Clare 1/05/2011
Wed May 04, 2011 12:47 am
People: Me & Bassmania
Duration: 1pm to 5.30pm
Tide: Incoming
Weather: Hot & Sunny with strong easterly
Bait: Fresh Lug & Sandeel
Rigs: 2 hook
Results: Me - 1flounder, Bassmania - 2 Flounder
Report: Sorry only getting this report up now, we decided to take a trip to clare at the weekend. Hit down to our lug mark first and got some great quality lug. At this point we checked out one mark but decided on another mark that has been good to us in the past
There was a bit of a gale blowing up at this point and blowing in the wrong direction 
but we said we'd plough on. Got to the mark and had an initial bit of 'Oh f€&k it' as we thought we could see weed in the water, but thankfully it was not as bad as we thought so up we set and started the hunt. Despite the wind i was still hopeful for a silver fella, after an hour and countless passerby's asking question after question my optimism was starting to rattle when Bassmania left a yelp out, fish on, we could see a fish break the surface in the distance then things went a little light, eventually up popped a wee flounder that was foul hooked 
Blank saved for himself I hate to say it but it looked like a good fish was lost, not sure what it was but it put a good bend in the rod, there is no way the wee flounder put that bend there. A few minutes after all that excitement I spotted one of my rods take a bit of a knock, left it sit for a while then i said i give it a check and up popped a chunky wee flounder that weighed in at 1lb. A couple of more lads turned up towards the top of the tide, and the lad above me had a small schoolie, so hopes picked up again should have left the hopes where they were because outside of Bassmania getting another wee flounder things never took off for us, but hey blanks were saved and it was good to get out
Duration: 1pm to 5.30pm
Tide: Incoming
Weather: Hot & Sunny with strong easterly
Bait: Fresh Lug & Sandeel
Rigs: 2 hook
Results: Me - 1flounder, Bassmania - 2 Flounder
Report: Sorry only getting this report up now, we decided to take a trip to clare at the weekend. Hit down to our lug mark first and got some great quality lug. At this point we checked out one mark but decided on another mark that has been good to us in the past
There was a bit of a gale blowing up at this point and blowing in the wrong direction but we said we'd plough on. Got to the mark and had an initial bit of 'Oh f€&k it' as we thought we could see weed in the water, but thankfully it was not as bad as we thought so up we set and started the hunt. Despite the wind i was still hopeful for a silver fella, after an hour and countless passerby's asking question after question my optimism was starting to rattle when Bassmania left a yelp out, fish on, we could see a fish break the surface in the distance then things went a little light, eventually up popped a wee flounder that was foul hooked Blank saved for himself I hate to say it but it looked like a good fish was lost, not sure what it was but it put a good bend in the rod, there is no way the wee flounder put that bend there. A few minutes after all that excitement I spotted one of my rods take a bit of a knock, left it sit for a while then i said i give it a check and up popped a chunky wee flounder that weighed in at 1lb. A couple of more lads turned up towards the top of the tide, and the lad above me had a small schoolie, so hopes picked up again should have left the hopes where they were because outside of Bassmania getting another wee flounder things never took off for us, but hey blanks were saved and it was good to get out
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Re: Clare 1/05/2011
Wed May 04, 2011 8:10 am
id say it was fairly flat with those disastous winds,,,,,,,,,,,,,not leaving till next monday 
,,,good to see you out
,,,good to see you out
Re: Clare 1/05/2011
Wed May 04, 2011 8:23 am
Session could have been better but a fine flounder by shay. Well done 
. Next seesion shall be mine 
. Next seesion shall be mine
Re: Clare 1/05/2011
Wed May 04, 2011 8:30 am
blank saved the main thing and good sized flounders aswell! 
tightlines
fergal
tightlines
fergal
Re: Clare 1/05/2011
Wed May 04, 2011 9:54 am
i never realised david Baddiel was a memeber of the site
Re: Clare 1/05/2011
Wed May 04, 2011 10:48 pm
saving private brian wrote:id say it was fairly flat with those disastous winds,,,,,,,,,,,,,not leaving till next monday
Cheers Brian, yeah there was a fairly poor surf around but still it was great to get out
Bassmania wrote:Session could have been better but a fine flounder by shay. Well done
Ah monsieur mac, a feel a challange coming on
fishy1987 wrote:blank saved the main thing and good sized flounders aswell!
tightlines
fergal
Cheers Fergal, great to save the blank
chenz116 wrote:i never realised david Baddiel was a memeber of the site
Oh man, i'm off for a shave and a run
