search for Cod....

Went out for a look for a few Cod tonight.. i had heard of a few good catches last week.
So i set up my shimmy boat rod with some black feathers and a 40z lead and off i went.
Problem straight away was i kept hitting macks on the drop...and after a while i decided the reef was full of em, so a change was made and off i went to a more remote spot.
Again more macks and a tiny pollack, and then a nice Pollack.
A full string of three macks wound the feather trace up in a ball, so i switched to a jig head and slug...but no takes on that...then i put on a joey type deep diving lure in the hope a Bass would be around...but another small pollack was the only take.
So... no Cod.
A really nice evening on the water though!!

Baltic flies......

They arived today.... the "replot stinger"
Click on the Baltic flies link over in the links section to see more...


The Iron Claw Authanic wire is on the way too.....

waiting game....

I got there to find the bait fish shoaling and the terns gorging themselves... the feed shallow went out again and again and one mack was all i had... later i free lined some bait for a couple of hours and only one pull on the line, but the bite didn't develop...
EDIT.... the Bait i used was a full squid on a Kamasan B940 4/0 hook... freelined with the flooding current down the channel... it should settle on the side of the Channel and in the dark has accounted for many a Bass in Autumn. Razor Clam is Deadly too!

Friday 30th sept. The day of the Rain.....

It rained today....no ... i mean it RAINED today.... but i went anyway ...after work...
Got to Roches point...the mouth of Cork Harbour, and looked out.
"YA... i can do that...its only swell .. no breaking waves..."
I went.
I could not fish.
I trolled some flies....it got exciting paddling in the swell...
I took some video footage on my new phone with HD video....
I got home and only had 3 seconds of video....
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
My dare devil kayak fishing deed is lost........

Gutted.......................

no comment....

Baltic flies....

I have ordered a couple of flies to try for the pike later on again.
A fantastic site,
check it out!
Click on the title!

Ladies mini marathon...

Yes.. the girls were out in force today for the marathon.....more money for Down syndrome Ireland... a great cause.....well done girls!

Chasing Mr. P.

I had a day off today, and even though the forecast was for windy southerlies, i made a plan to go inland.
A beautiful spot, although i wont say where, it was calm and flat early in the morning.
I had left the house at 5.15am once the flask was made and the yak loaded.
Well the plan was to fish with fly mostly, but as the morning went on the wind increased and made it very hard, so later i went to the lure.
But i did manage a Jack on a weird orange/lure flash combo.....
A few pic's of the day.......
There was a little blood on the Jack, but i checked and the hook had missed the gill's, also the hooks used are Barb less.
He swam off very strongly...