Cork harbour 27/09/19
Thu Oct 03, 2019 1:23 pm
So for not being fishing in 3 weeks i decided i needed to get out. Due to tide times and only being available friday night i decided to keep away from my local spots and head to cork harbour for the first time see if i could pick up some early whiting or coalies just for a bit of fun.
Weather was nice and calm
if i remember correctly low tide was around 11pm.
Bait was frozen crab, live rag, squid, mackeral and sandeel.
I met my mate at the chosen mark around 19.00 . I decided to cast one out far in the strong current and one in close for a conger. As soon as it became dark the conger rod went non stop i managed to pull one in drop another at the surface and miss a couple of more. My mate had 0 bites at this stage and he decided to go for conger also but with a no luck.
with the far out rod i was thumping our pulley pennel rigs with either crab or full squid. With the 7 ounce led barely holding i saw my rod take a clatter i picked it up and then line started stripping from my multi on a full squid. i began questioning what the hell this could me. It swam with the current taking me 50 yards down the quay while stripping line. after 5 minutes i see a flash of grey and i was like hardly a small tope.....
My mate managed to get down onto the steps and pulled it up and to my surprise it was a smoothhound. Absolutely delighted with this and my mate blanking we started firing both rods out far to see if there was anymore about but we got a dog each so the blank was off for him and i managed 3 species. 12.45 came along and we managed to persuade four star pizza to drop us a delivery not much else materialized bar another dog so we packed up at 2.30 am
Weather was nice and calm
if i remember correctly low tide was around 11pm.
Bait was frozen crab, live rag, squid, mackeral and sandeel.
I met my mate at the chosen mark around 19.00 . I decided to cast one out far in the strong current and one in close for a conger. As soon as it became dark the conger rod went non stop i managed to pull one in drop another at the surface and miss a couple of more. My mate had 0 bites at this stage and he decided to go for conger also but with a no luck.
with the far out rod i was thumping our pulley pennel rigs with either crab or full squid. With the 7 ounce led barely holding i saw my rod take a clatter i picked it up and then line started stripping from my multi on a full squid. i began questioning what the hell this could me. It swam with the current taking me 50 yards down the quay while stripping line. after 5 minutes i see a flash of grey and i was like hardly a small tope.....
My mate managed to get down onto the steps and pulled it up and to my surprise it was a smoothhound. Absolutely delighted with this and my mate blanking we started firing both rods out far to see if there was anymore about but we got a dog each so the blank was off for him and i managed 3 species. 12.45 came along and we managed to persuade four star pizza to drop us a delivery not much else materialized bar another dog so we packed up at 2.30 am
Re: Cork harbour 27/09/19
Thu Oct 03, 2019 4:20 pm
Well done on the hound. Plenty of them around the harbour.
That fish will making catching bass look boring. Great scrap off them
That fish will making catching bass look boring. Great scrap off them
Re: Cork harbour 27/09/19
Thu Oct 03, 2019 9:23 pm
yeah iv had them before from the east coast all the way in kerry also great scrap off them just wasnt expecting one but a surprise is always nice
Re: Cork harbour 27/09/19
Fri Oct 04, 2019 5:54 pm
Good report and great pics, any of that pizza left , it looks like my kinda grub!
Re: Cork harbour 27/09/19
Mon Oct 07, 2019 1:12 pm
Thats some result on the pizza --- oh and the smoothie!
Re: Cork harbour 27/09/19
Fri Oct 25, 2019 7:05 pm
Lovely Fishing Eddie..