WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby fishy1987 » Fri May 25, 2012 7:37 pm

fished bally brannigan over low water and up today,small bits of lettuce on the rise though!well fishable.
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby Doberman » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:47 pm

Ballybrannigan full grass today, not fishable at all
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby lugworm » Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:39 am

Ballycrenane full to the neck with the green shtuff..........fish for an hour before high water and actualy had to leave coz of torential weather conditions.......tide came right up to the cliffs and rain and thunder........u get picture :mrgreen:
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby sredmond » Sun Jun 10, 2012 4:59 pm

was fishing off the rocks down by white bay earlier, not much weed around there. Beach was clear also
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby surfandsun » Mon Jun 18, 2012 1:00 pm

Fished the Saleens on Saturday, All weed, a gale of wind and a current that swept everything sideways. Does anyone know where to fish the saleens in comfort. Tried Tramore beach yesterday much cleaner and more fun but no fish.
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby lucky13 » Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:37 pm

fished a favourite rock mark of mine on saturday between roches point and ballyandrean,big swells,on shore wind and the motherload of weed,had to move to the pier in ballcotton....yawn.
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby razor2 » Thu Jun 21, 2012 6:41 pm

Anyone know what the weed is like around east cork ballybraningan,ballycroneen, inch area fished it sunday and it was full of weed.Has it cleared up any bit since
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby lucky13 » Fri Jun 22, 2012 12:13 am

i think its still a bit dodgy,hopefully alot better than the weekend soon...
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby razor2 » Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:01 am

Just back not to bad very fishable
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby lucky13 » Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:34 am

any joy?
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby razor2 » Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:37 am

nothing not a bite :lol: :lol: :wink:
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby tomgrey » Fri Jun 22, 2012 5:06 am

I sent you a pm ray but just seeing your other posts now. Was Ballycroneen still buried with weed?
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby razor2 » Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:11 pm

it was full of weed near the car park but fine as the tide dropped off.There is some mountain of weed near the car park and the smell
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby Doberman » Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:51 pm

Looks like Inch is way worse than Ballybranigan.
Inch on low tide today, dont know hows fishing once its full tide.
Ballybranigan clean on low tide, some weed pushed in on half way in, was still fishable and got 58cm bass. Left earlier than other 5 guys, so dunno about theyr luck.

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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby razor2 » Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:16 pm

[quote="Doberman"]Looks like Inch is way worse than Ballybranigan.
Inch on low tide today, dont know hows fishing once its full tide.
Ballybranigan clean on low tide, some weed pushed in on half way in, was still fishable and got 58cm Bass. Left earlier than other 5 guys, so dunno about theyr luck.

They just had a few flounder
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby lugworm » Mon Jun 25, 2012 9:21 pm

Anyone know how white bay is for weed?
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby oli » Tue Jul 03, 2012 11:51 am

BB clean of weed...
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby robbiekennedy » Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:44 pm

well lads and lasses any story of weed round the ballyquin area
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby THE BROW » Sun Jul 08, 2012 1:03 am

tramore lookin very bad today
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Re: WEED WATCH - Waterford & Cork

Postby beachbuddy » Sun Jul 08, 2012 3:17 am

robbiekennedy wrote:well lads and lasses any story of weed round the ballyquin area


Don't know about the weed,but there were 14 headlamps on it the other night crazy or what :roll:
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