Greystones Harbour, 10th March

People:Me and Fishface

Duration:8pm-11pm

Tide:rising

Weather:beautiful mild evening,slight nw breeze

Bait:mack, sandeel, squid

Rigs:2 and 3 hook flappers

Results: Pollock, coalies, doggie, pouting



Report: With Fishface confined to dinky fishing for the forseeable future (try saying that with a few drink's ) due to a serious car accident, I decided to cheer him up and treat him to some therapeutic fishing in Greystones Harbour. Casting was ruled out so it was a case of dropping a line over the wall and hoping for the best. After we had explained the "No Canoodling on the Pier" rule to a couple beside us we baited up with mack, sandeel and squid on size 4's and lobbed out. I had a couple of small pollock before there was any reply from Fishface but he ended up ahead of me by two fish. I had a pollock and a pouting to even it up before he pulled in another pollock and remembered the old saying,,"I'll quit while i'm ahead",,,,,,,,and started to pack up. He used his spinal injury as an excuse,,,,,but I'm not accepting that one just 'cos he wrote off his car last week Seriously though,,,,,,,,,,he had a lucky escape thank God,,,,,,,,I couldn't bear the thought of never hearing those fishing stories again ,,,,Dustbin lid plaice,,,wheelbarrow loads of doggies at comps,,,,,,huge Greystones cod,,,,,,,,,,blah,blah , blah
Anyway's, with Neil gone , I used my 2 rod's,,,,,,,one in close and the other 20/30 yds out with sandeel. When I retrieved it there was a bit of weight on,,,,,and I reeled in a double of a Pollock and my first doggie of 2012 . It was a real pleasure being out fishing on such a nice night,,,,and when one of the foreign lads reeled in an Octopus we all went over for a gander and a few piccies. The Octopus wasnt too happy and gave us the two fingers,,,,,,,,or in his case the eight tentacles . I unhooked him while they were all looking for gloves ,,, and the lad put him back in. I had a nice coalie on mack/squid in close on the small rod and when my leader parted company with the main line on a short lob, I decided to call it a night. Avery enjoyable and relaxing night

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did ya miss me? nice to know that the harbour is still good,i was told it produced some mac on sat now thats a shock in march!

nice evening for it lads,,,maks and octopus,,,that pier is fast becoming the premier shore mark on the east coast

Damn I just missed yas!!! I heard about the octopus and thought ah dodger was about was in Killiney and moved to Greystone about 11:30ish
stayed till just after 3:30am, meet two young lads that were fishin into the harbour they told us of the Octopus, meet the forgien lads who came off the pier when we arrived and they looked very upset, I asked them if anything was caught "all small" came the reply. but damn the place was in a heap, mono and weights left behind oh well just HAD to clean it up. Sorry to hear about Fishface hope he gets better soon.

Please tell me it wasnt you two canodooling!!

and there was two joeys caught in Howth on Sunday so the mack are back, all be it small at the moment

well done lads and great report dave i was there last night with the father and brother and we had a load of small fish codling,pollock,pouthing,rockling,whiting,coalie, and my first dog of the year was talking to a lad who had a 10lb lobester there last week (seen the pic) and he also said something about some mack being caught

great to hear neil is ok and hope he gets well soon

dont you just hate it when another courting couple trys to moouch into your spot and you and neil there already you know how to test if he,s faking his injuies drop 2 euros at his feet if he bends to pick it up! oh no thats soap in the shower good report eyes

[quote="Creep"]Damn I just missed yas!!! I heard about the octopus and thought ah dodger was about was in Killiney and moved to Greystone about 11:30ish
stayed till just after 3:30am
Howya creep,that was myself fishing beside you.Ended up sticking it out til 5am when all the lug was gone,that other lad left not long after you. I got this double when you were jumping into your car,after me asking you all about the flounder you had off the harbour.Not much more to report after you guys left.

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nice fishing lads, well done

well done getting a few dave . that was a rough one with neil glad to hear he is ok and not too badly hurt. i'm guessing it was a bad one if the car was a write off
he's getting into a habit of writing cars off. him and mitch were telling us the stories of their antics from "back in the day", last year when we were out smoothie fishing with them. i think the last one he mangeld had a bit of an abrubpt meeting with an iron gate!!
just glad he's ok

alright eyes what's that daiwa rod you have with the orange tip? a long beam or a meanstreak?

Damn I just missed yas!!! I heard about the octopus and thought ah dodger was about was in Killiney and moved to Greystone about 11:30ish
stayed till just after 3:30am
Howya creep,that was myself fishing beside you.Ended up sticking it out til 5am when all the lug was gone,that other lad left not long after you. I got this double when you were jumping into your car,after me asking you all about the flounder you had off the harbour.Not much more to report after you guys left.

Excellent glad i could help! , Its always nice to get a species off your list, personally I would love to see greystones have a nice wee flounder bed out there!! looks like the start of something good!