in for the last time to find a small codling lightly hooked and quickly released.
On the way down the road we stopped off to see how the GADSAC was getting on at Waterfoot beach, Seemed to be a lot of Coalies and Flounders coming in, Had a yarn with the Harrys and Round Ourway and it was time to head on down, Stopped at Glenarm car park, saw a few beach buddies there, but just then the heavens opened again and we thought better of going down to a soaking yarn!
Anyway, another great night up the coast, and glad to see Dan ticking Plaice of this years species list!!!
Drew
Duration: 6pm - 8pm
Tide: Appeared to be rising
Weather: Rain, Hail, by the bucketload.
Bait: Ragworm, Mackeral, Black Lug
Rigs: Loops, DDP
Results:
2 Codling, 2 Coalfish, 1 Flounder, 1 Plaice, 1 Dogfish
Report:
Decided to give the North Coast a run tonight for the first time with myself driving, and Danny as co pilot. Pretty uneventful trip up except for me sh*t*n a brick during my first journey on the M2!
Got to the venue for about 6pm and got a rod each set up, just in time for the thunder/lightning/rain/hail to start, so a 15 minute retreat to the car was in order, with the rods in view at least we'd see if something huge pulled them off the rests. The rain eased briefly and spurred us into a bait check, 2 heavy rods indicated a fish a piece, a small Plaice for Daniel and a 25cm Flounder for me.
So got the rods rebaited just in time for the next downpour, which sounded more like driving under a waterfall, with torrential rain and marbel sized hail. 10 minutes later and it had eased, I had a "stuff it moment", I was there to fish, so the rain wasn't going to put me back into the car again, Battoned down the hatches on the Floatation jacket and went back down, this time Dan had a Coalfish and I got a nice surprise a daytime Dogfish!
Stuck a bigger loop onto the Evo and sent it as far as I could, rewarded with a Codling while Dan hooked another coalfish closer in. Dan was soaked through, and had enough, so with that I set about packing my gear down, Reeled the SK Bass in for the last time to find a small codling lightly hooked and quickly released.
On the way down the road we stopped off to see how the GADSAC was getting on at Waterfoot beach, Seemed to be a lot of Coalies and Flounders coming in, Had a yarn with the Harrys and Round Ourway and it was time to head on down, Stopped at Glenarm car park, saw a few beach buddies there, but just then the heavens opened again and we thought better of going down to a soaking yarn!
Anyway, another great night up the coast, and glad to see Dan ticking Plaice of this years species list!!!
Drew
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Re: North Antrim Pier Pressure 02/04/11
Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:04 am
Handy session there drew at least use got a few .......
Re: North Antrim Pier Pressure 02/04/11
Sun Apr 03, 2011 10:16 am
Not a bad result 4 a few hours guys 
Re: North Antrim Pier Pressure 02/04/11
Sun Apr 03, 2011 12:31 pm
bingham wrote:Not a bad result 4 a few hours guys
Cheers man... Literally only got an hour n halfs real fishing, weather was really dismal!!
Re: North Antrim Pier Pressure 02/04/11
Sun Apr 03, 2011 1:55 pm
well done drew nice session
Re: North Antrim Pier Pressure 02/04/11
Sun Apr 03, 2011 5:00 pm
Nice session 
Well done
Well done
Re: North Antrim Pier Pressure 02/04/11
Sun Apr 03, 2011 5:09 pm
pier pressure was it drew 
Re: North Antrim Pier Pressure 02/04/11
Sun Apr 03, 2011 11:01 pm
saving private brian wrote:pier pressure was it drew
It was pressure getting onto the damn thing to fish!
Re: North Antrim Pier Pressure 02/04/11
Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:04 am
fair play for giving it a lash man. sounds like the weather was grim enough 
Re: North Antrim Pier Pressure 02/04/11
Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:18 pm
Al and Jordan wrote:fair play for giving it a lash man. sounds like the weather was grim enough
Cheers Al, good to see them showing up during the day though!! =]
Re: North Antrim Pier Pressure 02/04/11
Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:18 pm
Sorry, double posted. *Mod Please Remove*