waterford estuary 22/12/13
Mon Dec 23, 2013 1:57 pm
People: just myself
Duration: 5 hours
Tide: 4 hours coming in and 1 hour going out
Weather: little bit of a breeze
Bait: frozen lugworm , fresh lugworm , mackerel , mussel
Rigs: 2 hook flapper and 3 hook flapper hook size 1 and 1/0
Results: lots of whiting , a couple of codling , one dab
Report: the weather wasnt as bad as the last few days so i headed to the waterford estuary. Whiting were caught almost every cast in singles and doubles on lug and mackerel cocktails. The whiting were good size some of them 2lb weight. About an hour before high tide the rod tip started moving and a slack line followed and a codling about a pound a half was caught. One more smaller codling was caught next cast. The whiting were still coming in evry cast and one dab was caught as the tide started going out. Just one of the whiting took a mussel but the mussel is very hard to tie up with elastic. Most of the fish took fresh lug / mackerel cocktails.
Duration: 5 hours
Tide: 4 hours coming in and 1 hour going out
Weather: little bit of a breeze
Bait: frozen lugworm , fresh lugworm , mackerel , mussel
Rigs: 2 hook flapper and 3 hook flapper hook size 1 and 1/0
Results: lots of whiting , a couple of codling , one dab
Report: the weather wasnt as bad as the last few days so i headed to the waterford estuary. Whiting were caught almost every cast in singles and doubles on lug and mackerel cocktails. The whiting were good size some of them 2lb weight. About an hour before high tide the rod tip started moving and a slack line followed and a codling about a pound a half was caught. One more smaller codling was caught next cast. The whiting were still coming in evry cast and one dab was caught as the tide started going out. Just one of the whiting took a mussel but the mussel is very hard to tie up with elastic. Most of the fish took fresh lug / mackerel cocktails.
Re: waterford estuary 22/12/13
Mon Dec 23, 2013 2:11 pm
nice one lad,grand busy little session...2lbs whiting is a grand fish 
Re: waterford estuary 22/12/13
Mon Dec 23, 2013 2:30 pm
lad123 wrote:People: just myself
Duration: 5 hours
Tide: 4 hours coming in and 1 hour going out
Weather: little bit of a breeze
Bait: frozen lugworm , fresh lugworm , mackerel , mussel
Rigs: 2 hook flapper and 3 hook flapper hook size 1 and 1/0
Results: lots of whiting , a couple of codling , one dab
2lb whitin you sure they were not coalies
Report: the weather wasnt as bad as the last few days so i headed to the waterford estuary. Whiting were caught almost every cast in singles and doubles on lug and mackerel cocktails. The whiting were good size some of them 2lb weight. About an hour before high tide the rod tip started moving and a slack line followed and a codling about a pound a half was caught. One more smaller codling was caught next cast. The whiting were still coming in evry cast and one dab was caught as the tide started going out. Just one of the whiting took a mussel but the mussel is very hard to tie up with elastic. Most of the fish took fresh lug / mackerel cocktails.
Re: waterford estuary 22/12/13
Mon Dec 23, 2013 5:48 pm
well done on the few fish 2lb whiting is a lovely whiting biggest iv had this year was 1.5lb
Re: waterford estuary 22/12/13
Mon Dec 23, 2013 11:55 pm
Well done on a busy session if u had crab the cod might be a bit more plentyful
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Re: waterford estuary 22/12/13
Wed Dec 25, 2013 9:07 am
2 LB Whiting is a cracker from the shore, grand auld session, well done.
Re: waterford estuary 22/12/13
Thu Dec 26, 2013 11:42 am
nce one man that is a great whiting from the shore.
i have used the mussels for a few years now and i have found the best way to prepare them is to get 6 or 7 decent ones and make them into a sausage with bait elastic around a thin drinking straw. i found that the blue ones you get with the kids cup drinks work the best. you can get a decent bait on either end of the straw then pop them into the freezer to freeze them down so all those juices are saved. keep them frozen until you intend to use them on the beach then just pop your hook point into one end of the straw and slide your semi frozen bait onto your hook and you are good to go
you can prepare loads at home and they just slip straight onto your hook nicely presented and ready to fish. it also saves your fingers from getting frozen on the beach at this time of year too with all the juices running down your hands while you bind the elastic on. it's a well handy tip that an older angler showed us a few years back.
but the key is that all of those juices and scent so that they thaw and spread out on the sea bed where your bait ends up at instead of being lost as a puff of spray from a powerfull cast
that is a great whiting from the shore.i have used the mussels for a few years now and i have found the best way to prepare them is to get 6 or 7 decent ones and make them into a sausage with bait elastic around a thin drinking straw. i found that the blue ones you get with the kids cup drinks work the best. you can get a decent bait on either end of the straw then pop them into the freezer to freeze them down so all those juices are saved. keep them frozen until you intend to use them on the beach then just pop your hook point into one end of the straw and slide your semi frozen bait onto your hook and you are good to go
you can prepare loads at home and they just slip straight onto your hook nicely presented and ready to fish. it also saves your fingers from getting frozen on the beach at this time of year too with all the juices running down your hands while you bind the elastic on. it's a well handy tip that an older angler showed us a few years back.
but the key is that all of those juices and scent so that they thaw and spread out on the sea bed where your bait ends up at instead of being lost as a puff of spray from a powerfull cast
Re: waterford estuary 22/12/13
Thu Dec 26, 2013 11:47 am
Top tip there Al!