best smooth hound bait?
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best smooth hound bait?
ok i wanna add another species to the list this year, can u tell me what baits tend to work best?
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biat for smoothies
Hi
I am told peeler crab (two at a time on a pennel rig) on a zip slider rig is about the best you can use... ask Cooke, as he has caught some...
FWIW (which may not be much!) :wink:
I am told peeler crab (two at a time on a pennel rig) on a zip slider rig is about the best you can use... ask Cooke, as he has caught some...
FWIW (which may not be much!) :wink:
Kieran Hanrahan
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2015 targets - a triggerfish, a specimen bass, a three bearded rockling to complete the set and something big and toothy from certain north Mayo deep water marks
Time spent fishing is never time wasted...
2015 targets - a triggerfish, a specimen bass, a three bearded rockling to complete the set and something big and toothy from certain north Mayo deep water marks
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I wouldn't use anything other than crab if you intend to specialise in smoothies. What might be good news is that while peeler is usually the best bait, it is not always the primary bait when specialising. Large softback and leatherback crabs, even harbcaks to a lesser extent still attract hounds and suffer less from interception by other species.
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I must give it a bash.
Off for the rest of the week now, going to get the rod and wet some line...its been a while.....even if its just to sit there and catch nothing. You know how it is when you havent been out for a spell. Gear me up even more for the exhibition. :D
Off for the rest of the week now, going to get the rod and wet some line...its been a while.....even if its just to sit there and catch nothing. You know how it is when you havent been out for a spell. Gear me up even more for the exhibition. :D
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would ye say any of these beaches for smoothhound and tope are relatively accessible from carlow.
shore species 2008(25):dogfish(3.1lbs), bull huss (12lb 2oz), bass, shore rockling, coalie, whiting, pollack, conger (22.4lbs),flounder, thick lipped mullet (4.8lbs),turbot,ling (11.2lbs),ballan wrasse(4.5lbs), cuckoo wrasse, pouting, poor cod, cod (9.5lbs), dab, 3 bearded rockling, long spined scorpion fish, corkwing wrasse, plaice, trigger fish, sea trout, garfish
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cheers for that. may try it towatds the end of the year
shore species 2008(25):dogfish(3.1lbs), bull huss (12lb 2oz), bass, shore rockling, coalie, whiting, pollack, conger (22.4lbs),flounder, thick lipped mullet (4.8lbs),turbot,ling (11.2lbs),ballan wrasse(4.5lbs), cuckoo wrasse, pouting, poor cod, cod (9.5lbs), dab, 3 bearded rockling, long spined scorpion fish, corkwing wrasse, plaice, trigger fish, sea trout, garfish
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cheers for that. may try it towatds the end of the year
shore species 2008(25):dogfish(3.1lbs), bull huss (12lb 2oz), bass, shore rockling, coalie, whiting, pollack, conger (22.4lbs),flounder, thick lipped mullet (4.8lbs),turbot,ling (11.2lbs),ballan wrasse(4.5lbs), cuckoo wrasse, pouting, poor cod, cod (9.5lbs), dab, 3 bearded rockling, long spined scorpion fish, corkwing wrasse, plaice, trigger fish, sea trout, garfish
regards neil
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