three beaches in wicklow 17/4/12

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roger de dodger
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three beaches in wicklow 17/4/12

#1 Post by roger de dodger »

People:me and eric

Duration:7 till 11.30

Tide:full at 11ish

Weather:strong southerly wetish

Bait:rag lug crab

Rigs:cascade and pully

Results:bass ,flounder,whiting,dogs,rockling,smoothhound




Report:set up on first mark perfect surf then realized we would be washed off the beach well before high tide eric got a small flounder 15 min later packed up and short trip to beach no2 ,more exposed and surf was all over the place like fishing in a washing machine :evil: 5 min later packed up and headed to mark no 3 :oops: thank god conditions where perfect and our escape route looked good ,nice shelter and a steady enough flow of fish ,one and only bass came after dusk followed by dogs ect eric managed a few whiting out at distance and i got my first smoothy of the year only a pup but great to see 8) eric took a few pics so he may put em up if he,s not sulking :lol: oh we had to move once more about an hour before hw as we ran out of beach again,only 30 yards this time :roll:big surf 8)
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Re: three beaches in wicklow 17/4/12

#2 Post by grady »

nice fishing there lads, well done on first smoothound in this year Rodger :wink:
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Re: three beaches in wicklow 17/4/12

#3 Post by fishy1987 »

sounded like a bit of a rollercoaster,having to change marks a few times.well done on the smoothie :P only caught a couple of tiny pups too but there is something oddly satisfying about those cue little guys :D
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Re: three beaches in wicklow 17/4/12

#4 Post by wayne riley »

it was bad yesterday, got out for an hr myself and between the cold wind and lashing rain i couldnt wait to get home :cry:
well done on ur pup, hope the bigger 1s are on the way.
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Re: three beaches in wicklow 17/4/12

#5 Post by stevo74 »

nice one rodge, good to see the bass and smoothies arriving up here!
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Re: three beaches in wicklow 17/4/12

#6 Post by sparkey+1 »

Fair play rodger and a pup is a pup... so there on the way...coming to a beach near you :P oh! and the bass any size to it...
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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Re: three beaches in wicklow 17/4/12

#7 Post by tomgrey »

Nice one roger, good session, get this eric guy to post the pics before I find out where he lives and throw papers in his garden. :lol:
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Re: three beaches in wicklow 17/4/12

#8 Post by roger de dodger »

sparkey+1 wrote:Fair play rodger and a pup is a pup... so there on the way...coming to a beach near you :P oh! and the Bass any size to it...
the bass was what i call a lucky bass 39 cm :lol: :lol:
the flounder where so full if you gave their belly a little light squeeze they threw up a few shrimp for ya :lol: :lol: :lol:
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