Arklow beach & Wicklow harbour

Arklow
Weather, not great, northerly wind
Tide: around high water
Bait: rag, Mac, squid & crab
Results: tub gurnard, baby smooth hounds & a little tope
Wicklow harbour
Results: whiting &doggies

Decided to head out of Dublin seeing it was a Sunday afternoon and most local spots would have busy with day trippers, no real plan but ended up in Arklow cos it can throw up a bit of everything, was half hoping I might chance a ray but I think conditions had turned against me.
Got fishing an hour and a half before high water and baits were coming back untouched till after the top of the tide, first up was a gurnard, then I had a few tiny hounds, all on rag, finished off with a little tope caught on a Mac/squid combo. Crab baits caught nothing. Wasn’t a great session bu Nice to get 2 species that I hadn’t caught this year, gurnard and tope( even if he was tiny)
Stopped off on Wicklow harbour on the way home, to use up a bit leftover bait, had a couple of whiting and doggies, a few lads fishing there and a had bit of yap with them, one of whom turned out to the one and only “fishface” off here. Sound lads and a bit of craic.
Packed up shortly after as the bites had dried with up the drop of the tide.

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Nice session Greendag! Those little tope are great little scrappers

Was there any macs about. Tried the pier 3 weeks ago and had none. This time last year I had a hape of macs

Was there any macs about. Tried the pier 3 weeks ago and had none. This time last year I had a hape of macs

Plenty of lads fishing for’em on Wicklow pier, I didn’t see any caught