edelboy 20th and 21st howth

People:davebouy. rhys. ian and myself

Duration:tues 5.30 til 9.30 weds 5.30 till 10

Tide:high tide was 7

Weather:tues windy weds flat calm

Bait:fresh macks

Rigs:hokais sabikis

Results:tues 40 macks 1 doggie weds 130 macks 4 doggies and some minis

Report:tuesday evening dave myself and my young son rhys[6] headed out it was a bit choppy but we went to the back of irelands eye were we got some shelter. we hit a few macks and this kept rhys on a high he
was soon telling dave how to catch them. reminding me that the last time he was out he caught the most
he then proceeded to do something i v never seen done.he says to dave i want to catch a dogfish and we tell him that you dont get doggies on sabikis that we were fishing for mackeral.he then says iv got a big fish .
thinking he had a full house i went to help him. in comes a doggie on sabikis no bait no nothing.told you was the retort. we managed 40 macks he got about 25 of them had to listen to him all the way home about how good of a fisherman he was.

wedsday nearly dident happen battery died starting the boat. loose terminal. lucky dave had the spare one in the van. as we looked over the city thunder and lightning and you could see the downpour. clear skies over howth. ian arrived. out we went first stop dropped and straight in to a shoal of macks full houses all around.
we moved a few times and got back on them. we then headed around to the bailey and started drifting they came to us in 1s and 2 s. i stuck out a second rod baited with macks it was been savaged as soon as it hit bottom doggies whiting and small codling and gurnard every few minutes youd here im in. and a shower of mackeral would rain on the boat we headed in at 10pm with140 the macks are back

Fair play lads its good to know the macks are there in numbers and its cool to hear your son has the bug,keep them away from the xbox and give them a rod

he has the bug since he was just out of nappies. he got sick last year out on the boat and i told him he was now in the national seasick association.but he was fine on tuesday so il just have to bring him tomorrow as promised .that means i can get out again on saturday by myself and maybe sunday again and then monday starts a new week ect ect ect

Glad to hear Derek...I'm headin' out all day tomorrow so should have no trouble gettin' the bait !!

Where did you get the most of them ?? The Bailey or the Island ??

What boat is Edelboy Derek?

i was around the back of the eye for a while testing out my new dory so you may have seen me. Little 14 foot open dory, white hull, blue and black gunnels with a suzuki 65 on it. Like you we got them patchy at the island but got a dozen or so and then got back to testing her. Launches great off the waves at 35 knots

Did you see the two Polish guys in the white inflatable, there were three guys out in a 10 foot inflatable a bit further up towards malahide.

Oh that was on tue

I nearly ran over them Guys in the inflatable last year...they were off the back of the Island in pretty rough water.

As I said before it's only a matter of time !!

il see you tomorrow so paul myself and rhys are out for 10.30 got some at the island and some at the bailey they were good shoals as some times we filled twice
the edelboy is a 22ft viking with 115 hp suzuki on the back i did see those gobshites on tuesday that same guy last year had his wife and a child about 8 in that inflatable they were towed in on two seperate occasions by the lifeboat i asked one of the lads would he not rip the side out of it he said waste of time they would only patch it up

Yeah I saw you out there drifting down from the white strikeliner. A while back I saw thos guys down on the slip with their car parked ACROSS the slip sitting there for about 15 minutes, The reason they had the car there is so they could run their 12 volt pump to inflate it.

I asked them to get a move on and said would they not inflate in the carpark and carry it down or even aprk properly on the slip. Cue blank looks all round.

i walk down with the punt its on wheels and if there blocking the slip i move as close to the car as i can they move quick enough if your out again give us a shout always nice to put a face to a name

Will do. See you out there.

very nice . I must try and get out behind irelands eye some time . You should try fishing for mackeral with a 12lb spin rod and small spinner they give decent fight then and less time unhooking