Greystones south, 05/10/12
Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:18 pm
People:Jacko1986 and myself
Duration:17.30-10.15
Tide: LW at 20.30ish
Weather:Calm and mild
Bait:mack and lug
Rigs: flappers, clip downs, 8/0 wire traces (rotten-bottom running ledgers)
Results: Whiting, doggies, flounder, dab, mackeral, coalfish.
Report: Hadn't managed a session on the beach in a few weeks as I'd been too busy, mainly blanking, fly-fishing for trout so decided it was high time to try the salt again! I knew Jacko would be having withdrawal symptoms from the river too and was in need of a fishy fix so a few texts and a plan was hatched. Got down to the beach about 17.15 and the beach was weed free and the sea flat calm. I'd come planning to put out a tope trace so this looked good for a try anyway. Got set up by 17.30 with a flapper in close while I tied up a few traces. Had a decent mackeral (36 cm) almost straight away from no more than 20 ft off the beach. It put up a very good account of itself and I was thinking schoolie bass but wasn't disappointed to see a nice plump mack. Things were looking up! Fresh bait and hopes boosted that something a bit toothier might be around. Things were quiet for a while until a small flounder came in around dusk. Jacko got off the mark with a doggie so we settled in for a few hours. Fish were coming regularly enough throughout the session with a few species showing up, a nice dab for Jacko and a coley for me. The whiting showed up then with a few over 25 cm which hopefully means that the size might be up a bit this winter. At this stage the tope rod started nodding so picked it up to have a look. Turned out to be a trace I'd broken of earlier complete with a doggie attached, neatly lip-hooked and none the worse for being attached to a 5-oz lead for a few hours. Sadly that was the only action on the tope rod all night, which wasn't unexpected having done a bit of research on the topic but we shall be back!
All-in-all though a few decent hours on a lovely Wicklow evening and nice to have a busy session
Duration:17.30-10.15
Tide: LW at 20.30ish
Weather:Calm and mild
Bait:mack and lug
Rigs: flappers, clip downs, 8/0 wire traces (rotten-bottom running ledgers)
Results: Whiting, doggies, flounder, dab, mackeral, coalfish.
Report: Hadn't managed a session on the beach in a few weeks as I'd been too busy, mainly blanking, fly-fishing for trout so decided it was high time to try the salt again! I knew Jacko would be having withdrawal symptoms from the river too and was in need of a fishy fix so a few texts and a plan was hatched. Got down to the beach about 17.15 and the beach was weed free and the sea flat calm. I'd come planning to put out a tope trace so this looked good for a try anyway. Got set up by 17.30 with a flapper in close while I tied up a few traces. Had a decent mackeral (36 cm) almost straight away from no more than 20 ft off the beach. It put up a very good account of itself and I was thinking schoolie bass but wasn't disappointed to see a nice plump mack. Things were looking up! Fresh bait and hopes boosted that something a bit toothier might be around. Things were quiet for a while until a small flounder came in around dusk. Jacko got off the mark with a doggie so we settled in for a few hours. Fish were coming regularly enough throughout the session with a few species showing up, a nice dab for Jacko and a coley for me. The whiting showed up then with a few over 25 cm which hopefully means that the size might be up a bit this winter. At this stage the tope rod started nodding so picked it up to have a look. Turned out to be a trace I'd broken of earlier complete with a doggie attached, neatly lip-hooked and none the worse for being attached to a 5-oz lead for a few hours. Sadly that was the only action on the tope rod all night, which wasn't unexpected having done a bit of research on the topic but we shall be back!
All-in-all though a few decent hours on a lovely Wicklow evening and nice to have a busy session
Re: Greystones south, 05/10/12
Sun Oct 07, 2012 11:03 am
Excellent report mate 
was out last night myself further down the coast, and was kept extremely busy (mainly whitting around 19cm, but the odd one breaking over 25-6 cm largest of the night was around 31cm, flounder, dabs , and plaice made a show as well, but rounded the night off with the dreaded 5 bread rockling (winter is a coming). But interestly during the night a mate and myself on seprate occassions had decent size whitting bitten cleanly in half 
no notable tug on the line either (apart from the happless whitting)
was out last night myself further down the coast, and was kept extremely busy (mainly whitting around 19cm, but the odd one breaking over 25-6 cm largest of the night was around 31cm, flounder, dabs , and plaice made a show as well, but rounded the night off with the dreaded 5 bread rockling (winter is a coming). But interestly during the night a mate and myself on seprate occassions had decent size whitting bitten cleanly in half no notable tug on the line either (apart from the happless whitting)