Inishowen, Co. Donegal 23-12-11
Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:21 am
People: Just me
Duration:16.00-21.00
Tide:Dropping, Over HW (17.30) and down
Weather:Sunshine, rain, sleet, wind, calm
Bait:Black lug and frozen mack
Rigs: 3-hook flapper
Results:Coleys, flounder and turbot
Report: Up home for a few days over Christmas so time for a festive fish! Headed to Culdaff to fish the last hour of daylight and intended to fish it until mid-tide and hopefully bag a few fat flounder. Got to the mark and the surf looked lovely! Started off on first cast with a coley to 34cm, he was hooked in the gills and bleeding badly so I did the decent thing and took him home for dinner. Once the light started to fade properly the coleyfest really started. Plenty of small fish about 20-25cm. Reckoned this might be the way of it until the tide began to drop and the flounder came on a bit but a small turbot kept things interesting. At this stage the wind was fairly biting and I was trying to decide if I wanted to wait 2 hours for the flounder to show or not. Decided to move to the more sheltered Shroove beach but was retrieving when I got a nice bang which turned out to be a nice thick 36cm flounder so a great way to finish with Culdaff. Packed up and headed to Shroove. Got there about 18.15 and a stroll down to the beach proved that it was a bit more angler friendly! First cast produced another coley followed shortly by a flounder/coley double. Fishing seemed to die then, tried varying the distances but only picked up another coley to about 20 cm. All fish taken on mack in both venues. All-in-all a handy enough session
Duration:16.00-21.00
Tide:Dropping, Over HW (17.30) and down
Weather:Sunshine, rain, sleet, wind, calm
Bait:Black lug and frozen mack
Rigs: 3-hook flapper
Results:Coleys, flounder and turbot
Report: Up home for a few days over Christmas so time for a festive fish! Headed to Culdaff to fish the last hour of daylight and intended to fish it until mid-tide and hopefully bag a few fat flounder. Got to the mark and the surf looked lovely! Started off on first cast with a coley to 34cm, he was hooked in the gills and bleeding badly so I did the decent thing and took him home for dinner. Once the light started to fade properly the coleyfest really started. Plenty of small fish about 20-25cm. Reckoned this might be the way of it until the tide began to drop and the flounder came on a bit but a small turbot kept things interesting. At this stage the wind was fairly biting and I was trying to decide if I wanted to wait 2 hours for the flounder to show or not. Decided to move to the more sheltered Shroove beach but was retrieving when I got a nice bang which turned out to be a nice thick 36cm flounder so a great way to finish with Culdaff. Packed up and headed to Shroove. Got there about 18.15 and a stroll down to the beach proved that it was a bit more angler friendly! First cast produced another coley followed shortly by a flounder/coley double. Fishing seemed to die then, tried varying the distances but only picked up another coley to about 20 cm. All fish taken on mack in both venues. All-in-all a handy enough session
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Re: Inishowen, Co. Donegal 23-12-11
Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:33 am
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Re: Inishowen, Co. Donegal 23-12-11
Sat Dec 24, 2011 1:19 pm
nice session there well done
Re: Inishowen, Co. Donegal 23-12-11
Sat Dec 24, 2011 1:47 pm
Well done 
Nice few cspecies
Nice few cspecies
Re: Inishowen, Co. Donegal 23-12-11
Sat Dec 24, 2011 8:56 pm
good effort. nice pics
well done
well done
Re: Inishowen, Co. Donegal 23-12-11
Sun Dec 25, 2011 12:23 am
Thanks for the comments lads. Tried shroove again this evening. More flounder and good coleys with a wee dab and a 5-beardy thrown in. Happy Christmas folks:-D
Re: Inishowen, Co. Donegal 23-12-11
Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:15 pm
good work on both counts - nice christmas pressie!
Re: Inishowen, Co. Donegal 23-12-11
Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:33 am
Nice fishing lad, going to head down that direction tomorrow myself!
Re: Inishowen, Co. Donegal 23-12-11
Mon Dec 26, 2011 11:17 am
well done nice to be rewarded when you make the effort, must try an inishowen beach soon, some nice piers up there, not too crowded either this time of year 
Re: Inishowen, Co. Donegal 23-12-11
Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:21 pm
Very nice fishing there man fair play.
Re: Inishowen, Co. Donegal 23-12-11
Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:19 pm
Thanks again lads. The beaches in Inishowen seem to be fishing well at the moment.
Sorry to have missed you in Shroove PaddyB, hope you managed a few fish? It's back to the east coast whiting for me
Sorry to have missed you in Shroove PaddyB, hope you managed a few fish? It's back to the east coast whiting for me
Re: Inishowen, Co. Donegal 23-12-11
Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:30 pm
Nice fishing there.
Re: Inishowen, Co. Donegal 23-12-11
Fri Dec 30, 2011 3:56 pm
Sweetwrasse wrote:Thanks again lads. The beaches in Inishowen seem to be fishing well at the moment.
Sorry to have missed you in Shroove PaddyB, hope you managed a few fish? It's back to the east coast whiting for me
No sweat lad, Stupidly I decided to head for the west facing shores of Inishowen, Ballyliffen / Clonmany / Urris / Lenan in search of big flounder, but it was blowing a feking hoolie over that direction, between wind and weed it was a waste of time!!!