Duration: 19.30 - 22.45
Tide: HW approx 23.00
Weather: Slight breeze, dry, cool
Bait: Fresh mack, fresh lug, (re)frozen lug, fresh mussel
Rigs: 3 hook flapper, one hook pulley
Results: 4 dabs, 4 flounder (new species for me), 2 doggie's
Report: After spending an hour or so digging some lug and collecting some mussels at Monkstown, I headed down to my mark in eager anticipation after not throwing a line in last weekend (spent most of last weekend painting at home
)Put the 3 hooker out first, baited with frozen lug and tipped with mack, then put the pulley out with a nice juicy fresh lug(huge
).Not a bite on the first 2 casts with the 3 hooker, but then the tip started knocking on the third cast - a double of dabs. Baited up again and cast back into the same spot, 15 mins later a double of flounder (new species, so well chuffed
). Baited up again, cast into same spot - a triple (2 dabs 1 flounder) Whilst I was kept busy with the 3 hook flapper, the pulley rig was coming back with the bait stripped but no bites
- Maybe it was crabs 
I tried using bait elastic but the hook was still coming back bare - and no bites - All that effort digging fresh lug, and what for
Tried some mussel on the pulley, that didnt work either.
Tide was coming in now with waves splashing upto where I was fishing from, so common sense said I had to move. I reeled in after a couple more bites and had a flounder and doggie double
Moved to a spot higher up the rocks and felt quite dissapointed I had to move as the fish were coming thick and fast, it was around 22.00 when I moved.
Cast out both rods again, no bites on either rod.
Put on bigger baits on the 3 hook flapper thinking it might create a bigger scent trail, it worked to some degree, I had another doggie, but the bites had become slow so packed up and set off home.All in all not a bad session really, but strange there was no Whiting, and strange how the frozen lug out fished the fresh lug (something to do with the hook size and ratio of 3 hook to 1 hook rig maybe
, thought I had had a flounder or 2 before but they were dabs with some odd colouration 
- I believe the trick with flounder is to run your finger along the back(tail to head) and they should only be rough to touch down the spine, whereas the dabs are rough everywhere.
