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People:Myself, Mo and Daithi
Duration: 8pm-3am. 25/08/2012
Tide: confused
Weather: slack wind and calm seas
Bait: Peeler Crab, Mackerel, Squid.
Rigs: Pulleys and 1 hook flappers
Results: Smoothound, Dab, Whiting, LSD, Ray.
We arrived at the beach shortly after 7pm and were fishing by 8.
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The sea was very coloured with a bit of a break on the surface.
Things were very slow ( a few pups) untill it got dark.
As darkness fell we started to get the odd dogfish and the pups were still shredding baits.
Shortly after 1am Daithi got a nice smoothie about 4lb, this was followed by another 2 about 15-20 mins apart.
I got a good bite about 2.30, left it to develop but rod the remained motionless.
A couple of minutes later I noticed a few nudges on the rod tip.
I lifted into the fish and thought to myself " this is a nice fish"..
When reeling the fish in I said to myself this isnt a smoothie, must be a clonker of a dogfish.
Landed the fish on the beach, a cracking little Ray with a wingspan of about 45 cm.
I was more than delighted with my first Ray of the year, my first Ray ever in actuall fact.
All in all it was a cracking evening for fishing, the weather was kind, the seas were calm, and the Ray were obliging.
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