Sunday Session , Greystones Harbour, 6-10-13

People:Me and Fishface

Duration:Him 4-30pm to 10pm,,,,me 7-30pm till 11-30pm

Tide:low at 6-30pm approx

Weather:Beautiful, mild night

Bait:rag, lug and mack

Rigs:2 hook mini rigs

Results:Pouting, Codling, Shore Rockling, Pollock, and the One that Got Away




Report:I was confined to Barracks painting the Kitchen all Saturday and Sunday so I had to get out somewhere for a Session . Fishface was out from the late afternoon so I guessed that by the time I arrived at the Harbour he would have pre baited my fishing area with his various concoctions of rag/lug/ mack . Being in the good books after all the painting, I got dropped off by my good ladywife at 7-30pm and was instructed to "Have a great time". I headed down to Fishface who, after 3 hours, had already caught a small Dab, and set up my 2 rods. My cheap Aldi Quiver tip was sent out with 2 rag and a 3oz weight towards the other wall of the Harbour and my 5 foot four piece mini rod was dropped down the wall a couple of yards out. A short time later on I had a knock on the Quiver tip and pulled in a small codling.



Fishface was next in with a nice fat pouting from the channel between the walls.




There were a few pouting about, I've noticed that they seem to be more active at low later, as are Shore Rockling, who also made an appearance. Then I also had a small pouting .




Things slowed down for a while then and I tried the Quiver tip in close as well as the mini rod. I had a thump on the Quivertip which turned out to be a nice pollock of 30cms, caught on lug, which was accounting for most of the fish. Fishface was getting the odd pouting and rockling every now and then , steady fishing,,,but there again he's an expert (so he tells everyone ) With him ahead in the numbers game (though my pollock was the stand out fish so far ) I decided it was time for a decade of the Rosary and I cast another big lug bait down below me. This resulted in a decent knock which turned out to be a Nodder of 38cms,,,,,Mondays dinner sorted



This was the last straw for Fishface and he packed up early,,,having only been there for 5 and a half hours Fair play to him, he gave me some rag which had been given to him earlier by another angler The Missus collected me at 10-30pm but it was such a nice mild night, we decided to stay a while longer. I put the last of the lug on a 2 hook flapper and dropped it out a few yards. With things going quiet , I decided to pack up and put the mini rod away. Then I started to reel in the quivertip and the rod went ballistic, The fish ducked and dived and I struggled to keep him up and out of the rough bottom but I got him to the surface and lifted up,,,,then the line went slack as he fell off,,,not too surprising as I had a size 6 hook on . I was gutted as I knew it was a better fish than the codling I had caught earlier. "Why dont you try again, you might catch him",,,I heard the Missus saying "I won't get HIM again", I answered,"Cos he has a sore lip from that small hook and will be extra careful now ". But I upped the hook size and cast back to the same spot just to please her. The bait was only in the water when BANG,,,,fish on ,,,,and after a short battle I reeled in a nice Pouting, biggest of the night at a porky 27cms



This was a nice fish to end the Session on but I went home thinking about the one that got away,,,,ah well ,,, he's still out there somewhere, and thay say (whoever THEY are ) Fish have got short memories and by the next time I head back he'll have forgotten all about that size 6 hook

Well done good session mate

Nice session Dave and Neil hope you enjoyed the dinner... well you will just have to try again for the one that got away....

well done dave nice to see a few codling around might try the beach over the next few weeks to see if its trowing up and decent codling

Nice session Dave and Neil hope you enjoyed the dinner... well you will just have to try again for the one that got away....

Fished better on low water for us Dave,,,,,it was crap the previous week over HW

Unfortunately Dave that was a big bass you lost...try live baiting one of them little pouting next time (that 27cm was a cracker)

Ye me and antoKildale fished it from low water to rising satherday and was grate fishing

of course nothing said about the lug I dug which caught most of the fish,oh me back

of course nothing said about the lug I dug which caught most of the fish,oh me back

By the way,,,,,,the lug was provided by Fishface

Fairplay lads on a nice session.

John Ainsworth.

the harbour masters well done lads

Sounds like an entertaining session. Well done lads. Great report as usual eyes:-)

quality report eyes will have to give the harbour a lash again soon

Great report Eyesreilly and some good pouting there. By the way, where did you get the lug?!

lovely session lads, better luck next time with the one that got away dave

Thanks for the replies lads, was there last night same tide/conditions and it was brutal,,,was lucky to get one small flattie. It was that bad that Roger packed up early and headed back to Limerick and Ray heaven , not sure whether it was the bad fishing (he got 2 doggies ) or listening to Fishface going on about another new rod and reel that drove him away

when you get a call from the boss to reassign you back to limerick and you realize you have to get up at 5 am and your peelers are still frozen its exit stage left!!!!!!

nice session there laads... happy days

Decent bit of fishing lads, well done.