Myself and john had a session down in clare a few weeks ago,and I wrote a LONG report but thru carelessness I lost the bloody thing ,and its taken me this long to rewrite it, we were on a connamara beach on the friday night with turbot for john the target,well, on the way there we had a pitstop in leenane,which went on a bit longer than expected, we eventually got to the mark and set up,within ten minutes john had got his target species! A nice turbot 25cm,the fish came on the feed, and it was nearly a fish a cast after that,dabs and flounder up to 28cm another species for john,as he had not had a dab before,we quit about one,as we had a long drive down to clare in the morning,and had planned a early start,unfortuntully we also had four litres of devils bit cider in the motor which we HAD to finish, soo..... we were on the road a LOT later than planned the next day,which meant we did not get to the mark till about three! Wrasse were the target fish here and soon after I dropped a bait down,i had my first corkwing wrasse of the season,i was just starting to slag john,when he got a cracker of a bite and his rod bent double,a fine ballen wrasse was soon landed after a fantastic fight on johns light spinning rod.it weighed 3lb4oz! This is the way it went for the next three hours,with ballens coming thick and fast,mostly to john I hate to say,the slagging I got!! but I had a few too,and was not too upset.john also got a nice pollock about two lb.we quit at six as england were playing,and went to O Looneys Pub in Lihinch,which has to be the best pub in clare! and proceeded to celebrate a bit too much,but what the hell,we were on tour!
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species 2012.........(12)seatrout,bass,turbot,flounder,brill,lsd,coalie,shore rockling,pollock,pout,poor cod,gray gurnard
seems you had a ball there gents, don't you just love the weather, nothing beats to be out on an angling tour in good company and some nice fishies to boot . Don't know the pub Noel you've mentioned but seems to be worth a try next time I'm out there, we always go to the one just up from Fenore but that's a different story altogether nice report btw
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Well done lads, excellent report and really nice wrasse there. Were there any hangovers at all or was it just all positive stuff,you two sound like my type of guys
Species '20 (14) 5 Beard Rockling, Shore Rockling, Codling, Whiting, Pollock, Coalfish, Pouting, Corkwing Wrasse ,Ballan Wrasse, Poor Cod, Dab ,Smoothhound,Flounder, Thornback Ray
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Mick001 wrote:Nice Going Noel & John
Some realy nice Wrasse there. They sure do hit hard and give a good scrap.
Mick
cheers mick,was good craic all right,and on light gear,fantastic fishing.
lucky wrote:nice going noel.. i thought you would find it hard to leave leenan that day... good report. and fishing....
did not want to leave alan,but fishing had to be done!
The Austrian wrote: seems you had a ball there gents, don't you just love the weather, nothing beats to be out on an angling tour in good company and some nice fishies to boot . Don't know the pub Noel you've mentioned but seems to be worth a try next time I'm out there, we always go to the one just up from Fenore but that's a different story altogether nice report btw
great weather,good company,and good fishing,what more would you want martin.and o looneys is a great pub!too bloody good!
bigbadtom wrote:Some nice plump wrasse there lads. Great fishing well done.
cheers man,very enjoyable weekend!
FisherKing wrote:Nice one lads good fishing, drinking & craic, dosent get much better
thats a fact brian!
Determined Dan wrote:well done lads. good fishing and good pics.
cheers dan,will have to meet up again soon.
Determined Dan wrote:well done lads. good fishing and good pics.
species 2012.........(12)seatrout,bass,turbot,flounder,brill,lsd,coalie,shore rockling,pollock,pout,poor cod,gray gurnard
gfkelly1969 wrote:well done Noel and John nice session,some lovely wrasse
cheers gerry,got to get over your side of the country sometime soon.
saving private brian wrote:nice 1 noel.fine pics
cheers brian.
husshunter wrote:nice wrasse there lads well done
cheers yanto,was great craic catching them!
rustyhookthomas wrote:Top men! Great report on a good session.
cheers thomas,just found a nice spot here in mayo with some crackers,just for when you come down.
Al and Jordan wrote:cracking fishing guys i'm really gettin hooked on the wrasse fishing myself, gotta be one of the best fighting fish pound for pound in our seas
brilliant fish al,we just found a good spot for them here in mayo,just converted two lads over to them.
eyesreilly wrote:Well done lads, excellent report and really nice wrasse there. Were there any hangovers at all or was it just all positive stuff,you two sound like my type of guys
cheers dave,there was hangovers on sunday,but we just went to o connors in doolin to cure ourselves!!
masterkeane wrote:well done noel
cheers
species 2012.........(12)seatrout,bass,turbot,flounder,brill,lsd,coalie,shore rockling,pollock,pout,poor cod,gray gurnard
,and its taken me this long to rewrite it, 
we were on a connamara beach on the friday night with turbot for john the target,well, on the way there we had a pitstop in leenane,which went on a bit longer than expected, 
we eventually got to the mark and set up,within ten minutes john had got his target species! A nice turbot 25cm,the fish came on the feed, and it was nearly a fish a cast after that,dabs and flounder up to 28cm another species for john,as he had not had a dab before,we quit about one,as we had a long drive down to clare in the morning,and had planned a early start,unfortuntully we also had four litres of devils bit cider in the motor which we HAD to finish, 
and proceeded to celebrate a bit too much,but what the hell,we were on tour! 
nice report btw 
, three beard rockling,.shore rockling, 5 beard rockling, flounder, lesser spotted dogfish,bullhuss, dab,bass(13), more whiting : pollock,poorcod,pouting, sea trout(the dodder!)brown trout,sea scorpion,mackerel, silver eel,
