Kilcoole

People:Myself and Mickm

Duration:3.30-1.30

Tide:Hw about midnight

Weather:not bad. Got a bit of drizzle towards the end

Bait:mac,rag,crab,black wrap

Rigs:3 up, 2 up 1 down and micks "special" rig

Results:flounder , dab, whiting, coley and doggies

We were off work for the day so we decided to try kilcoole as we hadn't fished it for a while but after a few casts the weed became a bit of a pain! We tried all distances and bait combinations but no fish were to be had for a while. Mick had been wanting to try out one of his personalised rigs for a while so it came out of the box and got put to the test. Shortly afterwards he reeled in a nice 32 cm flounder. Over the next hour or that he caught another 2 flatties with 2 out of the 3 coming to his rig so he was chuffed with that. On the other hand however I could do no right and nothing I tried worked. I was even contemplating heading to greystones pier to at least catch a few fish but as the tide started pushing in properly I started connecting with a few fish. The fishing cracked on fairly well for the next few hours and turned into a fairly decent session after a bad start. Altogether I reckon we had close to 12 flatties, 20 or more whiting with most of them over 20cm , 1 coley and about ten doggies. I reckon my best catch in micks opinion was about an hour after he lost his rig in a snag, I reeled it in on my own line
Just something we tried out after we caught some of the whiting was releasing then in a gulley by our feet which some of the larger waves were filling and they practically all went belly up, as I always see when I return them to the sea ......... BUT after 3 or 4 minutes they got going again and swam back out healthy and none the worse for their ordeal. I had presumed all the whiting during comps etc were killed but hopefully I was wrong. It was great to see the small flounders darting around the gulley too. All in all an enjoyable night


Report:

didnt sound too bad for kilcoole did that with some schoolies one night at low water every time you shone your headlight on them they took off at 50 mph as soon as 6 inches of water flooded into the gully they all powered out into the surf like little missiles