ballyconeely, 9th may

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corbyeire
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ballyconeely, 9th may

#1 Post by corbyeire »

People: myself saltydog and gfkelly

Duration: 1-5

Tide: h about 3

Weather: fairly strong northerly, blowing sand and the like

Bait: squid sandeel mackeral, lug

Rigs: 3 hook flappers, pulley

Results: zilch

Report: 6 rods no fish, had the strippers turn up again on my baits i was more to the south of the lads. - their baits werent touched

same beach i had fished before - was thinking that the 2 months would have brought some fish in - but no completely dead

gerry went to another spot later and nothing either

any body have any positive fish tales from the shore round ballconeely?

pms most welcome
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Re: ballyconeely, 9th may

#2 Post by peterw »

Fished down that way a couple of weeks ago myself , same result as yourself mate . Like yourself I'd like to hear something good from that neck of the woods too
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Re: ballyconeely, 9th may

#3 Post by lucky »

ha brian.. sorry i could not make it... but by the sounds of it i was better off.....
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Re: ballyconeely, 9th may

#4 Post by Al and Jordan »

hard luck lads :( . still some areas waiting to turn on yet :roll: i'll give you a shout for the letrim leg of our tour of the counties until around june i reckon brian. you still up for a chuck then?
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Re: ballyconeely, 9th may

#5 Post by corbyeire »

yea lucky definitely better off not being there - salty even tried periwinkles and limpets

even the rock pools were empty - surely the place cant be dead all the time!
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Re: ballyconeely, 9th may

#6 Post by saltydog »

corbyeire wrote:yea lucky definitely better off not being there - salty even tried periwinkles and limpets

even the rock pools were empty - surely the place cant be dead all the time!
The place looks like a Ray haven but nothing doing the only sign of life out there were spider crabs, limpets and periwinkles lots of them all around the place..... very tasty too the winkles that is!!
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Re: ballyconeely, 9th may

#7 Post by Mick001 »

Hard Luck Lads, Had a Blank myselft this weekend but wont stop me trying all the same...

Brian you have a PM..
Species 2010: Thornback Ray:Codling: 3 Bearded Rockling: Doggie: Common Smoothhound: Flounder: Ballan Wrasse: Starry Smoothhound:[color=#BF0000]Mayo Bass: [/color]Sea Trout

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