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south connemara mark

#1 Post by lucky »

people.. myself and conor..


baits.... lug,squid,mack,sandell,

tide... full at 4.20pm

results... thornback ray...

fished this mark that conor know for my first time.. cracking spot,, weather good.. fished it from 1.45 to 8.15pm... first of the mark was conor with a lovely ray,, and then myself with an other ray and so on .. the ray where the best looking ray i have seen for a long time.. fantasic aray of skin patterns on the ray... conor had the camera so i hope he post the pictures later plus add some more to the report.....
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SHORE SPECIES 2012... coalie,

boat species09~~~pollack,cod,haddock,whiting,doggies,bullhuss,tope,john dory,thornebsck,blonde,blue shark,spur dog,wrase,gunnard,pouting,

shore species 2010~~~ dab,flounder,thorneback ray,pollack,plaice,coalies,turbot,wrasse,bull huss, lsd...

boat trips 4 result..pouting,, spurdog.pollack,
shore trips 2010.... 36.....

wish list 2010..sea trout....
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#2 Post by saltydog »

Decided my first Ray session of the year was over due so picked up lucky and set off for a deep water mark in South Connemara. Cracking day for it good clarity conditions looked good. First cast I'd a small Thornie on whole sandeel. Alan was next up with a better one around the 4lb mark both fish coming over slack water at HT. After that there was nothing happening we varied the baits but no joy we both had a couple of knocks we fished it into darkness to see if the fish would come on the feed. lucky had a baby Thornie on the last cast it tried to scoff a whole sandeel eyes bigger than the belly stuff :lol: what little breeze there was died and there was no movement at all on the water so we said we'd call it a day. lucky's 1st Ray was sitting on a rock in front of us for a good hour sulking after being returned with the tide dropping we said we'd help it on its way beautiful sight to see Ray swimming on the surface...

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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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#3 Post by chrisfeeney30 »

well done lads! nice session! Nice to see a few ray again! beautiful fish alright
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#4 Post by Stephen8wood »

That was beautiful. I'm not taking the piss either, it really was. Well done lads.
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#5 Post by hugo »

Brilliant :D :D :D
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#6 Post by red »

good goin lads. class video too
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#7 Post by bigbadtom »

Great fishing lads and some really nice ray, well done.
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#8 Post by fishermannum1 »

nice session lucky/conor, its good to see the thornies apearing again in the shore reports 8)
will be trying a few ray marks again soon...
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#9 Post by junior conger »

nice fish
brilliant session :D
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#10 Post by lucky »

junior conger wrote:nice fish
brilliant session :D
well lads i have to thank conor. for taken me to the mark.. and once again cheers conor great pictures. well done.. we will have to do it again soon.....
SHORE SPECIES 2012... coalie,

boat species09~~~pollack,cod,haddock,whiting,doggies,bullhuss,tope,john dory,thornebsck,blonde,blue shark,spur dog,wrase,gunnard,pouting,

shore species 2010~~~ dab,flounder,thorneback ray,pollack,plaice,coalies,turbot,wrasse,bull huss, lsd...

boat trips 4 result..pouting,, spurdog.pollack,
shore trips 2010.... 36.....

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#11 Post by FisherKing »

Nice 8) Cant wait to catch one, well done lads
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#12 Post by stevecrow74 »

nice fishin lads..

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#13 Post by mann »

Great result lads,

It actually warmed me up looking at the Thornbacks as it lets me know summer is not far away, next week I will start to attack them… I’m running out of excuses for taking time off work but I’m sure I will think of something by next week, :D

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#14 Post by evan699 »

Nice to see a few good fish starting to turn up. I've yet to catch my first ray so it's on the wish list and i'll have to go on a hunt soon. Well done lads. Keep at em, it's only a matter of time b4 the big fellas start showin up. :P :P
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#15 Post by corbyeire »

they are there year round - seems like a nursery area by all accounts

as you said lucky they have amazing patterns out that side
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#16 Post by KERRY1 »

Well done Connor and lucky, those rays are amazing 8) I'm so jealous! :mrgreen:
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#17 Post by beachcaster »

some lovely markings on the ray ,well done on a nice session.always good to see the return of the rays to the shore line again.
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