Arklow
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Balbriggan
5
December 2003
Fished
the rocks last night 2 hours up to high water bait used mussel and squid plenty
of small codling about all around a pound not great but in numbers provide some
good sport.
Keith
Balscadden
19
August 2003 Time: Day
A
few Mackeral caught late evening from high rocks. Quite a few caught from
the low rocks.
Silver Feathers. HW 17.21
JK
10
July 2003 Time: Day
4.5 lb Cod caught from Balscadden yesterday afternoon ( Wednesday ). No
idea of baits used.
A bit strange to hear of cod in Balscadden!!
JK
9
July 2003
Fished Balscadden last Friday and Sunday, Weather was good, overcast with
a light westerly 2-3. Fishing is poor at the moment with very few mackeral
taken all day, interestingly some caught on the mid ebb with coloured
feathers. A lot of small mackeral returned, which is always good to see. A
couple of guys fished ragworm for LSDs or Flats, but only managed to get
the many pin whiting. The summer madness seems to have peaked for now, in
mid June when the shoal came in and stayed around, with only a few anglers
braving the rocks now. If I could ask everyone who fishes Balscadden to
clean up after them , ie discarded line, plastic bottles, trace packaging
etc, as not only is it despicable,its DANGEROUS. A person on Sunday
tripped up over some discarded line. Not Funny whilst fishing off cliffs
30 feet high with rocks beneath. Cheers and tight lines. JK.
PS. has anyone been fishing the Bailey lately? If so please post a
message.
JK
Bray
10
February 2004
Fished Bray using Macrel. Tide just on its way in.
using two rods. got 1 cod about 2 lb and 3 Wightning about 1 lb. also some
good bite's.
Seems ok there at the moment.
John T
9
January 2004
Went down this evening to fish the last hour or so before low water. Used black
lug tipped with mackeral.Cos i had been told a 4.5lb cod was taken last sunday
at the match down there. Not so much as a nibble although i think i can claim
the shore caught record for weed.Anyway i have had enough of paying thru the
nose for the black lug, if there arnt any rag or lug in the shop i am staying in
to watch Pat Kenny!!!!
Liam
15
December 2003
Fished
for 2 hours from 6.30 to 8.30.low tide at about a quater to 10. had about 10
whiting one or two half decent. caught on frozen mackeral, used frozen muscles
to no effect
Liam
12
December 2003
Fished just about 100 yard to the left of the sea life place. fished from about
6 to 9, tides was out at 7.30 but still had a good bit of sport. plenty of
whiting to about 1 pound, one codling and loads of doggies one which was huge.
used lug and squid coktails for those and chanced a bit of frozen mackeral
without any success
Liam
20
October 2003
Fished
3hrs of the ebbing tide at Bray promenade, as part of my ongoing goal to fish
new marks. Used lug, squid, mussel, mackeral & sandeel. Caught a small
whiting and a pout (my first). Three guys nearby caught a couple of doggies and
then a 2.5lb coalie, just as I was packing up.
Neil Frankish
7 December 2002 Time:Day
Fished form 11 till 3 high tide being about 1.30. It
was a day for 100% men, Luke was too hungover to venture out. He was
probably right.......Blank.
Not a single bite. Was using mackerel, rag, sand eel
and Mussels. Will never fish this beach ever again during the day......I
had been attracted to the beach because there was a nice surf on but Luke
told that me there are only 12 bass in Dublin Bay and they don't live in
Bray. And it pissed rain all morning !!
Ed
Burke
Carlingford
6
April 2003 Time:Day
Club outing to Carlingford, Sunday 6th. Fished from 10am to 3pm. Full tide
was at 2pm. Weather misty and a Northern breeze was blowing (not too
strong), we had the best of bait but sadly not one of the 14 fishing had a
bite all day. Fished over the incoming tide, tried in close and far out
but nothing was biting.
Damien Warren
Clotherhead
27 December 2002
Fished for the first time in three years. Fished off
the pier, windy conditions, good colour in the water, fished the rising
tide and two hours after. Bait was lug and mussel. Blanked!!! Only a
couple of Whiting bites seen. I suppose the three seals hanging around
didn't help matters! Anyone fished this mark successfully? How?
