Why did i bring the rod?

Its the Cork Jazz weekend....

Grrrrrreat!

Allen's fly.....

This is the kind of fluff i want to chuck in 2012...
Allen, why did you not give me it sooner?


Nice slim profile and sparce... looks great in the water.. baby pollack or wrasse??
More please Allen....lol!

I flung it about tonight from 5:45 till 8:00 pm... conditions were tough big swell/surf and loads of lifted debris... no fish but i enjoyed myself!

Replot Stinger...

I headed to a lake little known for pike,and spent the morning in the wind and rain throwing the replot stinger from Baltic flies around.
(Theres a link in the link section.)
I hit a jack fairly soon and missed another and a move later saw me hit a better fish of 3 or 4 lb but it came off seconds later!!
(so no new P.B. lol)
I guess i should have struck home harder!
Anyway ...nothing more after that, and Allen arrived and we headed to another lake to fish off the shore with flies and lure but no luck...
But we did spot a hen harrier with made my day!!!





Rod ..9 weight
Line...a mill end inter. sinking
Leader.. 30lb clear mono with an Iron claw wire tip section.
Fly.. Baltic flies replot stinger.

October Sprat Feast.....

More pics to follow......
So i arrived to see a bait ball being attacked by gulls and i thought this could be good!


The tools of the trade...9 weight rod with two reels one has an inter. sinking the other a floating line.. line tray.. box of flies and a net.

Started with the floating line and the fish just came on ... fish after fish after fish.. pollack mostly with a few mack...
Flies that worked...
Chat. bleeding clouser
Chat. clouser
white glitter critter
white seaducer

Black or dark flies got no hits nor did a small sprat -like deciever in blue/black.
And i managed a mack on a chat. Gurgler... while the pollack head butted this into the air!! Brilliant!

Some pics of some of the fish.... i finished up with a black hollow fly with no takes and called it a day around 9pm.

Tarpon...

loved this clip.......

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.....