edelboy june16th costa del howth

People:myself

Duration:11 til 6

Tide:high water was 3 pm

Weather:el scorchio

Bait:fresh macks

Rigs:sabkis, hokias, shrimp.

Results:preety awful

Report:headed out on what i can only discribe as the perfect sea.not a cloud in the sky or a ripple on the horizon
went around to were myself and davebouy had been productive last week. tried a few drifts blanked. so started to use the fishfinder stopping over gullys showing fish. this produced 2 whiting.went up as far as the baily hit 1 mack.baited up the second rod and drifted slowly back down. blank .after a couple of hours of this i decided to try irelands eye heading across stopped over other fish on the finder .blanked. the back of the ireland had about 15 boats all fishing. including a charter full of punters .slotted in to a drift another mackeral 3 hrs after i got my first. ishould have mentioned while i was at the baily a survey ship was going up and down and every time it past the hull of my boat kept clicking like a sparking sound. it then followed me over to the back of the island.same again all the boats made this noise as it past them.
i had agreat day on my own. doing what i love fishing. in a comfort that you seldom get out on the sea.
im just wondering if this survey vessel and its equipment had any thing to do with the lack of fish.i caught nothing on the ground bait and 5 single mackeral for the whole day and all the other boats i spoke to had also blanked .also none of the seals were in the water. there normally hounding the boats so apart from 5 macks and 2 small whiting i got 7 hours of total tranquillity its a hard life but some one has to have it

Was out Wed myself and seen that Silver Survey Ship, don't know what it was doing and didn't stay around long enough to check it out.

Bert tried for Macks around Balscadden and the head while I was setting up his new GPS and inputting one of my marks on the bank, but not a bite (just as well we had plenty of other bait ourselves).

I seen all the boats around the back of the island and spoke to 2 of them later on the pier and as you said things were very quite. On the other hand we had a cracker of a day's fishing just a few miles away from you (see my report). Just goes to show, last week you had plenty of Macks and we had only 2.

At least you got out for a bit of fishing on a beautiful day.

Damien

damian was temped to hit the bank been such a cracker of a day kept saying to my self 6 macks and il go but never managed the elusive 6th went out last night got some king rag, lug ,and about 10 softies think il manage an assault on the bank saturday if the wind permits

Derek,

Weather is looking a lot better for Monday.I'm going to leave it until then.

Might go out later and get some macs for Monday

no prob paul il just have to exercise the crab till monday i hope the macks play ball with us on monday there very scarce out there to day