north antrimt beach 9th Sept

[polmac]

People: me, weedave and shane

Duration:10.30pm to 3.30am

Tide:

Weather:windy enough but dry

Bait: lug, sandeel and mack

Rigs: various

Results: dab, coalie, flounder and dog




Report:

Got a phone call from weedave to come and joing him and shane down at the beach for a bash.
I hadn’t been fishing on the shore since july due to family illness’s this past while and with everything back to normal I was champing at the bit to get back out again!

Headed down to the beach for about 10.30pm and trudged up the beach. Having played an hours indoor football before it, I was getting it bloody tight lugging all this equipment! Lol

Not a busy session for us all, with the wind playing havoc with the leads being dragged up the beach.
I landed a dab, my first one. A decent size, and was returned to the sea again.

Then an hour later, my rod got big knock, I thought it was a bass! I got all excited as I pulled it in, it was putting up a fight!

No! it was a bloody dog! ah well, it was returned safely again, despite my hatered towards it! Lol
A god evening craic, with me getting home at 4am, exhausted!

not the best pics as i was using my phone to take them

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Last edited by polmac on Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:10 am, edited 1 time in total.

better than nothing and you got out before the wind has hit

nice one on the dab

Nice one polmac, heading up that direction myself for a few days was hoping to get out tonight but with that wind theres a good chance I'll get blown off the beach!! Has anyone one had any great success over the last few days with that wind??

well done guys

nice dab - never saw it that night.

pity the dogs got you!!! i wondered why you legged it!!

dave

nice dab - never saw it that night.

pity the dogs got you!!! i wondered why you legged it!!

dave

it was my lack of sleep!

i tried ot sleep on the beach but the bloody sand kept blowing in my face

Thats a chunky lookin flounder there polmac, nice one.

Thats a chunky lookin flounder there polmac, nice one.

ahh fer feck sake, burst my bubble then!

Polmac I kinda wondered what was going on there when I saw Daves response?!?!?

Sorry, I studied the pic quite a bit afterwards... at first glance i just thought I saw a nice well made flounder, but I could be wrong??????? It looks like a flounder but the head was the thing that made me wonder had I got things totally wrong?

Nice flatty! Did you eat it?

naw i put it back in again. i dont tend to take anything i catch unless mackeral for bait and just put it all back in again.

weedaves faces were for somehting else lol

I am the same, catch and release everything except Macks

naw i put it back in again. i dont tend to take anything i catch unless mackeral for bait and just put it all back in again.

weedaves faces were for somehting else lol

lol the sad ones yes.

but i was laughing on the flounder/dab confusion - i recon your right on the dab going buy your description of the rough back.

dave