John
Grace
Dalkey
14
June 2003 Time: Day
Took the two lads with me to fish off "Alby's" rock, between Bullock
Harbour and Sandycove. I spent more time helping them untangle lines and replace
shock leaders and end rigs, than actually fishing. I fished there last week and
took 6 doggies to mackeral strip. This weekend, we gave up on bottom fishing and
spun with Eddy eels to a small pollack apiece. The fishing has started,
eventually.
Neil Frankish
30 December 2002
Colliemore Harbour. Fished six hours before
high water. Bait was Lug, mussel, sandeel. Trace was small snood,1.5m up
with heavy grip. Caught 5 good withing, several tiny codling. Lost 2 heavy
fish to the anchour bouy ropes!
John
Grace
Dublin
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Dunlaire
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Dunlaoghaire
1
January 2003
Fished inside the pier from 6-9 high tide being about 8, used frozen mackeral
and lost count of the amount of whiting we caught 1 or 2 of decent size but most
around a half pound.they were literally only 10 yards out!
Keith
31
May 2003 Time:Day
Fished
te pear useing mackerel for a few hours nothing at all happening!
John
T
14
January 2003
Fished
top of west pier last 3 hours of flood tide. Strong south / south-westerly
blowing. fished two hook patonoster rig. bait - macherel strip.
Plenty
of action - all small whiting with one or two above the size limitlimit
Tom
Doyle
Greystones
3
December 2003
Fished 3 hours before high and 1 after. Lots of Cod, whiting and Pollack (I
think). All very small though. All caught on Rag and Rag tipped with squid.
Also used Lug and sandeel with no takers.
Paul
9
November 2003
Fished greystones south beach from 4 pm to 10 pm high tide being 11pm. No fish
for the first 3 hours, spent time picking weed off line. When wind died down had
an enjoyable evening fishing if very slow. Caught 7 fish in all. 5 whiting all
between 1/3-1/2lb, one 1/2 codling and similar size rockling. Bait used was
mussel, sand eels and mackerel, most of the whiting taking the sandeels.There
was a strong current running from south to north along the beach from around 4-7
but my 6oz grip lead was hoding bottom. The wind died down and I was able to
change to a normal 5 oz non grip lead which enabled me to get some bite
detection. All the fish were caught on a standard 3 hook flapper with snood
lenghts of about 16" most of them on the bottom snood. I had been using a
bomber rig with the top snood about 3 foot, bottom snood about 1 foot but caught
nothing with this.
Ed Burke
19
October 2003
Luke
Scully and I headed to greystones where we fished from 3-7 high water being at
6. We fished the pier for the first hour using rag and mackerel. The sea was
very rough with waves crashing over the pier wall. We caught nothing and did not
see anybody else land any fish there bing about 10 rods on the pier. We fished
the south beach which should have been promising as night was falling. We caught
nothing as bite detection was impossible and every cast resulted in the rig
getting smothered in weeds. I will not fish greystones again during stormy
easterlies. If this is any help please submit reports.
Ed Burke
31
May 2003
Fished
9pm - 1:30am. Fished from the rocks - very calm mild night. Lots of
doggies and a couple of small flats. Most productive was squid.
Paul
19
April 2003 Time: Day
Following my last miserable blank on Greystones south beach, I fished off the
rocks between the harbour and the south beach. About an hour before high tide
and 2.5 hours of the ebb - pleasant sunny Good Friday afternoon. Fresh lug,
frozen sandeel and squid for bait. Again, not a single bite. Where are the fish?
Please, someone tell me where the fish are!
To add to my woes, my 525 mag kept bouncing off the rocks - there was a hell of
a current going southwards - if the grip weight didn't hold it would pull the
tripod over.
Neil Frankish
15
March 2003
Yourselves
but of course we had to forget something, the shelter!Got a couple of bites
straight away but got snagged on the shelf.Lost a bit of tackle but then came
another bite, which turned out to be a crab!That was the highlight of the night.
There was one other angler on the beach near us and he caught a very small
codling(6 inches) before giving up and giving us his bait.He told my son the
water was too cold and the fish were all out in the deeper water where it was a
bit warmer, sounds good so we used that as our excuse for not catching
anything(again!!)when we got home.I think we need professional help(just with
the fishing!!!!).Frabrown
Dave
O Reilly
Frabrown
8 February 2003 Time: Day
Fished
the beach with squid and mussel. not much happining a few small flatties.
John
T
9 February 2003 Time: Day
Fished North beach from 2 til 7 with high tide at 5.
