I'm new in boat fishing (Cork) & I need advice. Please help!

Hello everyone and thanks a lot for accepting me in this community

I have recently purchased a 12ft inflatable dinghy with an 86lbs trolling motor and I have been after cod for a little while but I just don't seem able to transition succesfully from shore fishing into boat fishing, so I have a couple of questions if anybody can help me out:

1. I usually fish anchoring the boat at the end of the Passage West canal between the Monkstown marina and the dockyard/shipwright to the East (51.84767106129069, -8.330061697200465). Is that a good place for fishing or it's just me that I'm very bad at fishing ?

2. I am very lost with lures and lines. I'm currently fishing with german spratt, metal jigs and spinners but I also tried float fishing with earthworm (I still need to try the pulley and paternoster rigs). Nothing seems to work. Any recommendation?

3. For the local boaters. My trolling motor is not very powerful, it can reach a maximum of 6kph (but with the batteries on it could go on for like 4 hours) and I get really scared to go further down, around buoy number 17. Do you think I'm being too cautious? Apparently it's a good fishing spot for bass.

Thanks a million and good luck to everyone in their fishing trips!

Welcome to the forum.
You will be hard pressed to get a cod in the harbour at this time of year. If there is any cod run it will be later in the autumn.

1: It wouldn't be my first choice for fishing, of course this depends on your target.

2: Where have you tried with lures?

3: The best thing is to experiment. Stay out of the middle of the channels where the tide is strongest.

Have a read off this too: http://www.topfisher.eu/angling-cork-ha ... sta-style/

Thanks a lot for the reply!

I went down there because it's very accessible with boat ramps and so. I don't know any other place around with a similar setting. When it comes to lures, I've tried pretty much everything from spinners, sandeel, soft plastics, feathers etc...