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bubba gump shrimp
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strangford lough

#1 Post by bubba gump shrimp »

fished strangford lough today with my cousin weather was bright and breezy. We fished a couple of marks on the portaferry side for no longer than 2 hours each just to get a feel for the area as we have never fished here before. The day started of very slow :( until three marks later my rod doubled over with the first fish of the day a 4 & 3/4 lb. sea trout caught on sand eel. This was only my 2nd ever sea trout and a pb. :P for me. :mrgreen:

tryed posting photo but it is telling me it is too big and won't let me if anybody knows wat im doing wrong please let me know

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Re: strangford lough

#2 Post by rab01 »

Well done mate, plenty about at the moment.
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#3 Post by bubba gump shrimp »

yeah seems to be i was just glad not to blank it was the only fish of the day
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Re: strangford lough

#4 Post by chrisfeeney30 »

well done! go to shrinkpictures.com and you can resize the photo and it should work!
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#5 Post by bubba gump shrimp »

cheers i was able to crop it enough to fit i will take a look at that site aswell.
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Re: strangford lough

#6 Post by nifisher »

Thats one bumper of a fish well done.
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[color=#0000FF]Species 2010: 5[/color]Codling, Coalie, Flounder, Plaice, Turbot.

[color=#0000FF]Species 2009: 20[/color] Flounder, Dab, Coalie, Shore Rockling, Pollock, Pouting, Codling, Poor Cod, Whiting, Long Spined Sea Scorpian, Turbot, Lesser Spotted Dogfish, Thornback Ray, Plaice, Ballan/ Corkwing/Goldshinny Wrasse, Rock Goby, Shanny, Sea Trout.

[color=#0000FF]Species 2008: 20[/color] Coalie, Pollock, Whiting, Poorcod, Pouting, Mackeral, Ballan/Corkwing/Goldshinny Wrasse, Rock Goby, Shanny, Long Spined Sea Scorpian, Black Goby, Thornback Ray, Doggie, Flounder, Codling, Shore Rockling, 5 Bearded Rockling, Bull Huss.
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Re: strangford lough

#7 Post by FisherKing »

Fine Trout 8) I'd say it give a good scarp,nice one
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Re: strangford lough

#8 Post by scrob »

4.75lb, cracking trout!! Bonus that you had never fished there before either :o
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Re: strangford lough

#9 Post by crazyfish1983 »

Monster sea trout. Well done. You would hapily blank at every other mark after beaching that monster. :mrgreen:
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Re: strangford lough

#10 Post by Al and Jordan »

cracking trout man 8) 8) 8) . you sound like you really deserved it for hanging on in there and not giving up :P :P .
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Re: strangford lough

#11 Post by kilkeeconger »

Cracking sea trout nice one welldone!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: strangford lough

#12 Post by mann »

Great stuff Bubba,

What a way to save a blank 8) I have only ever caught one from the sea.. that was at inch beach Kerry, it was a little smaller then yours but it also saved me blankin after the long drive down there,

All them fishless hours on that beach seemed to vanish when i landed it, :D :D :D

Well done Bubba dude.
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Re: strangford lough

#13 Post by hugo »

A fine fish indeed :D Congrats, and wish you (and me!) many more.....
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Re: strangford lough

#14 Post by Dawsey »

Very nice fish, well done sir! And only your 2nd trout, plenty more were that came from :D
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Re: strangford lough

#15 Post by GERARDPPM »

There is no bloody fish in strangford lough, amazing, you will get pollack, seatrout and grey mullet at the entance of the lough down to portaferry, but from there up seems to be nothing. Live nearby. Nice trout.
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#16 Post by zeebass »

savage piece of silver ,great report bubba :D
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Re: strangford lough

#17 Post by kerrywez »

Great trout mate well done. Regards Wez
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