clifden bay co galway 29 august 2009

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gfkelly1969
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clifden bay co galway 29 august 2009

#1 Post by gfkelly1969 »

People:myself and a Dublin guy from the site

Duration:17:00 to 22:00

Tide:high 13:15 3.6m low 19:46 2.1m

Weather:not bad

Bait:sandeel sprats,lures and feathers

Rigs:various

Results:Dublin guy 4 mackerel and a lovely 4lb pollack me 1 conger 1 mackerel




Report:I was heading to a mark and stopped to have a chat and the lad said to set up beside him,fishing was quite at first then landed my first ever conger eel,he was small,less then 1 lb but it made my day :D later landed 1 mackerel and 2 pollack one of them was the smallest pollack this year
he had better luck with the pollack he landed a lovely 4 lb pollack gave a great fight
thank you for all the information,had a look at what you told me,great tip :wink:
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Re: clifden bay co galway 29 august 2009

#2 Post by saltydog »

Well done on your first Conger Gerry :)
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: clifden bay co galway 29 august 2009

#3 Post by The Austrian »

always nice to catch the first of a new species, no matter what size, well done 8)
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Re: clifden bay co galway 29 august 2009

#4 Post by FisherKing »

Well done on the Conger always great to get a new species for the list!
Cheers Brian
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Re: clifden bay co galway 29 august 2009

#5 Post by zeke »

congratz to the new one well done
tight lines,
zeke

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Re: clifden bay co galway 29 august 2009

#6 Post by eyesreilly »

Congrats on the conger, hope my first is a small one as well :roll: :roll: Wouldnt know what to do if i landed a big one.
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