Arklow beach or pier

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Arklow beach or pier

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Thinking of hitting arklow this weekend. What should I be expecting from the beach or the pier? What sort of tactics would be needed? Any advice is welcome, thanks.
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Re: Arklow beach or pier

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Micro whiting with couple of flats and a very odd small coalie
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Re: Arklow beach or pier

#3 Post by cd07 »

Exactly what john1 said don't bother! Fished there 2 weeks ago for 11hrs straight and got nothing but pin whiting on every one of the top baits we had
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Re: Arklow beach or pier

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That’s grim, thanks for the heads up. Is there any good marks not too far from arklow?
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cd07 wrote:Exactly what john1 said don't bother! Fished there 2 weeks ago for 11hrs straight and got nothing but pin whiting on every one of the top baits we had
How did you last 11hrs?
Decent marks just north and south of arklow. Tiny whiting are a bit of a plague though.
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Re: Arklow beach or pier

#6 Post by RoryH »

Fished the beach today. As said, pin whiting for the most part. Also managed a small smooth hound and what I think was a small ling, but I could be wrong on the latter. Used crab and rag. Would have liked a few flats but that’s fishing.
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Re: Arklow beach or pier

#7 Post by davybrown99 »

Probably a rockling. Lots of them there too.
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Re: Arklow beach or pier

#8 Post by RoryH »

Ah yes, that makes a bit more sense now
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#9 Post by cd07 »

davybrown99 wrote:
cd07 wrote:Exactly what john1 said don't bother! Fished there 2 weeks ago for 11hrs straight and got nothing but pin whiting on every one of the top baits we had
How did you last 11hrs?
Decent marks just north and south of arklow. Tiny whiting are a bit of a plague though.
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