Dodger, Dun Laoghaire, 08/08/10

People:Dbrock & myself

Duration:9 - 5

Tide:?????

Weather:sunburnt to bits, with sunglass marks!!

Bait:mackeral & various feathers

Rigs:running legers

Results:Tope, Cod, Mackeral, Dogs & Gurnard

Report:
Headed out yesterday morning with Db for a crack at the tope we heard were running. Straight out of the harbour, drop for mack and withing 15 mins picked up enough for the day!

On we charged to a mark that usually throws up a few tope, but lo & behold half the small boat community of Ireland was already anchored up on it, great sign we thought! Unfortunately 3 hours later we didn't have so much as a run and at one point I counted 15 boats all anchored up fishing within a mile of each other.

Dennis knew of another mark we could try, so we motored onwards in search of the shark!! The tide run at this other mark was phenomenal, we tried to anchor up a couple of times but couldnt because of the run so drifted the reef next to it a few times and had cod & as many mackeral as you could shake a stick at, the place was thick with them. We eventually tied up off a bhoy, and got our mackeral baits down.

15 mins later I had the first run of the day, not a screeching run but certainly a tope, I struck into her and she took off, great scrap and 10 mins later lifted her into the boat, maybe 35lbs.

About an hour later Dennis had a run, struck in and he landed a lovely fish of about 30lbs. Job done, a great day out and had some fresh mackeral on the BBQ last night, terrific stuff!

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Cracking Tope there lads well done
Sounds like a great session

YOU DONE THE BUSSINESS THERE BOYS. WELL DONE A GOOD DAY IN THE OFFICE

Good day out there lads, excellent fishing and a super result . Nice to see that you've got bitten by the boat fishing bug there at last Alby

well done lads, nice to see some tope being posted not many from the east coast so far this year

That's some fine fish lads and thanks for the offer of the macs that day ☺ We where in one of the hired boats. I said in a post earlier that I think I was getting pulls from tope at the south of the muglins. Might be worth a try sometime for ya's.
Tommy

Well done i must give that spot a bash over the next few weeks

well done lads thats good news for a beginner like me to know that thare is fish out there[and nice ones at that]
love the pics as well,keep em comming

Nice Tope lads

Well done lads. Did either of those Tope have an orrange and black muppet stuck in their gobs. If so I want it back

Great fish lads, well done!

Cracking fish lads. Well done.

Have to say, there was some amount of makeral out there, for two hours we were trying to reach the bottom to get some codling, I had some codling on my tope traces the Macks were nearly the same size of em, great day out and as usual great craic

Well Done Dennis.... a Couple of Crackers there. I think it was quite amongst the amarda... Probable because of the amoutn of scent scattered all over the place

I was out with the bro in law and we managed a couple of 25lbers.

Kev

well done lads great fishing and lovely tope
fairplay to yas