Youghal 6th Jan 2024

[Doctor Hook]

First session of year, set off from Dublin at 5.30am and arrived in Youghal and had a line in the water approx 8.15am.

First time fishing Youghal (since I was a kid), beautiful place, sun rise was great. Sea was flat calm.

High tide was at 12pm, fished with fresh lug, squid, razor, peeler, mackerel. First fish was about 10 am, a nice little codling caught on lug/peeler. This was quickly followed by a second codling, which was bigger.

The dogs started to come alive just after that and fished until 1.30pm with only dogs taking the baits.

A friend had a full mackerel out, the rod took and almighty wallop down.... not sure what it was!

All in all, a good day out and two species down for the year.

[Teegerstk]

Great going, nice way to start the species list! That's part of what keeps me fishing, those rare moments where the rod goes ballistic but you end up with nothing. Happened at my closest mark to some other anglers a few years back, we couldn't figure out what it could've been. They lost it after 10 minutes!

[Doctor Hook]

Great going, nice way to start the species list! That's part of what keeps me fishing, those rare moments where the rod goes ballistic but you end up with nothing. Happened at my closest mark to some other anglers a few years back, we couldn't figure out what it could've been. They lost it after 10 minutes!

Absolutely, need to start adding more to the list