kerry wednesday 31st-3rd august

People: me dad and the younger brother

Duration:2 days and nights

Tide:all

Weather:windy but warm

Bait:sandeel lug and hardback crabs

Rigs:pulleys flappers float lead head and soft plastics

Results:bass ,painted ray, pollack,wrasse




Report:

decided to head to tralee on our annual trip down. we camped in the campsite across from sammys restaurant on inch beach on arrival we could see that there was a lovely surf running and we were itching to try it the next day .....

Session 1(daylight)
got up early to dig lug . headed off to blennerville and got about 150 lug and a small bucket of small hardback (perfect wrasse bait)first mark to try was a rock mark near ventry (thanks alby for a heads up on the mark) found a lovely gully and cast a nice wriggly crab on the float within seconds the floats dissapered and a lovely wrasse of about 4lbs was brought up the rocks this continued all day with a wrasse a cast it must have been full of them down there great fun on the light tackle tried some storm holographic eels in a green colour rigged texas style got a few doing this aswell as a nice pollack around 3lbs would have stayed on longer but we ran out of crab all fish were returned and all nice fish between 3 and 4lbs after that we headed into dingle to get a bit of grub after the nicest fish and chips we have ever had we headed back to inch to fish the beach from low to high into darkness

Session 2 (night)
fished inch from low to high lots of weed which resulted in one schoolie around 10pm stayed on fishing till around 12 30 but to no avail


Session 3(day)
headed back out towards slea head to try another mark but the very strong winds made it unfishable so we had to find another spot wasnt too confident as it didnt look great ... kept at it for around 2 hours and ended up with 1 lovely wrasse on a berkly firetail jellyworm headed back to tralee and popped into landers to pick up a few packs of sandeel as all the lug had died after some rainwater had got in and the were turning a bit soggy

Session 4(night)
after a quick call to Eugene we decided to give banna strand a lash to see if there was any more bass around and some rays first cast produced a nice little schoolie for the younger brother as it started to get dark a nice painted ray of around 7 lbs was beached a few more bass later and 2 more painted fellas it started to get dark the problems started we had realised we only had the very weak headlamp and left the good one in the tent .... then when we went to change batteries the battery compartment fell out and one of the springs went flying off .... that was the end of that and of course just after we started loosing light we started gettin really good bites clearly few big ray out there a nice steady pull down on the rod we left it develop and struck............. nothing next cast was the same struck and was clearly into a nice fish got it into the surf in close and the hook pulled we could see the wings flapping so probably a big ray at this stage it was very hard to see using only the phone light to see then as we lashed another cast out the shockleader snapped and dad got a lovely birds nest so we decided to pack up and after some mcdonalds we hit the hay

all in all a lovely few days in the kingdom and thanks again to alby and Eugene for your help on a few marks looking forward to nxt year already hopefully for a few nice stingers

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good report conor and some great fishing

+ 1 on those fish n' chips..I'm starving now just thinking about them!

+ 1 on those fish n' chips..I'm starving now just thinking about them!

They are the nicest chips going i thing the shop i called 'reel dingle fish'

Great stuff Conor,

Glad you got the few fish, pity about the headlamp fiasco, u were on for a great session I'd say!

Lovely ray! Kingfisher will always put you right!

lovely report and nice pic of your painted ray ,i must pop down one evening after work and fish for a few hours

Great report!Well done on a great trip

great report, great pic and great trip by the sounds of it. brilliant stuff.
lovely looking fish those painted rays

Nice ray, and that beach looks lovely for bass, Great way to spend a few days .

Cool report,,and some cracking fish, well done lads.

Great report a a few cracking days and night fishing well done and lovely fish

Well done mate great report.

Sounds like a great weekend was had Conor