Sea Angling Ireland

Headed out for a few hours Saturday evening with the brother. Hit Newcastle beach just after 7pm. High tide around 1am. An hour in and hit a small Doggie followed by 2 more. All on Rag. Went quiet until about 10PM when I changed the bait to crab. 1lb12 ling followed by another 1lb 7.
Ran out of crab so switched to black lug. Just after mid night rod tip bent over and reeled in a nice 2lb 13 flounder. Brought him home for the table. Rain got very heavy after that so packed up just after high tide passed. Fairly wet by the time we got back to the car but enjoyable session. Pics to follow. Tight lines

a few decent fish there that's a good flounder.

thats good going spandito ,was it the co,down beach ?

spandito wrote:Headed out for a few hours Saturday evening with the brother. Hit Newcastle beach just after 7pm. High tide around 1am. An hour in and hit a small Doggie followed by 2 more. All on Rag. Went quiet until about 10PM when I changed the bait to crab. 1lb12 ling followed by another 1lb 7.
Ran out of crab so switched to black lug. Just after mid night rod tip bent over and reeled in a nice 2lb 13 flounder. Brought him home for the table. Rain got very heavy after that so packed up just after high tide passed. Fairly wet by the time we got back to the car but enjoyable session. Pics to follow. Tight lines

Great fishing pal . Haven't fished Newcastle on YEEEAARS. What part of the beach did you fish? Love to get down soon , heard you can get a few plaice off it in spring .

m.b3 wrote:a few decent fish there that's a good flounder.

Thanks Mate, Always good to get out

family guy wrote:thats good going spandito ,was it the co,down beach ?

Cheers, We were about 150 meters to the left after crossing the tracks. I've never fished a beach in Wicklow and not caught something. In comparison to at least 20 outings up around the Louth coast with at least 15 of them complete blanks!!!
Gonna stick to the South Side of Dublin from now on

joe clancy wrote:

spandito wrote:Headed out for a few hours Saturday evening with the brother. Hit Newcastle beach just after 7pm. High tide around 1am. An hour in and hit a small Doggie followed by 2 more. All on Rag. Went quiet until about 10PM when I changed the bait to crab. 1lb12 ling followed by another 1lb 7.
Ran out of crab so switched to black lug. Just after mid night rod tip bent over and reeled in a nice 2lb 13 flounder. Brought him home for the table. Rain got very heavy after that so packed up just after high tide passed. Fairly wet by the time we got back to the car but enjoyable session. Pics to follow. Tight lines

Great fishing pal . Haven't fished Newcastle on YEEEAARS. What part of the beach did you fish? Love to get down soon , heard you can get a few plaice off it in spring .

As above, about 150 meters to the left after crossing the tracks. Nice and handy with the car plus its only 45 minutes drive from the house.
Ive a busy schedule the next 3 weeks but will defo get back down again around the middle of April, you are more than welcome to join. Drop me a PM if interested and ill give you a shout closer to the time.

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Cracking flounder and rockling mate fair play!

that's a specimen flounder is it not? any idea of the length of it?
crackin big rockling too
two lovely fish. well done

chuckaroo wrote:that's a specimen flounder is it not? any idea of the length of it?
crackin big rockling too
two lovely fish. well done

ISFC specimen weight for flounder is 1.1 kg or 2.426 lb. I'll hazard a guess at shore rockling from the picture, no specimen weight for ISFC but the UK record is 1lb 9oz, specimen weight is 1lb; well worth a good soaking.

Cracking Fishing. Absolutely beautiful Flounder! It looks like it's "Oven-Ready"

spandito wrote:

m.b3 wrote:a few decent fish there that's a good flounder.

Thanks Mate, Always good to get out

its been hard work in this weather down south and now the weekend coming isn't looking great

I have been thinking about Newcastle beach for my return to beach fishing this has defiantly made up my mind but will wait until the plaice come in late April/May neap tides ?
mickser

kilcoole would be worth shot Mickser you can cast out for plaice,dogs and dabs in the run and drop inside for dabs and flounder with the odd bass in closer. had some decent sessions there.