North Wicklow Beach 29th June

People:me, Mitch, Neil Brown and Eoin

Duration:6pm-midnight

Tide:low approx 9pm

[b,]Weather[/b]:beautiful evening

Bait:crab, rag and lug

Rigs:pulleys and flappers

Results:smoothies, dogs, dabs and plaice,,,,,,and a pin whiting for Fishface




Report:We returned to this beach again last evening as it had been consistently good for the last few weeks. I was first on site and had a good bite on my first cast which didnt develop into anything unfortunately but which was a good sign . Mitch arrived next and as he set up I had a fish take my crab bait, probably a smoothie, but he dropped off coming over the bank . Another lump of frozen crab was sent out and it was third time lucky for me as I noticed a definate Smoothie take,,,,,Bang,,Bang ,,Bang,,,,and I lifted into it and after my first decent scrap of the year, in came a nice medium sized Smoothie . Mitch was next in with a doggie sized pup smoothie and then it was dabs on the 3 hook flapper on rag followed by my first Plaice of the year. Neil Brown aka Fishface arrived with his nephew Eoin . Neil was to show Eoin his Smoothie Bagging techniques but alas it was Eoin who turned the tables and ended up giving us all a fishing lesson . So now we were at the stage where myself , Mitch and Eoin had bagged a Smoothie each ,,,but poor Neil was reduced to showing passers-by photos of his past glories,,sad to witness a great angler reduced to this level. Fortunately for him he had a take soon after and after a battle , landed a Smoothie. The main reason for the battle was that the Smoothie was unfortunately foul hooked ,,,and when we saw this we didn't let Neil off the hook either . After this the fishing was very slow and only for a couple of doggies and bikini clad beauties on the beach, we would have had nothing to keep our interest, but as the sun faded and the clothes came back on , we hoped the fish might yet make a re-appearance. . As the tide rose our hope was re-ignited when Mitch had a belter of a fight from a hound which took him walking down the beach 50 or 60 yds. This hound kept us there a good hour after we probably would have gone home but what the hell ,,,,another lesson learned of tide /conditions etc

Nice fishing lads!!!

Fairplay lads,nice session and report and photos .

John Ainsworth.

Well done lads sounds like a good session was had and some nice smuts caught cant ask for much more

Another good report,U did not miss anything on Ballymoney myself and J1 only caught 3 small Smoothounds..........

Some nice hounds there well done Lads

Nice goin lads. Good to hear the biggies are about....

Nice going lads tired Wicklow on Saturday from 1 till about 5 and only got two tiny flounder.:-(:-(:-(:-(

nice fishing lads,and a grand little read again dave