People: JP,Keith, Al, JD, Ruairi, Lumpy, Dominator, Dan, Garrett, Gordy, Jay
Duration: 4pm-9pm
Tide: Low water was about 5:30 pm
Weather: Sunny, calm enough
Bait: Lud, wraps,maddies, sand eel, mack etc
Rigs: Flappers and clip downs
Results:….
124 fish, Flounder, Whiting, Rockling, Dab, LSD, Bass
Place Peg Name Fish Total Ma Points 1 3 JP Molloy 17 344 30 2 5 Keith Murphy 15 303 29 3 11 Al McGrane 14 290 28 4 10 John Diamond 12 250 27 5 4 Ruari Coleman 12 227 26 6 1 Neil Burrell 12 223 25 7 7 Donal Domeney 10 181 24 8 8 Dan Prunty 10 175 23 9 6 Garrett Flynn 8 122 22 10 9 Gordy Hardman 8 120 21 11 2 Jay Fowler 6 77 20
Largest Round
22cm Rockling – Jp, Keith,JAY: Bass – John D
Largest Flat
29cm Flounder – John D
Report
Well I woke up in Dublin to a lovely sunny day. There were just two problems with that:
1. I had meant to drive down to Wexford previous night
2. Bright, calm , end of February. Some fishing in daylight..YEAH!
I loaded up the taximobile (octavia) and 100 minutes or so later I was at Joe Carley’s house. Bait as ordered, A1, and then over to the folks. The dinner I was meant to have the previous night was popped in the microwave, lunch sorted, and I was good to go.
Back on the N11.
I arrived at Dodd’s rocks as a few lads were unloading their gear from their cars. They were having a small comp between themselves and were happy to stick to the north side of the beach, with us to the right of the entrance. I walked down to the beach to check it out finding dominator and Keith were already doing so. Donal sorted out the pegging (left to right) and Keith and I went back to the car park to sort out the check-in.
Preliminaries sorted, 11 of us were just about ready to go on the beach at 4pm. First cast for me was a flounder rig to about 40 metres or so. 20 minutes later I retrieved to find my bait untouched
. Al had a double followed by a counting whiting. Second and third casts, still nothing for me. I went for a wee flounder walk, bumping into Joe Byrne on his own wee walk. Good to see him about, and some welcome advice for the conditions too.
When I got back to my rod I found the line had run up to the left! What the feck! 2 minutes later and a little Bass was in the bucket. An angry little Bass. Swimming around. With Joe looking after it. “Would you look at that. A Bass”. Another flapper out, fish measured, and a raincheck.
At ths stage Al had four fish, Jp had and Lumpy had similar and there were 2s and 3s spotted across the beach.
I picked up a flounder, then flounders and whiting. When it got dark I tried for a dog, getting a 29 cm flounder on the top hook (wrap and mack). Things went quiet for me, but after a while I picked up some under-size whiting. I decided to try for a LSD, picking one up on Maddi^H^H^H^ sand eel, with an undersize whiting on the top snood. My last cast was a disaster, I left the line slack and it broke pulling it through the gravel.
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Anyway it was good to see new members, well done to JP on winning the first competition of the year and thanks to everybody who turned up.
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