East coast (period of time though)

People:Me and Dodger one trip and then me alone on others and with some strange people now and again!! (at least I think they were people, could have been aliens though, should have done blood tests on them really!!)

Duration: latest trip was last monday but others as mention have been from my very last post (about a month or more ago)

Tide: Low -high and then back on the drop

Weather: some days sunny others (most) rainy windy and stormy (and thats our SUMMER???)

Bait: mainly rag lug and mack

Rigs:flappers, pulleysand the odd clip down

Results: Pollock, Bullhuss, whitting, Dabs, Flounders, Poor Cod, Pouting, Doggys, and an Octopus:)




Report:
Well this report is a long time coming, I know some of you were discussing my demise, but no, I’m alive and well ..just work and personal life have gotten in the way of the more important things in life like fishing!!!. But I have been out a couple of times and not having the time to report on my fishing exploits, but this report will bring it up to speed I hope with a few highlights of previous brief trips out. Well headed out on Monday night to one of my normal grounds with a good friend, Dodger, in the hope of teaching some worms to swim, (sadly we failed in that mission) but to say the night wasn’t entertaining would be far off the mark, with Pouting, poor cod, whiting (23cm), doggies, Dabs and Flounder showing and kept my rods busy, but the highlight of the night for me was an octopus!! A nice happy chappy who decided to stick himself to the ground (took me longer trying to get him off the ground and back into the sea, then it did to unhook him!!) But a couple of the more memorable trips I went out on this year was taking my son out on his FIRST boat trip chasing Tope, the weather was against us with Heavy swells and we couldn’t get out to the Tope grounds so we made the best of the situation and headed for the banks, sadly my son got sea sick BUT despite it, he wants to go out on a boat again (next year son we will). With a few macky bashing trips in between, headed out to one of my favourite marks and it was a beautiful busy day with Mackerel and Lance showing, a woman with 2 kids asked If I mind showing her kids my fish .. of course not, they were thrilled, but I told them to hang on and I’ll get a member of the shark family (here I was thinking Dog Fish) baited up and casted out, lit a smoke and by the time I had finished the smoke the rod took an unmerciful knock bent right over!!! With a good account of itself a nice 3lb 15oz Bull was landed! (first of the year from the shore for me!) herself and the kids were thrilled and as I finished weighing it and putting it back to the sea (in which two swimmers came out of the water at that exact time and this woman screamed …. THERES A SHARK BETWEEN MY LEGS!!” a sentence I never thought I would EVER hear and most likely one I’ll never hear again!!) the woman with the kids, as she turned to leave, made a nice remark…” you’re a man of your word!” with that I packed up, but it brought home to me that this was fishing, pure enjoyment…….. Now for the sad news though, this year due to personal reasons I wont be able to run the Mad Haddocks Angling Party for Temple Street for Halloween, Though I will be looking at doing it again in the Near Future as Temple Street badly need funds, But once things calm down from a personal side I will be operational again that’s a promise!

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Good to see you back in action Creep.
Some nice whitings there

Welcome back Kev m8 didn't miss you all the same

Where did you get those extra big measures?

nice to hear from you again m8 wont be long b4 your blanking in youghal

Where did you get those extra big measures?

Henrys tackle

@ Monkeywrasse, yeah the whitting have never left , but me thinks with these "bigger" fellas around they might just get a little fatter when thepins show? Didnt bother taken a photo of the whitting though, I actually have enough on file on the computer if I ever forget what they look like
tightline.. looking forward to it mate
Sparkey your the one keeps ringing me (hence told me to get out for my own sanity!!!)

nice to hear from you again m8 wont be long b4 your blanking in youghal

Fair play Alan nearly choked on my cuppa tea with the laughter....

@ Monkeywrasse, yeah the whitting have never left , but me thinks with these "bigger" fellas around they might just get a little fatter when thepins show? Didnt bother taken a photo of the whitting though, I actually have enough on file on the computer if I ever forget what they look like
tightline.. looking forward to it mate
Sparkey your the one keeps ringing me (hence told me to get out for my own sanity!!!)

This year and last year I 've just noticed the whiting are a bit bigger than they have bee in the last 10 years or so..