Sligo beach and rock, 2/1/2013

People:Me

Duration:7 hrs

Tide:Flood plus 1 hr ebb

Weather:Dry, fresh southerly wind

Bait:Frozen razor and mackerel

Rigs:2 hook flapper, single clipped

Results:flounder, strap conger, coalfish




Report:
Headed out for a session on the beach, this time during daylight to try and avoid the plague of small coalies on my last night session. That part of the plan worked; no coalies. Not much else for a couple of hours either though I did manage to snag and lose a rig on the sandy beach, of which more later. I set up 2 rods as usual fishing in close with a 2 hook flapper and small mackerel strips and razor and at range with a clipped 1/0 baited with razor and mackerel. Eventually at about half tide I got a bite on the near rod and after giving it a minute to develop, reeled in a 25cm flounder which had taken both baits. I wonder which he took first, razor or mackerel? No more activity followed so an hour before high tide I decided to move to a rock mark. As I retrieved the long range rod I could feel a dead weight on it, presumably yet more weed. In fact it turned out to be my lost rig from earlier and with the added bonus of a plump 30cm flounder attached!
A while later I set up on the rock mark using bigger reels with 30lb line straight through and rotten bottom rigs. I only fished for about 2 hrs and managed a strap conger and small coalfish (well it was dark by now). The bottom turned out to be cleaner than expected and no gear was lost. I had never fished this spot before but I will return for a longer session.

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Nice fishing and a good report well done;-)

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Nice report. Those small coleys are about in massive numbers on all beaches in the nw region especially with a bit of surf about. Thats mad catching the lost rig on the distance rod and with a fish lol

Nice going John , a few fish and no gear lost well not for long.a shame there was no more flats about it dose look fishy.

Nice session, well done.

Nice few fish, I'm starting to have withdrawal symptoms at this stage!!!

nice report
well made rigs

Well done nice few fish

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nice session lad.

Nice fishing and a good report well done;-)

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Thanks John Cork

Nice report. Those small coleys are about in massive numbers on all beaches in the nw region especially with a bit of surf about. Thats mad catching the lost rig on the distance rod and with a fish lol

Hi rushnaldo, I wonder how long the flounder was on the recovered rig? And what did it snag on to begin with? BTW, I came across a load of your pictures by accident a couple of months ago, some great shots esp of those trawlers at Killybegs stuffed to the gunwales with fish.

Nice going John , a few fish and no gear lost well not for long.a shame there was no more flats about it dose look fishy.

Thanks Dan, I have never got that many flats from that beach but I did get my best so it encourages me to go back.

Nice session, well done.

Thanks Monkeywrasse.

Nice few fish, I'm starting to have withdrawal symptoms at this stage!!!

Yeah, it's near time we had a report from you, even a blank!

nice report
well made rigs

Thanks Eric, you can understand the lengths I go to to try and retrieve lost ones!

Well done nice few fish
Thanks big fish.

nice session lad.

Thanks lucky13, on the rougher ground mark I tried using the upside down lead link clip as a rotten bottom, you mentioned it recently in a post by Big Bear, it worked every time so thanks for that.

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greedy flounder there man