WEED WATCH - Wicklow / Wexford

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Re: WEED WATCH - Wicklow / Wexford

#81 Post by tight lines »

fished kilgorman friday 30/9 only small bits of weed but only a few small flounder and a eel
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#82 Post by Sparkie »

Fished ennareily last nite sat 1st October. No weed. Lots off hounds and not so bad sized whiting and dabs
Species 2011:coalie,whiting, 5bearded rockling,shore rockling, doggie, pollock,flounder,codling,dab,smoothhound,sea scorpion,ballan wrasse,Tope, tub gurnard, gray gurnard,plaice,bass,Bullhuss,cod

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Species 2013:Double figure smoothy off the beach,doggie,gray gurnard,codling,goalie,flounder,plaice,whiting,tope. Double figure huss off the beach,dab, bass,pouting,silver eel.
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Re: WEED WATCH - Wicklow / Wexford

#83 Post by corbyeire »

fair bit of weed on ballyhealy last night - the odd kelpy stalk - but just about fishable
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#84 Post by fisherman59 »

tinnaberna saturday 1st weed free
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#85 Post by paul skelly »

Hi lads , any word on south Wicklow or north Wexford, thanks :D
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Re: WEED WATCH - Wicklow / Wexford

#86 Post by tight lines »

graystones sth no weed behind the driving range 20/10/11
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#87 Post by paul skelly »

tight lines wrote:graystones sth no weed behind the driving range 20/10/11

Any fish? Was planing on hitting there tomorrow night .
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#88 Post by ID1957 »

Fished Arklow on Thursday 6pm-8pm. 15 kids fished. lots of whiting, dogs , dabs. No weed
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#89 Post by tight lines »

paul skelly wrote:
tight lines wrote:graystones sth no weed behind the driving range 20/10/11

Any fish? Was planing on hitting there tomorrow night .
1 wrass 1 dog 1 flounder
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#90 Post by paul skelly »

Fished graystones last night o sorry I mean I tried to fish it, totally unfishable s**t loads of weed and 6ft waves and bad swells :evil:
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#91 Post by sparkey+1 »

Was in killeny at the tea rooms and unfishable moved mark to greystones and every cast out brought in lots and lots of big s*it weed ask Creep... Lovely swell that screamed fish but only weed and weed and weed
Species 2012: Flounder, Whiting, Dublin Bay Codling, Coalie, 3 Beard Rockling, Shore Rockling, Bass, Dogfish, 5.2lb Starry Smoothhound (PB), Twaite Shad, Thornback Ray 5.8lbs (PB), LSD, Pollock, Ballan Wrasse, Cork Wing Wrasse, 43cm Flounder (PB)

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#92 Post by Sparkie »

paul skelly wrote:Fished graystones last night o sorry I mean I tried to fish it, totally unfishable s**t loads of weed and 6ft waves and bad swells :evil:
That was me leaving as use wer just getting on the beach. Was there enough time to set up one rod have one cast. Ended up goin Wicklow harbour to find it pretty much the same as greystones. Big swells and big amounts off weed. Did manage a few codling tho.
Species 2011:coalie,whiting, 5bearded rockling,shore rockling, doggie, pollock,flounder,codling,dab,smoothhound,sea scorpion,ballan wrasse,Tope, tub gurnard, gray gurnard,plaice,bass,Bullhuss,cod

Species 2012:coalie,doggie,codling,shore and 5bearded rockling,3bearded rockling,pouting,whiting,wrasse,bass,plaice,flounder,dab,smoothhound,hiss,tope,cod,tub and gray gurnard,Pollack

Species 2013:Double figure smoothy off the beach,doggie,gray gurnard,codling,goalie,flounder,plaice,whiting,tope. Double figure huss off the beach,dab, bass,pouting,silver eel.
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Re: WEED WATCH - Wicklow / Wexford

#93 Post by willie bendit »

tried north beach greystones sat.night,with 2 hrs to go to high water,the waves were almost at the base of the ramp,moved to the southbeach ,huge swells, headed to ennereilly,lumpin'it in.....couldnt hold bottem, wth 6oz fixed wires ,sea bed constantly shifting,pulling rigs right around....one dog to show for all the effort. headed for the chipper in ashford.....pretty calm and weedfree there :roll: :roll: :roll:
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#94 Post by paul skelly »

Sparkie wrote:
paul skelly wrote:Fished graystones last night o sorry I mean I tried to fish it, totally unfishable s**t loads of weed and 6ft waves and bad swells :evil:
That was me leaving as use wer just getting on the beach. Was there enough time to set up one rod have one cast. Ended up goin Wicklow harbour to find it pretty much the same as greystones. Big swells and big amounts off weed. Did manage a few codling tho.
Nice one on getting a few , we headed to bray harbour we had whiting,flounder and rockling blank saved so we went home wet but happy :lol:
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#95 Post by corbyeire »

south facing beaches were all covered last night
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#96 Post by tight lines »

lads any word with rostoonstown was thinking of fishing it friday night any info would be great thanks
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#97 Post by corbyeire »

see post above - all south facing beaches are full of weed
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#98 Post by dfella25 »

Lads anyone fishing North Wicklow beaches last night or today could you post up a weed report? Fishing a meet in the morning in Kilcoole with the Gravediggers.

Any update would be very much appreciated

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#99 Post by paul skelly »

dfella25 wrote:Lads anyone fishing North Wicklow beaches last night or today could you post up a weed report? Fishing a meet in the morning in Kilcoole with the Gravediggers.

Any update would be very much appreciated

Conor
Tried to fish it last night unfishable man :x
Got down and did not look bad done a lead test and after 2 mins was pulled down the beach and brought in a s**t load of weed. I'd say it will only get worse over the next day or two :evil:
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#100 Post by tight lines »

fished lacken friay 28/10 lots of heavy weed making for very hard fishing also was talking to some lads who tryed to fish the burrow and cullenstown but also very heavy weed
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