waterford estuary trip 28th april

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People:myself

Duration:7hours

Tide:ebb to flood

Weather:nice, calm am, niggling sea breeze pm

Bait:crab rag

Rigs:spreader, and flowing trace

Results:25 flounder 18 silver eels 1 small codling

Report:

Well, went on a solo run to spend some time hunting new marks, and boy did i hit a good one
Went to a familiar Flonder mark first , and it really was full of them, not big, but plenty of them, doubles were common, after 30 mins and 25 fish, decided to move to a patch of rough to see if i could winkle out a rockling, had a bite immediately and up came a double silver eel, normally a tough cookie to get.
that was'nt all 18 eels were boated in less than 35 mins, again it must have been full of them, but nothing else except a small codling.
Delighted with a good bit of action, i moved again to try a few more spots, all blanks, i moved back out to see towards were i launced in tramore.
Each spot was a blank, not even i nibble, it was very poor indeed, a few other boats were bassing around saleens, but did'nt see if they had caught anything.
A great start to the day, and it made the long steam worthwhile, but its very worrying that there was nothing at dunmore, brownstown head, and tramore bay, though of course there was plenty of bouys marking nets and pots!
Hopefully it will improve
Pics on species hunt
regards
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[dezzer]

great report martyn,you are certainly clocking up the species now,is there any update in the boat species section,dezzer.........

[Stan]

Was down in Ardmore last week and some of the local fishermen told me that they are no longer allowed use nets. So the buoys that you saw were probably pots.

The banning of inshore fishermen having nets does not seem to have been widely broadcast. It will no doubt have a plus side and anglers should see a big increase in the fish population. Hopefully, anglers will now practice more C&R.