Wicklow 24/6/17

Fished a Wicklow beach with a friend on Saturday from 5pm to midnight
Sea looked good with a westerly flattening it out and wind behind which was good for casting All I needed was the fish to play ball, was hoping to get smoothies and spotted ray which can be caught off this beach.
Wil had a smoothie of 4lb in close on his first cast with ragworm, It was quiet enough after that with just a few small flats and gurnard caught.
At about 9:30 I had a smoothie at distance on crab weighed in just under 6lb & I had a male spotted Ray next cast...fishing was busy from then on and a few more smoothies from pups up to about 4lb , doggies, flats and baby tope were caught. Happy enough with the session, haven't done a lot of fishing the last few years. Hopefully will get out a bit more this summer.#

Bait was frozen crab, rag, mac and sand eel

Was there much weed?

Fished a Wicklow beach with a friend on Saturday from 5pm to midnight
Sea looked good with a westerly flattening it out and wind behind which was good for casting All I needed was the fish to play ball, was hoping to get smoothies and spotted ray which can be caught off this beach.
Wil had a smoothie of 4lb in close on his first cast with ragworm, It was quiet enough after that with just a few small flats and gurnard caught.
At about 9:30 I had a smoothie at distance on crab weighed in just under 6lb & I had a male spotted Ray next cast...fishing was busy from then on and a few more smoothies from pups up to about 4lb , doggies, flats and baby tope were caught. Happy enough with the session, haven't done a lot of fishing the last few years. Hopefully will get out a bit more this summer.#

Bait was frozen crab, rag, mac and sand eel

Sounds like a nice session with a good mix of species, particularly the ray,

Busy session, well done on the ray

Yeah it was a good session to get back into it
Weed wasn't too bad but was there was like bait elastic and a pain to get off the line.

Good to see you still at it Al!, im in Sligo these days spoiled with the cracking rock fishing but i often miss the east coast smoothies! Yourself and mark should buzz up some time!

Ah Christo good to hear form you. That was my only session of the year so far unfortunately.
Didn't realise you were in Sligo, haven't been down to mark yet this year but I'd be up for a trip to Sligo with him anyway, would love a bit of rock fishing

Nice fishing man. Fair play. I'd love to catch a smoothy

Excellent session Al! I was there last Tuesday/18 Ennireilly beach and caught my first Smoothound (pup) no sign of sea bass thu. Loads of pin whittng to keep you busy, dogs and flounder caught that night too.

Thanks Zeke, Glad you got your first smoothie sounds like a busy session fair play. Smoothies seem to be slow off the ground this year, I think I was lucky to get a few decent ones...I must stick up the pics if I remember.