courtown or Donegal charter?

Wed Jul 31, 2013 9:50 pm

HI guys, im in a bit of quandry as to where to pick to head out on a charter, the guys at Courtown are close and handy to drive to so more mates would be up for that but whats the fishing like lately does anyone know? ive read a few posts of people catching lots of tope but has anyone had other good catches recently while either out on a charter from there or on their own boat??
I know what to expect if i go to Donegal way up the norhtwest and that is appealing to the minority of us so i would appreciate any feedback on boats going out ouf courtown in the past few weeks.
Cheers.

Re: courtown or Donegal charter?

Wed Jul 31, 2013 10:08 pm

Why not give Joe a ring in the shop to see how the fishing has been? Im sure there would be a good chance of tope,hounds and some ray etc.

Re: courtown or Donegal charter?

Wed Jul 31, 2013 10:30 pm

yeah the brother in law will be in the shop tomorrow, I was just hoping to find out a few more insights, the brother in law can be quite bad at passing on information! :/

Re: courtown or Donegal charter?

Wed Jul 31, 2013 10:43 pm

You're in with a good shout of Tope at Courtown, smoothies are a certainty if you have some peeler and a good chance of Ray & Huss too. North Donegal would give you much more variety, good Tope, nice Ray & Flattie fishing, and some really nice wreck & reef fishing, as well as the chance of a Skate or blue & porbeagle sharks. Choice is yours!

Re: courtown or Donegal charter?

Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:01 pm

cheers rob, youve just more or less sold Donegal to a few of the lads i think. just gotta hope they wont be lazy __ and take the drive :P

Re: courtown or Donegal charter?

Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:25 pm

go down to kilmore quay plenty of variety down there plenty of tope ray and huss if thats what your after if not the reefs will produce plenty to keep everyone happy :wink: the only problem with the charters in kilmore is the full day trips are short leave at 9am back in for 4pm :?

Re: courtown or Donegal charter?

Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:54 pm

Check out Michael McVeigh's catch report page http://www.rosguill.com/category/fishing-news/ which will give you a good idea of what's going on up Downings direction. It's one of the best websites I've seen from charter boats in this country. He always puts up really nice pictures.

Re: courtown or Donegal charter?

Thu Aug 08, 2013 2:46 pm

cheers for the help lads, we've decide on Donegal, we will be fishing on the 23rd on the saoire mara! (not sure if thats the boat name) leavign Kincaslagh will lets yas know how we get on in the reports in a couple of weeks :)

Re: courtown or Donegal charter?

Thu Aug 08, 2013 4:23 pm

you wont regret it I've used him before he's a nice fella and the fishing grounds are good - we've been very lucky with teh cod there in the past.

Re: courtown or Donegal charter?

Fri Aug 09, 2013 6:38 pm

Is that with Paul?

Top boat, top bloke.

Re: courtown or Donegal charter?

Fri Aug 09, 2013 9:16 pm

yes Pol McGettigan I think his name good clean modern boat lovely fishing grounds only thing you have to worry about is a big westerly or N westerly

Re: courtown or Donegal charter?

Fri Aug 09, 2013 11:32 pm

Paul McGonagle & the Caitlín Marie. You'll have fun. And Danny Minnie's is just over the road for a decent bite of dinner too.

http://www.saoiremara.com/index.html