People:myself and midget
Duration:6hours(friday)
4 hours(monday)
Tide:3 hours dropping, 3 rising(friday)
Weather:flat calm
Bait:herring and mackeral
Rigs:pullys, flappers and running ledgers
Results:12th_ myself-conger, coalies, pollack, huss
Alex- conger coalies, pollack and scad
16th- myself- 12 mackeral, 15 pollack, 2 conger, 1 coalfish, 1 doggie, 2 codling.
Alex- 1 conger, 1 mullet, 1 sea scorpion(long spined), pollack and coalies
Report: Monday the 12th was a nice calm evening, after seeing a few conger around the area i said i would give it a go, we got a few nice bites early on and alex got the first conger(10lbs) after 10 minutes. we were getting plenty of small fish to keep us busy. then i got a small huss on the conger rod then followed by a small conger about 7 lbs. overall a nice little session.
Friday 16th: we were looking forward to friday since the monday session so i went down an hour earlier to get some mackeral and ended up getting plenty of pollack with them! but we had fresh bait for the session with loads of herring for backup. Once it got dark the fish started to feed. i was first into a conger, which was 7lbs as i was weighing it alexs ratchet started singing, he also got a conger of 5.5lbs it was unusual to get both at the same time! we put the congers back and started to get a few coalies and pollack on the small rods to keep us busy. Alex managed to spot and catch a nice mullet of 5lbs,then the ratchet went and i got another conger of 9lbs. they are great fish to catch on beachcasters. so much more exciting then using boat rods! we continued to get a few more small fish then the tide dropped so low it seemed to die down. untill i got a codling on the beachcaster. small about 25cms max. was pleased with that so blasted another bait out to the same place and managed to get another one a few minutes later! was very happy with that. it seemed to slow down after that only the occasional small fish. A really enjoyable evening, hadnt been out in ages before thatnearly a year but im addicted again! haha i have some poor pictures on my phone il try put up later!
12th and 16th/october/09 salthill
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Re: 12th and 16th/october/09 salthill
Nice fishing lads, plenty to keep you busy 
You say you got a scad, but didnt mention it in your report, forgive my ignorance, but would scad be caught from the shore quite regularly? Dont ever remember seeing it on a shore report before
You say you got a scad, but didnt mention it in your report, forgive my ignorance, but would scad be caught from the shore quite regularly? Dont ever remember seeing it on a shore report before
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Re: 12th and 16th/october/09 salthill
well done lads lovely selection of fish
lifetime species fishing and rock pool
1 dogfish,2 whiting,3 flounder,4 two spot goby,5 mackerel,6 pollack,7 common blenny,8 European eel,9 butterfish,10 Deep-snouted pipefish,11 rock goby,12 poor cod,13 corkwing wrasse,14 coalfish,15 turbot,16 tompot blenny,17 dab,18 dragonet,19 shorerockling,20 thornback ray,21 three bearded rockling,22 sandeel,23 grey gurnard,24 sea scorpion,25 scad,26 plaice,27 ballen wrasse,28 bullhuss,29 conger eel,30 blue shark,31 blonde ray,32 cod,33 pouting,34 topknot,35 Fifteen-spine Stickleback,36 mullet,37 Sand Goby,38 Montagu's Blenny,39 Three-spined Stickleback,40 goldshinny wrasse,41 painted goby,42 five bearded rockling,43 Sand-Smelt,44 Small-headed Clingfish ,45 sole
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1 dogfish,2 whiting,3 flounder,4 two spot goby,5 mackerel,6 pollack,7 common blenny,8 European eel,9 butterfish,10 Deep-snouted pipefish,11 rock goby,12 poor cod,13 corkwing wrasse,14 coalfish,15 turbot,16 tompot blenny,17 dab,18 dragonet,19 shorerockling,20 thornback ray,21 three bearded rockling,22 sandeel,23 grey gurnard,24 sea scorpion,25 scad,26 plaice,27 ballen wrasse,28 bullhuss,29 conger eel,30 blue shark,31 blonde ray,32 cod,33 pouting,34 topknot,35 Fifteen-spine Stickleback,36 mullet,37 Sand Goby,38 Montagu's Blenny,39 Three-spined Stickleback,40 goldshinny wrasse,41 painted goby,42 five bearded rockling,43 Sand-Smelt,44 Small-headed Clingfish ,45 sole
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Re: 12th and 16th/october/09 salthill
you get scad often enough when the mackeral are about on feathers
not that strange really
chris where did you crawl out from under!!!
great session to get back to it
what did midget get the mullet on a mac strip?
not that strange really
chris where did you crawl out from under!!!
great session to get back to it
what did midget get the mullet on a mac strip?
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Nice fishing lads, good to see some fish about Salthill. Whereabouts were you fishing?
Chris, great to see you back out - keep it up! Well done in the rugby interpros by the way, congrats!
Alex, I still have your tripod - give me a shout so I can drop it back to you...
Chris, great to see you back out - keep it up! Well done in the rugby interpros by the way, congrats!
Alex, I still have your tripod - give me a shout so I can drop it back to you...
Its called fishing, not catching. If it was called catching it wouldn't be fishing!
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Re: 12th and 16th/october/09 salthill
sorry i just forgot to put it in! alex got it on a strip of mackeral, used to get a lot of them a few years ago, havent got one in a while but there are a few around! as corbyeire said ya can get em often enough!shamoo0804 wrote:Nice fishing lads, plenty to keep you busy
You say you got a scad, but didnt mention it in your report, forgive my ignorance, but would scad be caught from the shore quite regularly? Dont ever remember seeing it on a shore report before
ya im delighted to be back finally have time again since the rugby interpros are over! Thanks! they were good alright! great to win!Bradan wrote:Nice fishing lads, good to see some fish about Salthill. Whereabouts were you fishing?
Chris, great to see you back out - keep it up! Well done in the rugby interpros by the way, congrats!
Alex, I still have your tripod - give me a shout so I can drop it back to you...
how ya corbyeire! ya he got it on a mack strip! nice fish!corbyeire wrote:you get scad often enough when the mackeral are about on feathers
not that strange really
chris where did you crawl out from under!!!
great session to get back to it
what did midget get the mullet on a mac strip?
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