The Boys Head to Cork!!!

People:Tightlines & bro, Sparkey+1, Miami, Laurence, and Creep

Duration: 4pm-bloody late

Tide:low to high

Weather:beautiful and warm

Bait:everything

Rigs:everything

Results: Codling the codder codders

Well it’s a trip that has been on the cards for sometime and with recent catch reports coming from Cork hopes were high, we all hooked up around 11am with the final pick up around 12, and we were on route to Youghal, after 2.5 hours we arrived at our mark which Sean35 kindly went down to the night before to check it for weed and fish, and his report came back good. Tightlines and his bro would be arriving down a little later, giving us a chance to set-up and slag each other off, till then we got the lines out, prepared bait and rigs, then around 9pm the fish started to show Laurence was first in followed by Sparkey+1 and Tightlines and his bro!!! Most of the fish were around 2lbs or over, a pleasure to see compared to our East Coast whiting plague at present! Meanwhile yours truly and Miami were so far blanking... I stuck fresh bait on but a little too late I’m afraid as after 9:30pm only Laurence and Tightlines were still reeling in solitary fish. No matter what I tried, it seemed to fail, even the tackle box secret failed!!! And it was at this point I was looking at my lifeless rods hoping they would burst into a dance that I realized the horror of another blank!
Around 1:30am we started the slog home Sparkey and Laurence pleased with their catches and Miami and me down hearted…. So being tired, switched the sat nav on to take the easy way home…….what a mistake that was!!!! It pointed a route towards Waterford as being the quickest BUT the damn thing is completely out of date and didn’t know about the new motorways! Completely lost in the back roads of nowhere eventually to reach Dublin at 6am!! Still the lads went home with fish but not exactly pleased with the sightseeing tour of lower Waterford!! …. next trip Creeps Revenge!!
sorry about some fuzzy pictures when the cod were running there was heavy fog about





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Well I did offer to give you a quick lesson on how to catch fish......

Nice fishing lads, some nice Cod there...

Would of been a blessing to see the sign for Waterford instead of Carrick on suir!!!!!!!!! listen to your co pilot next time m8...... so when is Les Dawson meeting you to give you your prize......... BLANKETY BLANK cheque book and pen...... another one for the fireplace.... How many now????? As Tightlines said some are FISHING and we are CATCHING...... AH dinner was lovely m8.....

Looks like some mac bashers put the kudos on you

jeese kevin, you had a nightmare man all those cod getting caught around you and you going home fishless . your luck must be due a change soon
there must be an 8lb cod out there with your name on it man

@ Originalsin & Sparkey as I quote ........Fr. Jack..... "Feck Off!!!"

Someone had to take the pictures!! thats my story and Im stickin with it!, I suppose what didnt help was the whole night we had one decent run of fish and during that run (without me knowing it) my hooks were stripped
Let the lads have their fun hehehe .... Theres a fishy out there with my name on it!!

@ defella... its begining to look that way

@ Al & Jordan.. funny thing was we were using the same bait same hook sizes casting around the same distance and myself and miami struck out it was like every 2nd person blanking?!! Originalsin was here X, I was here _, Sparkey was here X, Miami was here_, and Tighlines was here X,
@ Stevo.. their heads are big enough!! Their still texting me saying how nice it is to have fresh cod and chips!!

Oh and when they were gutting and cleaning we found the normal cod worms, small crabs, sand eels, shrimp, and two of these little fellas wondering what they are? (ermmm no not the battery, that was only put in to show the size) this little fella had two ridges on his back if that helps the id any.....

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looks like whats left of a dragonet

Theres always next time creep, but atleast ye no were to fish now.

@ Shane !! I knew I seen it somewhere before THANK YOU!!! Couldn't remember the name of it!
@ Wayne Too true the South seems the place to be at present but it would be lovely to see some of these fish in East Coast waters...

looks like whats left of a dragonet

Its a Pogge also called the Armed Bullhead

http://www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/ph ... tem=agocat

@ Donal... Thanks again!! Brill!

well done kev on a great report i told you what way to go home but did you take the info in no but you got home in the end mind you fishless but you got there maybe next time you will take the quick way and then catch some fish (and pigs will fly )

Well done lads. Can't believe you took the scenic route home at 1am. Poor feckers.

Kev there is always next time for you to fish and for us to CATCH..... just wonder how long we can keep the pi$$ taking up.....

Going to get you a good road map for xmas... But all in all a great day and night out with the lads and some good pics there and we found out what the small fish was... and al the cod had there bellys stuffed with small crab.

Guess a trip to one of our great marks in south wicklow is need to get the blank out of the system

count me in i will get the bait

ya'll be laughin now!! come the next trip we'll see whos eaten dinner As for directions, I'll merely say this, when your tired and in a new spot ya think the easy thing to do is click on the sat nav and let it lead the way, also that local lad sayin he hits Dublin via Waterford faster ?? rather then the Cork motor way?? I would have personally said the Motorway meself but this thing (its 7 years old) was pointing a different way