Fluke, the lucky flounder

[Kieran Hanrahan]

True story, several witnesses (some probably still laughing)...

 

Myself and the brother were fishing Keem Bay in Achill on Sunday and doing quite well. In fact he beat me 11:5 over the tide.

 

I had a crack off on braid with the short rod (first of the year). An hour later, the same rod picks up a coalfish (two a penny at the moment) and in he comes, complete with braid around the hook. Having dropped him back, I start to hand haul the braid in, thinking "you lucky so-and-so, you're getting your rig back" only to find a flounder attached to the top hook (complete with uneaten ragworm!) on the end of the trace. Perfectly well alive. I unhooked the flounder and dropped him back none the worse for wear only to realise that the weight is not mine, (mine was a grip lead)... so the braid and rig is not mine.

 

It was someone else's recent crack off... how about that for one flukey flounder!

 

Pictures on the gallery (page 5)

[blanked again]

pssssst, Kieran, try to tone down your reports on catch sizes, otherwise Ireland will be swamped. A lot of people don't really know how good Ireland is for fishing, so let's not tell the whole world!!

 

Tim

[Vagabond]

Years ago I had a crack-off at Dungeness.

 

Chevin was fishing next to me and as he retrieved his gear found it was tangled with my recently lost rig, which had a couple of four-pound codling attached. He removed them, cracked them on the head and said "Two-nil to me then"

 

"But they were caught on my rig" I protested

 

"No" said Chevin "your rig was lost"

[gonefishing]

my mate does this all the time, we lose the rig, he hauls it in with either a fish on his rig or or on the one we lost on the cast...

 

i swear he doesnt need a rod, he could just stand near the water and the fish would throw themselves at him.