Clare Dragoon, Carrigaholt 30-31 May 09

[jw]

People: jw plus 5 lads from cabra sea fishing club

Duration: 2 days

Tide: comes and goes

Weather: sub tropical

Bait: mackerel, launce and rags

Rigs: all of them

Results: pollack, ballans, cuckoo, ling, dogs, whiting, pouting, coalie, poor cod, haddock, thornbacks

Report: According to the old people if the basking sharks are close to
loop head in april then we will have a sunny june and july, which seems to be true.

The water temp is up to 14 degrees and there are plenty of whitefish about. We tried tope fishing
on the beal bar for an hour either side of low water and did not get a single tope run

[jw]

ballan

[Tanglerat]

Nice haddock!

[jw]

thanks, i was also interested to hear that a tope tagged on the clare dragoon last year was
recaptured off portugal and a blue shark off the cape verde islands. Remarkable journeys
and a reminder the stock of fish in the atlantic ocean is finite

[JOHN1]

yes nice haddock

i wouldnt mind seeing a few of that size around here.

[jd]

I presume you got the Thornback on the Beal Bar?

[nicefish]

Lovely days fishing, I love the first photo great picture

[gfkelly1969]

nice fishing.well done on the haddock.any idea of the weight

[jw]

thanks lads

i did not weight the haddock i caught, but there are some fine big ones showing
up off loop head, picture of one over five pounds on Luke's site
http://www.shannon-fishery-board.ie/gui ... n_2009.htm

we caught plenty of thornbacks fishing at anchor north of loop head
the best one was eight pounds

[marky]

well done, great photo's there

[MAC]

Nice day out lads. Well done.

Kev

[Donogh]

Lovely fish, Johnny.