People:siert, myself
Duration:8 hours
Tide:ebb to flood spring
Weather:Overcast, wind n/w 1-3
Bait:crab, rag, squid, mack, razor
Rigs:feathers, gilling rig, my special whiting rig
Results:11 species, cod to 9lbs, whiting to 2.7lbs, haddock to 4lbs, pollock to 10lbs, ling to 12lbs, coalfish, red and grey gurnards, lsd, poor cod,pouting
Report:
Hi
Well, thank goodness we didn’t listen to the met eireann forecast for a small boats warning to force six of the south coast, and as a result we had a cracking days fishing off cork.
Arrived at the slip at 8am, to be greeted by a bitter n/w breeze, welcome to winter, seems autumn got skipped this year. After donning the winter woollies we headed off with siert doubtful that we would see outside the harbour, ( oh yea of little faith!)
We had a token drop near the oil terminal for some macks, and this proved fruitless, perhaps due to the water temp being 5deg. Brrrrr
Fortunately we had prepared for that and had plenty of bait, and we headed offshore, as we passed roches point, I could see siert starting to smile as the sea was flat, and so it stayed all the way out, some force 6.
We headed straight for a reef so siert could get his Pollock fix, and we were not disappointed , some super fishing on the gill with plenty of good fish to 10lbs, plus a bonus few ling to 12lb , pouting also grabbed the jelly worms, but no speci this time! When my arms started to get sore I suggested a move, and we headed for clean ground.
Even with very little wind the drift was 1.5-2.0kts which made for some difficult fishing but we were still getting a good mix of fish with codling , whiting, red and grey gurnard coming to the boat, it was then I suggested something radical, ( well radical for us) lets anchor for a change and by god I am glad we did.
Some cracking whiting were soon to put in an appearance, then a nice haddock of 4lbs to siert, who also picked up a cracking whiting of 2.7lbs, just shy of a speci. It was at that point I decided to get out the special big whiting rig , 60lb mono snoods, 8/0 hooks and large muppetts, I was after big fish.
With large Mack flappers attached to the hooks, as soon as it hit the bottom, bang, fish on and a good one, up comes a lovely 5lb cod, ( I had sierts attention, 2nd drop, bang another one, then some cracking whiting ( for me a cracking whiting is over 2.5lb!! I am fussy about whiting)
By now Siert was looking for his biggest rigs in the box, and as he was doing this I mentioned ( and dezzer will know about this) it’s about time a double figure cod turned up, BANG, fish on, and this was a bigger fish, up to the net comes a lovely 9lb cod, close enough and my biggest this year. I added three more 8-9lber’s before it was time to head as darkness was coming in fast.
It just goes to show if you can get out there is still some great sport to be had, we ended up with 11 species for the day ,and a full freezer each, cannot be bad, then like an idiot I listened to the radio on the way home and discovered we are all going to get screwed , rather put a dampener on the day
Regards
screeming
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