People:Me
Duration:3 hrs
Tide:2hrs flood and 1 ebb
Weather:Mild, slight breeze, some showers.
Bait:Fresh rag, frozen lug and mackerel
Rigs:2 hook flappers, single clipped.
Results:Rockling, pin whiting, small codling and coalfish.
Report:
I happened to be in Belfast on Wednesday afternoon and with a spare half hour to kill, called in to have a look at Belfast Angling Centre which had just received a consignment of fresh rag. So I took a bag and must say they were in tip-top condition. Now that I had some fresh bait it made sense to use it so off to the Wee County. There was a nice bit of surf coming in with no wind to speak of and although it seemed cold when I first got out of the car, by the time I was suited and booted I was quite comfortable. This beach must be a bit like the one Rockhunter described in his First bass of 2014 report, flat but steeper in the last 30m with a distinct change in gradient, (not that I was expecting bass!). It was here that I aimed the close in rod and even while I was baiting up the distance rod, the close in one was bouncing away. On retrieve it was a small 5 beard rockling on a rag bait. While I was re baiting this rod the other one started nodding, a small codling. The bites came steadily, mostly close in, with a double of small codling, then a double of pin whiting. Then, while I was re-baiting the distant rod, some line pulled off the close rod and the tip gave a couple of determined tugs. I tightened into it and could feel a decent weight pulling back, then through the surf came something about 2 feet long, white along 1 side and light brown on the other....you've guessed; a 2ft long, light brown and white plastic bag! Around high water the bites dropped off and there was a lot of weed for a while resulting in one lost rig. A mound of weed the size of a tackle box and the surf surge doesn't give you much of a chance. The weed cleared after a while and a few single codling to 25cm along with some more whiting and a single small coalie turned up but as the tide dropped away so too did the bites, par for this course. So with a total of 4 species and 13 small fish I called it a night.
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