Wexford Hounds 10 June 2011

People:Barry, Crevan, Pat and Myself.

Duration:7pm - 1am

Tide:Rising

Weather:Calm with a fresh South Westerly

Bait:Fresh and Frozen Crab

Rigs:Pennel pulley with 3/0- 4/0 hooks

Results: A lot of Hounds.




Report:

Right lets get the Hounds in, and out of our system for another year. Here we go :

Fresh and frozen peeler crab acquired, pennel pulley rigs tied, reels and line inspected it was time to convert a once non believer into a Hound Junkie....`

rsz_1dscf2014.jpg

The phone rings out, sleeping beauty, sorry Crevan must still be asleep, on we drive.
Myself and Barry arrive on location and get set up on the start of the rise. High water was into darkness and along with the calm sea conditions, the fishing looked promising. We both sent a juicy crab bait out after we dusted off the old bait fishing cob webs and slotted back into the old routine.

As I was running down the various bits of gear with I had with me, I noticed that the battery on my camera was fully charged but I had left the memory card at home....If you ever need an omen for a great nights fishing, well that is it. The internal memory is non existent on this camera BTW ( Fuji Film XP 30 )

On with the fishing, I managed to tempt 2 illegal bait robbers who were quickly released back into the depths ( see ye next week ) Crevan arrived soon after and was visibly refreshed from his siesta.

History Lesson 101
Crevan is a Lure man by trade, bait fishing is not really his thing if the truth be known...as he informed us a few weeks ago when we mentioned a smoothie session.
Now I gave him a jolly good pep talk on the merits of bait fishing in relation to Smooth Hounds and their fighting ability in relation to our other local sea species etc. Anyway...... I dont think he was too too convinced, one will learn

Anyway no sooner did the sand man have his bait in the water, the cheeky fecker hooked and battled a Starry Smooth to the shore behind my back , which swung the scales over the 6lb mark. Fantastic fish, and the non believer now had a buzz even Red Bull couldn't match.
Unfortunately I did not have the memory card to grab a picture of the action, theres always tomorrow though.

A Man Converted
As I type, himself and the Interceptor ( Young Pat Gahan ) are back out again chasing the Hounds and I am led to believe he is wanting to accompany myself tomorrow night when I go chasing them. I wonder who has the bug now........

The Interceptor Arrives
Young Pat Gahan takes one for the team and donates a memory card to me just as the pack of Hounds come on the feed. As I set the camera up, rods begin to be lifted out of tripods left right and center......get some !!! ...this is what its all about.

The Main Event
As Hounds hunt in packs and generally don't hold back when attacking a food source you can understand the next 2 hours is a bit of a blur.The madness begun seeing Barry kick off proceedings with a fine fish ( don't know if it was weighed, too busy running up and down the beach taking pictures! )

Barry Hound A.jpg

I went back to check on my rod and noticed the line was way off its original location and the spool of the reel was looking a lot lighter. I tightened the drag and engaged the fish who fought well for its size and after a couple of minutes it broke the surface around 50 yards out in a semi jump tail walk effort. Great Buzz as Crevan and I watched it fight to the shore.

Pat was next to do battle with a fine Hound, the fish gave him a serious fight and brought him on a little walk up the beach!
The fish was eventually landed and hit the scales at 8lb as Pats eyes lit up

DSCF2028.JPG

Time for a double hook up as Crevan and Pat strike into another brace of fish a couple of hours off high water.
Time for a triple hook up, the baits were being attack as soon as they hit the sea bed at this stage, 3 rods arch over as the craic reaches fever pitch.

I put the camera down after this Hound was landed as it became a bit ridiculous running around with not a drop of Red Bull on board!

DSCF2046.JPG

We stayed until the top of the tide when the bites stopped as the pack had moved through. We used both fresh and frozen crab, which had similar results. Majority of fish were hooked at distance and takes varied from small plucks, slack lines to tripods being pulled over when drags were not set correctly. I have no idea how many we caught in total, as I lost count of the ones I caught after a couple of hours.

There is a few more pictures on the Blog if interested.

Danny.

You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.

Thats the way to do it Danny, great report and fab pics,,,now its off to the blog

wow i can just imagine the fight one of those would put up mean looking fish but attractive all the same!pictures should be in a magazine class fishing/report

Great report Danny.

great stuff lads well done i can feel a session comming over the next day or two

thats cheered me up

Im a big hound fan. Had a loud of crackers last year around the southeast area! Just wondering would u catch them during daylight on a flooding tide? its a pain wen the coleman runs out of juice wen there is good fish to be had....

Im a big hound fan. Had a loud of crackers last year around the southeast area! Just wondering would u catch them during daylight on a flooding tide? its a pain wen the coleman runs out of juice wen there is good fish to be had....

its a pain when the coleman runs out of juice when there is good fish to be had....

Maybe invest in a head torch

Nice fishing Danny, better than messing around with those silvers

Brilliant report/fishing danny,i love the first picture think it's going to be my new screensaver for a while

super fishing mate it about time the big ones showed up well done

Brilliant fishing and great report well done

What a super session and a fantastic report. I am so jealous.

It looked like a " woof " night lol

regards

mick

if carlsberg done fishing ...................... well done lads great fishing

have never fished for hounds myself before but i can only imagine that this is as good as it gets....!!
crackin photos there of some great big smooth hounds! Great session lads

So jealous lads......absolutely class fishing. Thanks for including about the catch rate between the fresh and frozen peeler- that often haunts me after a poor smoothie session if I couldnt get my hands on fresh crab.Great result

Super report Danny. Just wish I could see the pics on my phone:(

Every year danny, ye make me jealous this time every year...!!!

Super stuff...! Never caught one, must give it a lash this year. If I can just drag myself away from
the silver fellas for a while....! Should have tried it in the last few weeks while the ban was on.

Every year danny, ye make me jealous this time every year...!!!

Super stuff...! Never caught one, must give it a lash this year. If I can just drag myself away from
the silver fellas for a while....! Should have tried it in the last few weeks while the ban was on.

I think if you have a few nice hounds you'll be dragging yourself away from them instead of the Bass


Fair Play Danny, Still only catching pups in Wicklow, fingers crossed the bigger boys won't be far behind