east waterford

People:myself ,bernard and ken

Duration:12pm-7.30pm

Tide:high water at 12pm

Weather:beautiful sunny day

Bait:lug, wraps,squid,crab ,mackerel

Rigs:pennel pulleys, 2 hooks clipped and 3 hook flappers

Results:codling, dabs,rockling ,flounders,whiting




Report:fished a mark that did well for me for codling last year, was a bit later than last year but decided to give it a bash anyway for some elusive cod, 3 of us were quickly baited up with me going for distance with a pulley and the 2 apprentices going in close with 3 hook flappers, i had a full wrap on and tipped with a squid strip and the 2 lads with straight lug, left mine out for 20 mins or so when the 2 lads reeled in doubles of rockling and dabs, not to be outdone i reeled in confidently with a nice bend in the rod to see a nice weedfish on the end of the line ,laughter from the 2 lads and lots of slaggin i persisted with the pulley for 2 hours because i had caught some fine codling here last year all the bigger ones at distance, to no avail, couldnt catch a cold the lads were saying to me, finally put on a 3 hook flapper in close and was rewarded straight away with a 32 cm codling, then next cast a treble of dab, flounder and rockling, speedfished the next 2 hours or so with plenty of flatties, whiting ,flounder and rockling, the lads got quiet ,catching a single fish here and there, amazing how nice lads get when they need a shockleader tied on all in all we had at least 50 fish between the 3 of us and a glorious sunny day to boot thats the cod finished for this year methinks!, one cod is all we had but target species was caught ,a real nice days fishing overall and looking forward to summer fishing now

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Good report and photos James,,,,,nice to have a busy session like that Pity the decent codling were all gone but i'd be happy enough with that trip,and what great weather . See you on the beaches for the smoothies in a few months please God

Great report lads and really god to see pics. I know that spot well and it never blanks for me (even if its just a small flattie). Looks like ye had a blast too, and sure isnt that the whole point. Roll on the summer lads!

Good report and photos James,,,,,nice to have a busy session like that Pity the decent codling were all gone but i'd be happy enough with that trip,and what great weather . See you on the beaches for the smoothies in a few months please God

thanks dave, had a great day out lookin forward to a few sessions with you this summer

Great report lads and really god to see pics. I know that spot well and it never blanks for me (even if its just a small flattie). Looks like ye had a blast too, and sure isnt that the whole point. Roll on the summer lads!

thanks tom,was a fine days fishing, its a great beach,always a few fish there

Fair play and great session with plenty of fish caught and that looks like a cracker of a day.

Nice bit of fishing, especially in the daytime.

Thats a great report lads,hoping to get down that side this year on holidays,some great photos good to see that there was a bit of time put into writing the report and uploading the photos.Well done lads.

John Ainsworth
Galway

nice fishing for daytime at this time of year
john let me know when your down this side and ill join yea

no monsters man, but what you lacked in quality you sure made up for in quantity
rod tips nodding away all day, pure quality
great pics too
sure what more could ya ask for