People:Harry And I
Duration:11.5 hours
Tide: yes
Weather:fog / sunny/ overcast
Bait:rag razor mack launce lug crab
Rigs:various
Results: (18) species

plaice,macks,lsd's,whiting,cod,launce,tub gurnard, grey gurnard,dabs,thornback ray,corkwing wrasse, ballan wrasse,Dragonet, pollack,poorcod,tompot blenny, pouting ,octopus.
Report:looked at the forecast on wednesday evening and decided to do a local hunt for a few flats with harry. when i woke i looked out the window into a thick fog

not to let that stop us we headed off to the old local hot spots with hopes of getting a bit of action like we got down wicklow way last weekend.
we had 3 plaice come into the boat the best been a cracker of a fish to harry measuring 37cm

we also had few dabs whiting and dogs from here. the fog lifted after a couple of hours.so after a while we moved of in search of the elusive tope again not a bite again

but we had smaller baits on the go aswell picking up plenty of dogs a couple of tubs and a good few grey gurnards dabs and mackerel with a few launce and a baby thornback ray

so after breaking our arms dragging dogs to the surface we headed to the shallow reefs in search of a few cod and pollack, wishfull thinking, we did manage a few small fish nothing over the two pound mark at this stage we done a count of the species we had in the day we were on 11 at this stage

not bad we tought, so off we went in search of a few wrasse first up was a ballen happy days so we were now after the smaller cousins we had a few corkwings and more ballans and for the life of me i could not manage a goldsinny to bring us to 14, im nearly guarenteed one any other day im out
still on 13 we went in search of the mini stuff where we plucked a few more wrasse along with a welcome couple of tompot blennys and an octopus to harry bringing us to my pb of 15 species i had on my own in the boat up here last year
still a few fish to be had i headed to a mark i have for pouting and there poor relatives and like clock work they were coming up in singles and doubles at a time so at 17 we headed out after a hound again as we got none earlier in the day not a sniff but we did manage a bonus dragonet on the small gear

at 18 we were delighted with ourselvs we gave it a good shot to try and make the magic 20, but it just didnt happen hopefully next time

i remember saying last year when i got the 15 in 7 odd hours that there was a potential to get 20 species in dublin this was close yet so far away, will just have to try much harder

I forgot to bring the usual camera and the one we had had low batteries but we did manage a few pictures to post up, all in all a fantastic day afloat and some new targets set
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