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Ballycastle Mayo
Ballycastle Mayo (Pier.) 17/4/03 friend of mine fished there for 1 hour mackerel bait caught 4 turbet smallest 1.5lbs
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Hi DrSeaFish, dingbat
Standard flattie rigs but slightly bigger hooks (2/0 is good unless you want lots of small bites) and the key is to use flesh not worms as bait. You are invariably fishing onto sand/mud so watch leads will work fine. Mackerel does well and sandeels will work extremely well in a few weeks once the start to shoal. Never knew the pier fished that well... Dingbst are you sure the smallest was 1.5 lbs, and not the biggest? That is my experience in north Mayo.... buckets of small immature fish everywhere...
Standard flattie rigs but slightly bigger hooks (2/0 is good unless you want lots of small bites) and the key is to use flesh not worms as bait. You are invariably fishing onto sand/mud so watch leads will work fine. Mackerel does well and sandeels will work extremely well in a few weeks once the start to shoal. Never knew the pier fished that well... Dingbst are you sure the smallest was 1.5 lbs, and not the biggest? That is my experience in north Mayo.... buckets of small immature fish everywhere...
Kieran Hanrahan
Time spent fishing is never time wasted...
2015 targets - a triggerfish, a specimen bass, a three bearded rockling to complete the set and something big and toothy from certain north Mayo deep water marks
Time spent fishing is never time wasted...
2015 targets - a triggerfish, a specimen bass, a three bearded rockling to complete the set and something big and toothy from certain north Mayo deep water marks