puffin, courtown, 23/5

[thelegend]

People:me my da, darren, frank , freddy ,mark

Duration:9 til 4

Tide:full at 10 i think

Weather:real mixed bag

Bait:herring, mack, squid

Rigs:1 hook steel traces,

Results:dogs, tope, thornback ray

Report:been waitin for this day for ages was prayin for decent weather and got a mixed day bit of everything, very rough headin out was feelin ill anyway from somethin i ate the night before, big swell didnt help and was soon chuckin up the contents of my stomach and my phone from my top pocket doh fishin was slow tried various marks with only a few dogs to show, went to a good mark for tope we hoped , i was of the mark first with a 6lb tope my first followed by two thornies for frank and freddy 6 lbs and 3.5 lbs more dogs followed and a beaut of a thornie at 17lbs for darren followed up with a 16lb tope and a 7lb tope jammy git all enjoyed the day and could get to like boat fishin when its calm left my camera at a communion party today will add some pics later durin the week,

[gfkelly1969]

great fishing well done,the 17lbs thornie must have been hard to pull in

[JOHN1]

great stuff.

cant wait for the pic of the 17lbder nice fish.

were you north or south of courtown .

[thelegend]

People:me my da, darren, frank , freddy ,mark

Duration:9 til 4

Tide:full at 10 i think

Weather:real mixed bag

Bait:herring, mack, squid

Rigs:1 hook steel traces,

Results:dogs, tope, thornback ray

Report:been waitin for this day for ages was prayin for decent weather and got a mixed day bit of everything, very rough headin out was feelin ill anyway from somethin i ate the night before, big swell didnt help and was soon chuckin up the contents of my stomach and my phone from my top pocket doh fishin was slow tried various marks with only a few dogs to show, went to a good mark for tope we hoped , i was of the mark first with a 6lb tope my first followed by two thornies for frank and freddy 6 lbs and 3.5 lbs more dogs followed and a beaut of a thornie at 17lbs for darren followed up with a 16lb tope and a 7lb tope jammy git all enjoyed the day and could get to like boat fishin when its calm left my camera at a communion party today will add some pics later durin the week,

some pics at last

[thelegend]

great stuff.

cant wait for the pic of the 17lbder nice fish.

were you north or south of courtown .

north of courtown about a mile or so, the thornie was hooked in the lip but managed to wrap her tail around the line i thought he snagged the anchor hell of a job reelin her in

[bigstyle]

Nice fishing.

I think the second picture is a Starry smooth-hound and not a Tope. Nice fish though.

[boycie89]

sorry to tell you mate buy your first tope is a starry smoothound !!

[JOHN1]

nice pictures there legend,
perfect looking sea conditions what are you talking about you could get to like boat fishing when its calm .
if it was as calm as that every time i was out there i would be very happy.

[dbrock]

nice fishing well done lads

[croppyboy]

well done lads

[petewex]

well jim when are you back on the shore
looks like ya had good day on water good to see the ray about

[thelegend]

sorry to tell you mate buy your first tope is a starry smoothound !!

fcuk it is a starry ah well thats a first starry for me then, tope next time

[thelegend]

nice pictures there legend,
perfect looking sea conditions what are you talking about you could get to like boat fishing when its calm .
if it was as calm as that every time i was out there i would be very happy.

that was the last two hours, was sixfoot waves for four hours before that,mr green i was

[thelegend]

well jim when are you back on the shore
looks like ya had good day on water good to see the ray about

had a crackin day pete great to get a rod in me hands again eh a fishin rod i mean see ya back on the shore soon