East Cork 10/11/2012

People:me

Duration:a few hours too long

Tide:dropping to rising and dropping again

Weather:ok

Bait:Fresh crab

Rigs:Pennels

Results:3 Codling, Flounder and whiting




Report:
Decided to hit off to East Cork to try for codling, had been down a couple of weeks ago with no success on the codling front but managed to get a pb flounder that measured 44cm.
Hit off from Limerick at 4am was about half way down when i realised that i had left my lunch on the kitchen table Arrived at a mark at around 6.45am had hit bad patches of fog on the way down and had watched the temp guage in the van drop to minus 1 as i landed into cork. Got set up on and baits out in the water for the last hour of the outgoing so did not expect much at this stage. in my first 6 casts i had 3 codling confidence was up and i thought this could be a great day. Fished the whole way up to full with a couple of whiting and a couple of flounder late up near high water, but not a sign of another codling the whiting were definately in in numbers and in bait stripping form Met tightlines as the tide was turning, nice to meet you Alan, and thanks for the advice on the crab. As the tide turned it was getting harder and harder to hold the bottom and eventually hunger and tiredness hit so about 5pm called it a day, all in all delighted to get a few codling (biggest was 2.5lb). In the morning time around 9ish there was a mass of noise from the sky when i looked up there were crows (i think) in their hundreds massing up above me, so up when the hood took a couple of pics as i had never seen the amount of birds, didn't come out great but i'll put one up

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Mighty Flounder weldone Seamus.

Nice session Seamus... I haven't been out for at least a couple of months now. I hope to be able to go out and sort out some great fishing time soon.

good report Seamus, looks like the weather is going to turn at the weekend so chances of better cod should be improving.

glad you got a few nice cod for the hours you put in and a fine flounder aswell.Dont they say its a lucky sign when a bird Sh""ts on ya.mind i wouldnt fancy a few hundred
tightlines
ferg

Fair play on getting a few Conger, I was one of the lads who was down at around 8 that morning, we ended up fishing across from you. Was slow enough too, Mark had a flounder on his first cast and then it was about 3 hoursd before there was something else caught had 2 codling and a few flounder!
Flounder were a decent size I think the largest one was 42cm and the smallest was 38cm

Well done on the fishies should be great fishing next few weeks looking like some rough weather aswell

Fair play on getting a few Conger, I was one of the lads who was down at around 8 that morning, we ended up fishing across from you. Was slow enough too, Mark had a flounder on his first cast and then it was about 3 hoursd before there was something else caught had 2 codling and a few flounder!
Flounder were a decent size I think the largest one was 42cm and the smallest was 38cm

Hi Al

It was really slow, I thought after getting the 3 in the morning that i was on for a good day, sure that's fishing

well done seamus it was great to meet you and well done on the few fish

Great fishing and thats a fine lump of a flounder....