Just one bite after dark. The bro got snagged a fair bit - we might have been
better off nearer the harbour. Must have been 20 others fishing when we were
leaving - Anybody have any luck here recently?
Daithi
1 February 2003
Fished Greystones North Beach on Sat
1st.Arrived at 3.30 pm and set up.Fished till about 10pm on an incoming
tide.Caught 1 small whiting and another fish which thanks to this website I
have now identified as a Sea scorpion.I had thought it was a weever fish .Hope
the lads that arrived before we left had more luck.They looked like they meant
business.
Frabrown
28 December 2002
Fished greystones harbour with luke and
Ed from about 3pm - 10 pm with high tide 6.20. The fishing was excellent
with over 50 fish between us, mainly (suicide)whiting aswell as some
large dogfish. The fish were caught on rag, mussell, sandeel, squid and
razorfish, basically anything. Perfect time & place for novices to
get into the sport, enjoy the whiting they'll be gone in a few weeks.
Alby
15 December 2002
Fished 3 hours before high tide on a big surf. Caught a
few 2lb Cod and some small whiting. Most fish were caught 2 hours before full
high. Bait was Lug tipped with squid.
Paul
6
December 2002 Time:Day
Fished
North Beach from 10:30am to 2:30pm. Weather was cool and sea was very calm.
Totally blanked - not even a bite. Used Lug, Rag, Mussel and Squid.
Paul
Howth
9
January 2004 Time: Day
I don't know why I punish myself by fishing here during the day! Managed to
catch a single whiting for 3 hours fishing. I know that if I had fished here
that night i would have caught plenty of fish!
Steve O'Hanlon
4 October 2003 Time: Day
Fished Balscadden, Arrived at 12 pm (low water) and fished till about 4. Used
mackeral, rag and mussel, and caught 2 of the smallest flatties I have ever seen
(about the length of my finger!). My advice? Give Balscadden a miss for a few
months!
Steve O'Hanlon
14 December 2002 Time:Day
Fished Balscadden again - sea was a little calmer this
time. Bait used was ragworm, peeler crab and squid. Spent 3 1/2 hours freezing
my ass off, and only fish was a 6 inch whiting on my last cast. Might try the
Bailey Lighthouse next time, as fishing into much deeper water. Will need to
wait for the weather to calm down first though.
Steve
8 December 2002 Time: Day
Fished the rocks at Balscadden from 12.30pm-5.00pm, with
high tide at about 2.00pm. Sea was huge, 20 feet waves were pounding the rocks.
Lost count of the amount of pin whiting caught, approx 30 I guess, with only 2
sizeable fish. However managed to catch my first codling of the year, weighed
about 2lbs, and also lost another trying to drag it up the cliff. Frozen peeler
crab and rag cocktails took the cod.
Steve
O' Hanlon
Irelands
Eye
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Kilcoole
5 February 2004 Time: Day
Fished this venue from 10am to 2pm ,high tide at 11am,s.w blowing, temp. about
12degrees plenty of colour in water,only two undersize whiting to show for the
effort,used mackerel,squid,and sandeels,fished a second rod ,''scratching''
just a couple of yards out, still it beats painting the house!.
Rory Mc Dowell
18 January 2003
Decided to give the beach a lash, arrived at 9.30pm,
high tide being 11.15. Fished until about 1.30 am, using 5 different baits,
and only had 5 small whiting between two of us. Some others on the beach
faired the same, with the addition of some small rockling. Will not be
returning in a hurry!
Steve
Killiney
2 November 2003 Time: Day
Up early Sunday morning, fishing 2 rods (me and the young lad),Rag and
mussel,Beautiful morning, but no bites, tide was going out. Packed up at 10:20
with not even a doggie, Is anybody catching out there????
Tresher
19 June 2003
On the beach last Friday evening on the ebb with a
beachcaster and spinning rod, using mackeral, squid and rag with the former and
rubber eels on the latter. Three doggies and a tiny whiting (which a had a huge
chunk bitten out of it by the time I'd got it in) and three small pollack and my
first mackeral of the season from the Eddy eel. It was a lovely evening also.
Neil Frankish
Killoughter
4
May 2003 Time: Day
Fished from 3pm to 8pm Saturday 3/4/03, gale force winds and driving rain from
the South made this an outing for the dedicated. We had to navigate the lane
first which had become what looked like a test circuit for off road vehicles.
