Shroove beach 17/12/2011

People: Cathald & myself

Duration: Bout 2hrs

Tide: Small outgoing

Weather: Cold wet miserable

Bait: Mack, Sand eel, Black lug

Rigs: 3 Hook flapper

Results: 1 Coalie




Report: After a fairly productive session on this beach last week I arranged to meet Cathald for a quick session on Saturday afternoon. When I arrived, Cathal was already set-up and fishing away, but it looked like a diffrerent beach to the one I fished last week, there was no surf worth talking about. Baits were coming back untouched, I had went down there with the notion that I had to leave at 4.30, and at about 4.15 I wound in and rebaited, cast out set down the rod, tidied up the box a bit and by the time I turned round to the rod again it was bouncing away nicely, I reeled in a nice coalie, measured up at 42cm, I have a pic on my phone, which I will upload later, great to save the blankety blankety tho I dodnt know if Cathal hit into anymore Coalies after I left as darkness fell?

In summary, for anyone planning a trip to this beach, it would seem that this beach is going to be very hit and miss, last week had a big run of tide, a big surf, we fished the last few hours of the incoming tide, and it was very productive. This week was a small tide, no surf, we fished the middle few hours of the outgoing tide & it was shite!

thats the way of it boss.
be grateful for that coalie

atleast you saved a blank, lots of beaches are like that, hit and miss, in beaches where im fishing the roring surf would produse mush more than flat calm, you never know
but anyway good to be out i guess even when fishing is slow
well done on 42cm colie its nice one

Thanks for posting, some valuable information there. Hard luck on the fishing but a nice blank saving coalie at the end there