shankill beach

People:myself

Duration:2-6

Tide:ebbing

Weather:warm, breezy and a sea which was perfect

Bait:black lug and makerel

Rigs:pennel clip down and rotten bottom with an abu 7000 with 40lb line srtraight through but put a shock for long casting.

Results:3 cod, one was 5.5lb ,3 whiting on was 1lb.

Catch and Release:: Yes



Report:fished the rock spit up from where the shanganagh river flows into the beach, was hopping for a nice bass, as someone caught 6lb one here during the week. on the second cast caught double shot of a small codling and a small whiting. the next few casts landed me another whiting and then it went quite for a while.
i then tried fishing at range (160) and hooked a nice 5.5lb red cod the downside was ive lost tons of gear at this point and had to move down the beach into the clean ground. only got another small cod and a 1lb whiting.
not bad.
hopefully ill get a digital camera for x-mas as im jealous of people with pictures on their reports.

Great fish Gazo, seems a few quids worth of lost lead is needed to pull out the bigger fish, fair play for perseverance.

Nice one I used to fish that beach when I was a kid we stayed at the caravan site year after year I also fished Bray harbor(left hand side) it was also good for cod...Lazy

thats a nice cod from shankill surprised to see you didnt get any coalies theres a load of hem on kiliney. have you ever tried corbawn lane???

have tried it off the boat but not off the shore. nah coundnt bag any collies but they have been a nusiuence getting in the way of better fish as most of them are small on the other side of the beach.

ye theres plenty of them around there alright. were you fishing into the rocks or beside it? i remember i used to fish in between the two rivers down there is that still fishing well

you know the big rockspit that goes out to about 200 yards when the tides out. its about 200 yards up from the first river on the killiney shankill border

Ye i know it well used to fish there all the time for wrasse and pollock when i was a nipper must give it a try over the christmas for the cod 5.5 pound is a clonker from that beach