West Clare 09.04.10 Inner Galway Bay 12.04.10

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West Clare 09.04.10 Inner Galway Bay 12.04.10

#1 Post by saltydog »

People: vinnycorrigan & myself on the 9th myself on the 12th

Duration: 20:30-00:30 on the 9th 18:30-22:30 on the 12th

Tide: LT @ 21:20 1.9m on the 9th LW @ 23:01 1.1m on the 12th

Weather: Clear dry wind from the S F3/4 on the 9th NE F2 on the 12th

Bait: mackerel, bluey, sandeel, razor, squid & lug

Rigs: flappers, clipped, flyers animal gear

Results: dogs, pouting, shore rockling, poor cod, long spined sea scorpion, thornback ray




Report: Session on the 9th: Picked up Vinny after work and headed south to suss out a mark neither of us had fished before after some scouting around confusion and getting butterflies in the stomach due to the height of some of the cliffs :shock: we settled on a stretch that put the wind at our backs as the mark opposite was getting hit with random breakers. Seeing as we were going to be fishing into darkness on a new mark we erred on caution. We got set up and Vinny was already fishing when i went to tighten the line on my 525 with a little flick out..... crack :roll: :? we'll try that again tied on a new leader and got fishing.... i'd brought the drop net in the hope of a decent conger so after banging a few out on a pulley with big fish baits in the hope of Huss Spurs or Ray i flicked a conger bait over the side gave it a good soak reeled in to find it picked by crabs... tried a 1up 1 down lobbed out with smaller baits. Vinny meanwhile was off the mark with a nice pouting followed with a long spined sea scorpion. We both got snagged up and had to pull for a break. Vinny then got a couple of poor cod still no fishy for me finally got off the mark with the small baits lobbed out and a shore rockling came in with that i went back to trying for Congers. Vinny the jammey git managed to reel in his lost gear with a nice sea scorpion attached big fat head on him croaking away at us :lol: no conger for me in the end and i was just saying to Vinny it'd be nice to see a dog when he got a doggie rattle and in came doggie we packed up and headed for home. It was worth it to see this mark at first hand and we'll be back soon enough to fish a different stretch of it.

Session on the 12th: With the evening that was in it today i said i'd try the Inner Bay fished it from from about an hour after HT to 30 mins or so before LW managed 4 dogs and a tea bag thorny nice having a mark on your doorstep i think i'll be fishing here a lot after work over the coming months.

Vinny has some pics....
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: West Clare 09.04.10 Inner Galway Bay 12.04.10

#2 Post by lucky »

nice conor.. new marks are always worth a shot.. no blank all the same.....
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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Re: West Clare 09.04.10 Inner Galway Bay 12.04.10

#3 Post by corbyeire »

glad the local spot is producing for you - must go in and join you for a blank some evening!

youve some nerve calling vinny a jammy git - the amount of times he has watched you pull the rabbit from the hat is galling

good man for getting out

i should have been shot for not heading out over that last weekend
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Re: West Clare 09.04.10 Inner Galway Bay 12.04.10

#4 Post by Al and Jordan »

fair play conor. we've been trying some of our summer marks out this way, but unfortunately no joy as yet. just gotta keep at it :P
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Re: West Clare 09.04.10 Inner Galway Bay 12.04.10

#5 Post by FisherKing »

Nice few species,well done 8) have been checking out some new marks myself that look like they might hold some Thornback Ray will be giving them a few casts in the next few weeks :wink:
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Re: West Clare 09.04.10 Inner Galway Bay 12.04.10

#6 Post by saltydog »

Cheers lads heading out after work for a 1st lure session of the year.... coming up on the new moon might be worth it but i don't have too high an expectation bit early me thinks :? but if you dont try and all that :D

corbyeire wrote:glad the local spot is producing for you - must go in and join you for a blank some evening!

youve some nerve calling vinny a jammy git - the amount of times he has watched you pull the rabbit from the hat is galling

good man for getting out

i should have been shot for not heading out over that last weekend
Feel free was sitting at home cleaning reels and just grabbed two that weren't in the sink :lol: it'd be a crime not to go with the evenings were having and sure it's only aroung the corner really.... Some depth there when the tide drops i'd say a 30 yard castover HT would have you in over 20ft of water it'll definately hold Huss later in the year.... be intereting to see if Tope come in there to pup in a few weeks time!!
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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