Peter Mc Cartain and my self went fishing in arklow on sunday 22 january, the plan was to try for a three beadrocking.
I got the tide wrong, so we end off fishing the dropping tide all day, in the middle of the day i got a good lean over and it turned out to a conger of about 8 lb, then about two hours later i got another conger about 4-5 lb
We fished till into the dark, but there was no more conger or three bear rockling, we two only two small whiteing and peter lost a strap conger in a snagg.
Bait; used mackeral
Tide; dropping
Trace; one hook trace with a rotton bottom
Over the last two years i have tried about 6 times for a speciem three beard rockling and to date i have not got one near the weight, largest fish was about 3/4 lb