North Dublin 21.09.2024

I headed out to a different North Dublin estuary from the night before, about 2 hours before low tide and this time I was fishing one of my favourite lures in a new colour I hadn't tried yet, sandeel, couldn't be more perfect.. As I walked out the sandbar towards the mouth I was casting into the current and letting the lure float down with little twitches here and there, which wasn't really working until I got to a part of the estuary where water was running off the beach into the channel, casting into the fast current which was murky from all off the movement, I was into a fish almost straight away. It was another tiny schoolie only slightly bigger than the lure and around the same size as the one the night before. But it told me one thing, the fish were there, so after throwing him back I kept doing the same, casting upstream into the strong current, letting it float down and twitching the rod tip ever few seconds, literally 2 casts later I was into a better fish, this one was about 30cm, after unhooking him and throwing back I decided to move on up towards the surf at the mouth, and again, literally 2 casts in and I was into a decent fish, finally getting a proper fight, I pulled out a lump of a fish, must of been about 6lbs, definitely my biggest fish on lure at 54cm. This one was for the table so after dispatching, I checked the contents of his stomach and it was stuffed full of small crabs and sandeels 😂