West Clare 24.09.08

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West Clare 24.09.08

#1 Post by saltydog »

People: mga & myself

Duration: 20:15 - 03.15

Tide: Low to full

Weather: nice clear evening/night

Bait: Rag, Sandeel, Razor

Rigs: 2 hook bomber, and 2 up one down

Results: mga 1 lesser weaver, me 2 sea trout 1 flounder




Report: Got a call from mga to see if i fancied a session, couldn't have been better timed as my other half had borrowed my car and i was sitting at home with some rag in the fridge (many thanks Keith :wink: ) Decided to head over to Clare and try for bass. Arrived at the mark and set up one rod each the tide was just after peaking at low, we cast out and waited. We were getting taps to start with but no hook ups :? then after about two hours mga got a another tap and sure enough this time a fish came in a lesser weaver :roll: . Things were very slow but we lived in hope that the flooding tide would bring with it some fish. After 5hrs fishing i got a tap that looked like typical flattie bite then i got hit again with a more aggresive bite... bass i was thinking :) reeled in to find a sea trout (my first ever) and a flounder :D tide was near full at this stage. At last there was some sign of life out there. We fished on over the high tide very slow going then about an hour after the last fish i got hit, agressive take again more so than the first. Reeled in to find another sea trout coming through the shallows :) we fished on for another hour with no more action to be had. It was very slow going in fairness. We were speaking to a local angler who was walking his dogs and he said he'd seen trawler lights coming in close to shore early in the morning :( He said that the fishing this year in around the whole area had been poor and competitions they've held have produced poor results.
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Shore Species 2011 (31) Ballan Wrasse, Bass, Bullhuss, Coalfish, Cod, Conger, Corkwing Wrasse, Cuckoo Ray, Dab, Dogfish, Five Bearded Rockling, Flounder, Goldsinny Wrasse, Long Spined Sea Scorpion, Mackerel, Plaice, Pollack, Poor Cod, Pouting, Rock Goby, Shanny, Shore Rockling, Short Spined Sea Scorpion, Thornback Ray, Three Bearded Rockling, Tompot Blenny, Tope, Tub Gurnard, Turbot, Undulate Ray, Whiting

Shore Species 2010 (26) - Bass, Black Goby, Bull Huss, Coalfish, Cod, Dab, Dogfish, Five Bearded Rockling, Flounder, Grey Gurnard, Lesser Weaver, Mackerel, Mullet, Plaice, Pollack, Poor cod, Pouting, Rock Goby, Shore Rockling, Silver eel, Starry Smooth Hound, Thornback Ray, Tope, Tub Gurnard, Turbot, Whiting

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Re: West Clare 24.09.08

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Photos taken with my mobile had a problem trying to get them to scale :roll:
Shore Species 2011 (31) Ballan Wrasse, Bass, Bullhuss, Coalfish, Cod, Conger, Corkwing Wrasse, Cuckoo Ray, Dab, Dogfish, Five Bearded Rockling, Flounder, Goldsinny Wrasse, Long Spined Sea Scorpion, Mackerel, Plaice, Pollack, Poor Cod, Pouting, Rock Goby, Shanny, Shore Rockling, Short Spined Sea Scorpion, Thornback Ray, Three Bearded Rockling, Tompot Blenny, Tope, Tub Gurnard, Turbot, Undulate Ray, Whiting

Shore Species 2010 (26) - Bass, Black Goby, Bull Huss, Coalfish, Cod, Dab, Dogfish, Five Bearded Rockling, Flounder, Grey Gurnard, Lesser Weaver, Mackerel, Mullet, Plaice, Pollack, Poor cod, Pouting, Rock Goby, Shore Rockling, Silver eel, Starry Smooth Hound, Thornback Ray, Tope, Tub Gurnard, Turbot, Whiting

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Re: West Clare 24.09.08

#3 Post by fishermannum1 »

well done on your first seatrout, 8) hope its the first of many for you.
fishing sounded right and slow alright, but i'am sure your well happy on getting your trout,
nice one!!
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Re: West Clare 24.09.08

#4 Post by stevecrow74 »

nice one salty.. and another new species for mga too i presume :D i'm actually surprised more weaver haven't been caught there..
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Re: West Clare 24.09.08

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Well done on the first sea trout!!!
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Re: West Clare 24.09.08

#6 Post by keith »

Well done on the Sea trout Salty :)
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Re: West Clare 24.09.08

#7 Post by saltydog »

fishermannum1 wrote: well done on your first seatrout, hope its the first of many for you.
fishing sounded right and slow alright, but i'am sure your well happy on getting your trout,
nice one!!


thanks was nice to get one saved what was turning into a nightmare session :)

stevecrow74 wrote: nice one salty.. and another new species for mga too i presume i'm actually surprised more weaver haven't been caught there..


nice to chalk another species of the list :wink: the photo of mga's weaver doesn't really show it but he was actually quite a big fat one

codswallop wrote: Well done on the first sea trout!!!


thanks codswallop sent me home a lot happier :)

keith wrote: Well done on the Sea trout Salty


thanks keith fair play for the rag much obliged :D I owe you a pint in Clonea :wink:
Shore Species 2011 (31) Ballan Wrasse, Bass, Bullhuss, Coalfish, Cod, Conger, Corkwing Wrasse, Cuckoo Ray, Dab, Dogfish, Five Bearded Rockling, Flounder, Goldsinny Wrasse, Long Spined Sea Scorpion, Mackerel, Plaice, Pollack, Poor Cod, Pouting, Rock Goby, Shanny, Shore Rockling, Short Spined Sea Scorpion, Thornback Ray, Three Bearded Rockling, Tompot Blenny, Tope, Tub Gurnard, Turbot, Undulate Ray, Whiting

Shore Species 2010 (26) - Bass, Black Goby, Bull Huss, Coalfish, Cod, Dab, Dogfish, Five Bearded Rockling, Flounder, Grey Gurnard, Lesser Weaver, Mackerel, Mullet, Plaice, Pollack, Poor cod, Pouting, Rock Goby, Shore Rockling, Silver eel, Starry Smooth Hound, Thornback Ray, Tope, Tub Gurnard, Turbot, Whiting

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Re: West Clare 24.09.08

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Apologies for the delay in posting pic. Managed one pic only, and not a particularly good one at that, before batteries died in the camera :twisted:
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