Sligo Tope and turbot sessions

[Kerryman]

Duration 4 hrs Sunday, 2 hrs Monday and 1 hr Wednesday

Tide LW on Sunday, HW Monday and Wednesday

Weather cool and breezy, sunday, dowpours Monday and calm and humid Wednesday

Bait Sandeel and freshly caught mackeral

Rigs various

Results
Tope, Turbot, flounder, sea trout

Fished a surf beach Sunday morning to stock up on some turbot. Some nice ones about the last few weeks and today was no exception, with plenty around the 28 to 35 cm mark, including a nice treble all over 30 cm. Plenty of flounder too and two sea trout - both about a 1lb. Ended up with around 40 fish in around 4 hours, most on fresh mackeral.
Had my first session of the year after tope on Monday evening, after stocking up on a few fresh mackeral I tried a new venue, knowing full well that the usual ones would be full of weed. The weather was awful with torrential rain and the weed make life very hard even with 200 gram grips and 20 lb mainline. The weed dropped off for about an hour to levels which made it just about fishable and I had two runs, both landed, fish of around 25-30 lb. A good start to the season!
Fished a better mark on Wednesday night, much smaller tides and offshore winds but it was still unfishable with weed up until 1 hr before HW. My first proper fishing cast I lost a fish, before missing another run on the next cast. 4 more casts resulted in four fish landed from 20 up to around 40 lb, the latter giving me one of the best fights ever from a tope, almost emptying a Penn 535. It was HW at that stage and the weed returned almost immediately and I had to call it a night. 6 runs and 4 fish landed in an hour, hopefully the offshore winds blow off the weed for tomorrow and the weekend and things should really take off!

[Mick001]

Well done - great report and nice one on the treble Turbot, what a result.
And as for the Tope, well what can I say.

Cracking Result

[eointarmey]

whoah seriously nice sessions and nice report too. would love to get some tope but i cant see it happening for me in the next year but hopefully soon enough !!!

[Tom H]

ok thats as good as it gets nice fishing Kerryman

[lucky]

well kerryman what a session great treble of turbot and as the lads said... tope nice one......

[nicefish]

Half of the Country has just changed their Bank Holiday plans, we are all heading to Sligo, some mighty sessions there well done.

[marshpike]

Cracking fish to catch off the shore, welldone.

Don't take this the wrong way but holding a Tope by the tail can seriously damage its organs resulting in death.

Once again, great shore caught capture.

[polaris]

thats a cracking bita fishing ther,,,,,a big well done,,,

[saltydog]

Cracking session well done

[Rampent Wreckfish]

Is that a certain ex world Champion with the tope???

[corbyeire]

unreal fishing - simple as - great to hear of such a report

[husshunter]

savage fishing well done,lovely turbot and as for the tope SAVAGE

[roryoc]

Is that a certain ex world Champion with the tope???

i was thinking that aswell

[FisherKing]

Thats a super session well done will be on the hunt for one soon

[doggie3131]

thats some fantastic fishing!! well done man!

[Kerryman]

Is that a certain ex world Champion with the tope???

JP
Nah, I prefer the term "in waiting" at the moment!

[Rampent Wreckfish]

Is that a certain ex world Champion with the tope???

JP
Nah, I prefer the term "in waiting" at the moment!

Ha ha, I like it.

Gold all round for the Irish in November!!!

[eyesreilly]

Well done, great report

[peterw]

Great turbot and fantastic tope , SERIOUSLY have to bag one , fingers crossed this year

[The Austrian]

could have been worse