Benwee Head, Killala, Mayo 14.8.2009

[kieran]

People: Myself and Gerry

Duration: 2 hours

Tide: around hw, 3 pm

Weather: stunning - who would have believed it!

Bait: none, lures

Rigs: feathers, metals and a few plugs at the end for sea trout

Results: lots of small macks, 1 pollack, 1 wrasse


Report: This was a spur of the moment job, was working in Ballina and finished early - bumped into Gerry and we took his car and rods out to a deep water rock mark. You drive ot the end of Benwee Head, park in the rough car park and walk about 400 metres left along the cliffs to the sheep herders hut and work your way down to the big rock slabs from there. Very deep at high water, must be 7-10 metres straight down.

Looked to feather for mackerel in what was fairly rough conditions and picked up stragglers, one at a time and rather small. Shook most of them off and kept a few of the better fish for tea. Moved back to the sandstone slabs and changed to lures. Could not use poppers as the waves were too rough - nothing would have spotted them so used small norwegian sprats for distance and picked up more macks. Though we might get a sea trout but no good. Gerry took a small pollack around 1 kilo on a kilty and I got another wrasse - 1.5 kilos on a fat day - on a small German sprat lure. I seem to be making a habit of this...

Nice to get out, nothing special, reckon bait fishing would have been very good for wrasse and pollack, conditions were ideal with the big swell...