Dalkey Rocks strange catch!!

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Dalkey Rocks strange catch!!

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Duration:11am-3pm

Tide:Low

Weather:Sunny slight breeze

Bait:Mackeral
Rigs:Feathers

Results:9 Macs, 2 Dogfish, 2 Codling, and a Starfish??




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Having read reports of Mackeral being caught in South Dublin I decided to head down to Dalkey for a mack bash. After a few cast I had the diner with 3 small ones. It went a bit quiet so I baited up the feathers with one of the macs and pulled in 2 Dogfish and a very small codling. I then started using just the feathers (no bait) and caught four large macs together and a few singles. Then I caught a Codling of about .75lb on feathers only, never did that before? My next catch was the strangest!! I cast out and left them out to see what would happen and I pulled in this Starfish. It was the most unusual one I've seen and a PB :) Nice looking creature so I thought I'd do a report.
P.S had the mac for diner I had forgotten how good they taste fresh, delicious!!!
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#2 Post by Jayball10 »

Nice starfish. Much nicer than the ones we've been gettin in Howth.
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#3 Post by evan699 »

I've caught loads of starfish but they always only have 4 or 5 legs. But that one is a strange lookin creature. Fair play. I've only ever caught one codling on plain feathers too. Nice surprise when it happens though.
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looks like a sunstar to me, seen plenty of them diving
see http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Starfish.htm for pics
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Your bang on there Scotsman Sunstar it is!!
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first one i have ever seen like that mate
lovely looking
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#7 Post by gfkelly1969 »

well done nice session,lovely starfish,I am glad to see the baited feathers working well for you,I had a lot of success with the baited feathers as well
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#8 Post by BASS POINT »

This is the first ever record of a SUN STARFISH in Ireland can you please PM me with some details (time-date-location-anything else that would help)
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BASS POINT wrote:This is the first ever record of a SUN STARFISH in Ireland can you please PM me with some details (time-date-location-anything else that would help)
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Isn't it a common sunstar? I thought they were distributed all round Ireland and the UK? I know rarer further south, but if you search the net you find them in surveys from Ireland. See the 2 links below for example. Pretty sure I saw one diving off Connemara a few years ago, although most I would have seen diving in Scotland.

Probably still worth reporting though?

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http://www.marlin.ac.uk/speciesfullrevi ... iesID=3093
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#10 Post by JOHN1 »

i caught one last week out in the boat have a picture on the phone will try get the picture from ph to pc :wink:
my one was about 10inches accross.
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#11 Post by BASS POINT »

ok i was told you do not find them in warm inshore water only off shore in deep cold water
but looks like my information was wrong and that they do turn up on Irish beaches
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BASS POINT wrote:ok i was told you do not find them in warm inshore water only off shore in deep cold water
but looks like my information was wrong and that they do turn up on Irish beaches
Lol - We're all only as good as the info we've been given. You can see by the links that I spent a little while double checking what I thought I knew.
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Ah noooo!!! I was thinkin I was going into the record books there.
Just opened my best bottle of champagne and all
Ah well I'm not bitter!! :D :D :D
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Tommy B wrote:Ah noooo!!! I was thinkin I was going into the record books there.
Just opened my best bottle of champagne and all
Ah well I'm not bitter!! :D :D :D

:lol: :lol: Ah well at least its still a PB :lol:
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#15 Post by JOHN1 »

Here is the picture of the one i got from my boat last week.
sun star (Small).jpg
i think mine is better looking than yours :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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#16 Post by Tommy B »

No way don't like the colours :D :D
I wonder where they are all coming from?
I was down sorrento today and there was about six people in a dinghy chasing
a jellyfish up and down the sound with a tracking device.
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