Duration:7pm-11pm
Tide:rising
Weather:cold Northeasterly breeze
Bait:rag/lug/mack
Rigs:2 and 3 hook flappers
Results:Pollock,Coalfish, Dogfish, Ballan Wrasse, Corkwing Wrasse, Shore Rockling, 3 Beard Rockling, Codling, Short spined sea scorpion, Dab
Report: Not having been out fishing for a couple of weeks due to the various ups and downs that life throws at you from time to time, I was anxious to blow the cobwebs off the rods, hit the road and hopefully have a good session



I arrived in Greystones just after 7pm and set up 2 rods, which I kept close to the wall as there were boats coming and going from the Harbour entrance. I had a couple of corkwing wrasse and some small pollock by the time Neil(Fishface) arrived with his mate Derek. Derek was fishing a small rod and Neil gave him some of his hard dug wicklow lug. I exchanged some rag with him for some lug and he gave a couple to Derek. Derek put one of these ragworms on his dinkyfishing rod and tossed it over the Harbour wall,,,where it settled a couple of feet away from mine. He started to tell me that he hadnt been fishing in 4 years when ,,,,BANG!!!,,his rod bent over and he sprung into action



Neil got in on the action next by landing a fine coalie of 37cms

I was catching plenty of small fish but the decent ones were coming in on either side of me







Derek headed off about 9pm a very happy camper after having a rod rattling night with plenty of wrasse and pollock to keep him busy. I started to cast out a bit further when darkness fell and the boats were all back in the harbour. At last I started to catch a few decent sized fish and had a couple of coalies and pollock.


37 was the magic number and it was honours even for us all. We couldn't seem to get anything over the 37cms mark,,,kind of like when the pin whiting all stop at 29 when you're looking for a 30cm one





