Monkstown 13-1-13

People: Me

Duration:10 till 3-30

Tide: Low water

Weather: Sunny but cold.

Bait: Sandeel crab and mussle

Rigs: 3 hoop looped and 2 hook looped

Results: roughly 15 small codling 38 being the biggest and a small pouting. No whiting :O




Report: I had 5 or six crab left from friday so i decided to do a bit of fishing down in monkstown got down there about 10:10 but i had to tie a leader knot and untangle a few traces so it was half past by the time i was fishing. Any first cast i got nothing, the tide was still racing at this point so it was hard to hold the bottom, second cast a small pouting around 17cm managed to swallow a hole crab and a bit of mussel greedy feker lol.

After that about 5 foreign lads thought it would be a great idea to set up litteraly 5m away from me even though the entire wall was empty. Why like?? At least five times they got cought in my line you think they would move up. I was also terrified for my life fishing next to them because for some reason they thought it would be a great idea to try copy my pendelum cast with no more than 20lb line and a 6oz lead on lidle rods what gose through their minds. Luckily enough i did not get hit by a lead. Oh and another thing that annoyed me was when start catching fish, every single fish they caught went into the bucket i mean from 15cm codling to even a dogfish went it to their bucket why like?? No wonder theres no decent fish down in monkstown these day is people like them bring home small fish and i am not being racist i see a few irish lads doing it to. Did they never here of catch and release BASTER*DS !!!!

Any way sorry for the little rant ill carry on with the report just after high tide some nicer fish started to show around the 30-38 mark. All the bigger fish were caught on mussle not crab :O theres a shock. I kept fishing until around half 3 when the tide just got to strong. All in all a good busy session.

Picture bellow of the biggest codling the only keeper of the session.

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just idiots i guess plenty of irish ones about too,dogfish is ok to eat if your hungry but tiny fish ?cant figure it out either , although i do often keep small whiting or pouting for bait ,but not bucketfulls! most lads that fish in your ear like that havnt a clue about fishing and seem to think if they see an angler at a particular spot it must be the only place they will catch the fact they cant cast far enough to get to where the fish are never enters their poor empty heads
well at least you got some codling and showed them how to return the small ones

Hahaha I was actually terified when they started to try a pendelum cast they were doing 360s with the lead and all this cr*p.

good fishing sean.....u know urself man theres anglers, and theres "anglers".....anglers like uve described will exist no matter what, who think they know it all when it comes to fishing, they havent the foggiest, park up right beside you and wreck ur head , and take every little tiddler they can get there hands on....and return nothing.......there are pro's and con's to everything, and sadly this is a con we have to put up with......

weve all encountered it from time to time.......

@ lugworm could not of been said better

Just do your usual cast of "150 yards" with braid and that should sort things out ,or just move at least you may get some peace and quiet.

thats the wall for ya nowadays.was there a couple of weeks ago,poor enough fishing,tiddlers.nothing to write home about.went to an east cork beach mark after that and landed me a 2.5 lbs cod first cast and me buddy an 8lbs bass...
it'd take a lot to convince me to head back there again for a cast because of the crowds lining the wall and all the ignorance that comes with it.
i've fished the cod season there for the last 3/4 years.give me an empty beach anyday.