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Monkstown wall

Postby Morgan44 » Wed Nov 04, 2015 10:56 pm

The good news is that there are plenty of cod coming off the wall , the bad news is that they are all about 12ounces and in amongst a plague of pin whiting . Fresh crab was stripped and the hooks clean in 5 mins and switched to frozen and only got a couple more minutes out of that . Could of been crab but as soon as the bait hit the bottom the tip was rattling with the interest of what I'm presuming were whiting . Tried a live bait rig behind a 5/0 and soon could see a whiting had done its job but didn't have a touch . At least he swam off non the worse for his ordeal when I wound in and At least the weed was not around considering the mountains of it I encountered on yaughal beach Monday night .
Thought it was too early to be fishing the wall but sometimes you just have to give it a go . I'd keep your crab for somewhere else at the moment guys

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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby chuckaroo » Thu Nov 05, 2015 1:06 am

So when could you expect (how early would you hope for) the better cod to be moving in..?
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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby Morgan44 » Thu Nov 05, 2015 8:44 am

Hello chuckaroo, there will be guys with far greater knowleadge of the wall than me but this time last year I was catching good numbers of cod between 3and 6lb from there but in my opinion most spiecies have been late this year for what ever reason ,global warming adding to increase in water temperature , which craft or the cod are boycotting the muster region because Paul o Connell was sold to France I'm not sure . Realistically I would say the the better sized fish are up to a month behind the smaller fish and a drop in temperature would help , I think the larger fish are still out at sea feeding on sprat and mackerel as they are still about so they don't have any need to come in to shallower water yet . I will give it a go next week but I knew last night as soon as I arrived at the wall it was too early as tide and time were perfect and I was the only guy there . Couple of guys arrived after a bit but think everyone was in the same mindset that it was worth trying .
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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby chuckaroo » Thu Nov 05, 2015 11:27 am

thanks for the reply Morgan
well lets just hope that they are there next week when i head down there ;)
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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby ste c » Thu Nov 05, 2015 4:26 pm

Sorry to say its looking like a bad year for cod
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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby shortcircuit » Thu Nov 05, 2015 5:22 pm

I wouldn't jump to conclusion that it's going to be a bad year for cod- in inshore water temperature terms we are a month behind where we would normally be this time of the year. October was insanely mild. I would be surprised if the cod don't arrive once temperatures finally start to drop.

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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby bogwoppit » Thu Nov 05, 2015 8:11 pm

shortcircuit wrote:I wouldn't jump to conclusion that it's going to be a bad year for cod- in inshore water temperature terms we are a month behind where we would normally be this time of the year. October was insanely mild. I would be surprised if the cod don't arrive once temperatures finally start to drop.


I'd have to agree, temps are very high for this time of year so you'd expect them to be late. Reports from elsewhere suggest this year the average size could be significantly higher than last year with similar stock numbers.
North Sea cod stocks have recently been taken off the red list.
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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby shortcircuit » Fri Nov 06, 2015 2:47 pm

bogwoppit wrote:
shortcircuit wrote:I wouldn't jump to conclusion that it's going to be a bad year for cod- in inshore water temperature terms we are a month behind where we would normally be this time of the year. October was insanely mild. I would be surprised if the cod don't arrive once temperatures finally start to drop.


I'd have to agree, temps are very high for this time of year so you'd expect them to be late. Reports from elsewhere suggest this year the average size could be significantly higher than last year with similar stock numbers.
North Sea cod stocks have recently been taken off the red list.


If you keep an eye on the UK fishing facebook pages, you will see that there are some excellent cod being caught from the shore at the moment
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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby RockHunter » Sat Nov 07, 2015 2:31 pm

Water temperatures are about avarage for the time of year, particularly as it was a cold summer so the water temperatures were below average coming into autumn. What usually brings the cod in close to shore is the first big Atlantic storm of the autumn. We haven't had one yet just a few blustery days. A few years ago cod showed up in late September after a big storm.
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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby donal domeney » Sat Nov 07, 2015 4:04 pm

Took a run down that way this morning to see for myself. Tides were perfect and crossing over Wellington bridge, the western side of the city, I could see no flood water coming over the weir. :D
when I got down there was only one other angler there and he was gone after an hour. Always a bad sign where the place is looking vacant

Doublers of fish every cast with only the odd whiting making it over the 30cm mark.

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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby donal domeney » Sat Nov 07, 2015 4:21 pm

RockHunter wrote:Water temperatures are about avarage for the time of year, particularly as it was a cold summer so the water temperatures were below average coming into autumn. What usually brings the cod in close to shore is the first big Atlantic storm of the autumn. We haven't had one yet just a few blustery days. A few years ago cod showed up in late September after a big storm.


Air temperatures are also up and this is keeping the beaches warm when the tide is out. So when the tide comes in over it the water warms a little bit more. This would be more prevalent on the Cork cod beaches where the tide would go out about a 100yds at low water.

A lot of the early cod that do come in after a blow in September are hanging around out on the reefs all summer. Posted here about them
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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby guernica84 » Sun Nov 08, 2015 11:08 am

What a photo - stunning.

Same story here really, good few grey cod around in daylight but tiny. Any hope of a decent one rests on a red cod in the rough. Storm-wise, it's supposed to kick off up here today and blast for a few days. Could this be what we're waiting for?
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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby shortcircuit » Sun Nov 08, 2015 5:23 pm

I was above in Dublin last night and driving back down to Cork the weather was very wet and windy but seemed quite nice when I got back here at about 15.30 . Was it rough earlier today ?
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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby JimC » Sun Nov 08, 2015 9:07 pm

Twas howling this morning with rain as well! Not nice!
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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby donal domeney » Mon Nov 09, 2015 12:03 pm

Except for the shower of rain that came with the rainbow it was tee shirt and sun glasses with only a slight ripple in the water

One of the nice things about fishing Monkstown is that it's well sheltered from westerly winds
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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby donal domeney » Sun Nov 29, 2015 11:47 am

Was down that way yesterday so I had a few casts, small cod every cast no whiting. stayed for about 2 hours after low water.
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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby mickser » Sun Nov 29, 2015 2:46 pm

weather permitting I would be fishing for cod on this week of low tides = December 17 wens 03:24
08:56
15:39
21:39
3.6m
1.1m
3.9m
0.9m
Thu
18 04:23
09:58
16:40
22:44
3.5m
1.2m
3.8m
1.0m
Fri
19 05:29
11:06
17:47
23:52
3.5m
1.3m
3.7m
1.0m
Sat
20 06:38
12:17
18:57
3.5m
1.3m
Sun 3.7m
21 00:58
07:45
13:25
20:07
0.9m
3.6m
1.1m
3.8m
Mon
22 02:00
08:47
14:26
21:09
0.8m
3.8m
0.9m
3.9m
I have not fished in two years hoping to change that this year with anything ?
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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby ninted » Tue Dec 01, 2015 12:19 pm

Anything cod-wise in monkstown lads? I've 2 buddies coming this weekend so I'm trying to get them onto some fishies.
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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby donal domeney » Tue Dec 01, 2015 6:35 pm

I posted a report two posts up
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Re: Monkstown wall

Postby rederic » Tue Dec 01, 2015 8:11 pm

I fished the wall yesterday afternoon from 2 to 4 o clock. That was an hour before and an hour after low water.
I used crab sand eel and squid . i caught one good whiting , not another tap
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