We pegged in front of and to the right of the gate and it took what seemed
like ages to get everything set up (trying to keep the brollies weighed down
took the longest). The tide had just turned and our competition was fished
over a falling tide. The first fish to be caught was a Lesser Spotted Dogfish
(LSD) at 3.45pm using a one hook clipped down rig, bait was sandeel tipped
with mackeral. It continued slow for the rest of the day with a few LSD,
Dab's, Whiting and Flounders caught. The rain never stopped all day and even
with raingear everyone was soaked right through.
17 fish were caught on the day:-
7 - LSD, 4 Flounders, 3 Dab's, 3 Whiting.
Bait on the day:
Sandeel, Fresh Peeler Crab, Mackeral, Ragworm,
Lugworm.
No one bait was deemed better than the other as each bait caught something and
with so few fish caught it was impossible to judge an overall winner.
Damien Warren
Laytown
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Morris
Castle
6 December 2003 Time: Day
Fishing
on a slack tide, nasty on shore breeze bringing in rollers, started slow
but persevered and got our rewards as the tide flooded 22 flounder biggest
2 lb and nice brill ( my fisrst one from the shore) and 3 undersized bass.
all in all we'll be back very soon.
Chris c.n. s.a.c.
The
Muglins
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Roslare
4 March 2003 Time: Day
Fished Roslare with charlie and Ed Burke on saturday using rag, mussle, squid
and sandeel with not even a bite. most exciting thing to happen all day was
trying to find a camping Gaz to make some sausages! We later stopped off in
Court town to fish the going tide with a few slight nibbles. The fish are
obviously still out at sea spawning. I think it should start to pick up
shortly.
Luke
Scully
2
March 2003
Fished
from low to high tide with Chris and Luke. Choose Roslare strand after getting
reports of bass. Bait used mussels, squid, rag. Not a bite between the 3 of us
and no fish.
Ed
Burke
Sandycove
14
June 2003 Time: Day
Fished rocks at back of Bullock Harbour for the last three hours of the flood
tide.(high Tide approx 11.30a.m.) plenty if action with small pollock (to 1lb)
and wrasse to 1
.5lb) float fishing with ragworm as bait.
A few larger pollock (3/4lb to 2lb) caught spinning - however be prepard
to loose some lures as the area is quite snaggy
Tom Doyle
5
May 2003 Time: Day
Fished for 3.5 hr from the rocks between Forty foot and Bullock Harbour over
high tide using fresh lug, frozen squid and frozen sandeel. Not a single bite.
Again. That's four blanks in a row. Also, to keep boredom away, tried spinning
with sandeels and eddyeels. Nothing. Considering going back to golf.
Neil
Frankish
Sutton
8 August 2003 Time: Day
Fished Red Rock at the Martello Tower between 6-9. Despite reports of bass
being caught, I didn't have so much as a nibble. Bait was large sandeels
and king rag. Baits were being stripped by crabs almost immediately after
casting. Might give this place a shot at low tide with some plugs, Pat in
Henry's tackle seems to think this is the way to fish here.
Had fished further up the coast here last week (about half way to the
Bailly Lighthouse) but all I got were 3 large dogs. Better than nothing I
suppose.
Steve O'Hanlon
Poolbeg
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Wexford
8
December 2002
Fished
Rostoonstown at night 9pm high tide. Bait was Lugg tipped with squid. Caught 2
BASS, 1 dog and 1 small whiting. There was a bit of an easterly wind and a good
surf.
Paul
Wicklow
8 August 2003 Time: Day
Picked an evening high tide to try the Wicklow beaches for bass. After an hour
of plugging, just as I was about to move elsewhere, I got a bite, which
encouraged me to stay. A couple of local lads were also there spinning. Again, I
was about to leave when I got a very aggressive bite on the plug and pulled in a
2.5 lber. The other two guys changed to plugs after seeing my success, but no
more takes for anybody, until I was about to go home, when I thought I would
change to a new plug (Yo-Zuri Arc Minnow) just to see how it swam. Lo and
behold, another bite, again very agressive with the fish breaking surface, and
despite being again about 2.5lb, it put up a good rod-bending fight. So two
fish, above min size, to the chagrin of the locals who got nothing. This makes a
welcome change from my usual complaints.
Neil Frankish
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