Fav Mark, Co. Limerick, 25-Aug-2013

People: Me as I've no one to fish with anymore

Duration: 10:20 until 15:00

Tide: Spring Ebb

Weather: Mild and cloudy

Bait: refrozen mackerel, Sand eel and Squid

Rigs: Pulley 4/0 & 2/0

Results: 11 dogfish, 2 ray and a Huss

Report:

You know you haven't been fishing in a while when you open the cool box to see dead flies that have gone through the full life cycle from maggot to caster to fly. 

I got here just before the post high water tide run the lasts around an hour before the water runs upstream again. On the second cast I had a dogfish. Which was followed as the tide started to run by a wacking great bite with the fish running off down the ebb flow. I had a stop start fight of a Huss diving into rocks and I was delighted to see a large tail waving out of the shallow water as I brought him gently in as he had his teeth around the penel sand eel squid.

 This was followed by more doggies and this small ray. Earlier in the tide I lost two doggies and rigs on the way in to the rough round. These were recovered later on in the tide as it ebbed and released but not counted in my results.

 I continued to get doggies slowly through the session with no missed bites until lunch time when things went quiet. As every angler knows the best way to get bites is to get out a sandwich. On doing this I couldn't get keep a bait on the hook for doggies but couldn't hook them. I brought the bait closer in, in the hope of avoiding the bit robbing dogs and getting a decent ray but just started hooking up  the dogs again but I did get this double shot.