Downhill Beach, County Londonderry, 18/1/12

People:Nial and mate Monty

Duration:8.30pm - 12.00am

Tide:falling

Weather:Windy, heavy rain showers

Bait:mussels, squid, prawns

Rigs:1 x 2 hook clip down, 1x boomed flapper rig, 1 x 2 hook pennel rig, 1 x clipped down flounder rig, 3 x fixed reels, 1 x multiplier reel

Results:Nothing




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Talk about last minute dot com.
I got a phone call from Martin at 17.45 asking what I was upto? Told him no plans,( Martin) do you want to go fishing? ( me ) ok, so mad rush to the house and get some squid and prawns out of the deep freeze to try and thaw it out.

Martin arrived and off we set to the supermarket to try and get some mackeral, none left so ended up buying a bag of mussels to try them.

Arrived at the beach and it would have blown the head of you, so we got the rods out and our mish mashed bait and started to set up.

By this time the tide was approaching full low but we thought we would give it a go anyway.

2 of the rods were kept low out of the wind and 2 kept a bit higher but to no avail, they still jumped and rattled about in the wind.

Then the showers started with some of them pretty heavy, we fished until midnight but not even as much as a nibble on the bait so decided to call it a night.

Not the best nights fishing but was still nice to get out and some fresh air into our lungs, hopefully heading out again next week, might move location just to give it a try

I tried the beach at Portrush and it wasn't great at all, wonder how Ballintoy's fishing at the minute?

Haven't heard much about Balintoy lately but im thinking of giving Downhill a rest for a few weeks, would like to try somewhere else, might give Castlerock a try or if i have the time Balintoy, now you've put it in my head lol

sorry to hear that.

the rock marks are def fishing alot better along the north coast at the min. anywhere from portrush to ballycastle are stuffed with coalies at the min though but they keep the rods bouncing.

dave

Suppose even Derry has its bad days now and then,

fair play on sticking it out. unlucky

unlucky m8 its depressing when u put in the effort and no result. god luvs a tryer tho. good on yas gettin out neway

would stay clear from there for a month or so.
Try some deeper water marks and fish in the dark. Blue pools is good, Portrush harbour back wall is where i fish at this time of year but you have weed to 30 yards to get over.

Haven't fished the back wall of the harbour in years, any time i did fish there i always drew a blank apart from loads of sea weed.
Have considered the blue pool or around there, might give it a go soon.