fishing in cork

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fishypaul
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fishing in cork

#1 Post by fishypaul »

hi lads was going to go to monkstown tommow just had look at tides they are very high not great for fishing anywhere else i could go
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#2 Post by darrenh »

hi fishypaul the back of the train station in cobh isnt fishing too bad for congers me and a mate fished there fri evening from the off we were into congers we must have had about 6 congers all returned nothing huge biggest 4ft long great craic though if your into catching congers had 2 other rods out only 2 doggies showed up hope this is some help the mark we fished is right next to the railway footbridge
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#3 Post by fishy1987 »

darren great to hear :D what way was the tide?ill be heading down later on and was debating deepwater v scratching at the pier!don,t have a drop net so i was thinking the steps would be good to land them?
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#4 Post by fishypaul »

thanks alot lads for the info mite give it a go :D
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#5 Post by darrenh »

fishy1987 wrote:darren great to hear :D what way was the tide?ill be heading down later on and was debating deepwater v scratching at the pier!don,t have a drop net so i was thinking the steps would be good to land them?
fergal last hour of the ebb we werte getting ells for about 2 hrs up losing a few of course
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#6 Post by fishy1987 »

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fergal last hour of the ebb we werte getting ells for about 2 hrs up losing a few of course[/quote]


some horrible night of it last night dar my god.by the steps lost a rake of tackle :roll: unmerciful note to self dont be lazy weaklinks and spark plugs the next time what a rough area but hey id loose rigs in a swiiming pool.as my leader ran out i went few hunfred yards to nxt set of steps.2 trips first with my bait etc(not a good idea by the time i was walking back with the rods there were 3 dogs at my bait got 3 only had 1 left :twisted: :twisted: i was like a demon even managed to get there gobs on some razor how is that even possible!to cap it off lost my lighter another few rigs i give up USELESS!HAVENT had a more disheartening session in my life! :oops: eban will tell ya if theres a snag to be found ill wrap a lead/rig around it under it ontop of it!keeps me up at night lol oh god!
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