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#1 Post by **donal murphy** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:38 pm

last year i was trying my best to catch a tope from the shore mainly fishing kilcoole and newcastle but nothing. ive heard rosslare point is worth a shot fishing into the deep channel.
the thing is ive never fished it and havent a clue where the deep channel is, so i was hoping someone here could tell me where it is.
i was reading the fishing guide on this site and what i can make of it is the beach runs right up to the point and then i presume it gets rocky, now is the deep channel on the beach side (right handside of point), the tip of the point casting out to see or on the left of the point casting towards wexford harbour?
cheers
donal

#2 Post by **bovenip** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:19 am

I gave it a go after the article in Sea Angler Ireland the summer before last but to no avail... If you follow the road along Rosslare Strand it eventually leads onto the back of the beach on the point. You can drive along the beach and park about 300yards short of where they say to fish (on the very point there is a breakwater of boulders and apparently this is the place to go.)
We fished into the dark on a rising tide - 2 rods with mackerel flappers in the channel and 2 rods with peeler crabs for the chance of a bass/smoothhound. All we got were about a billion dogfish and 2 gurnard. The current here is a complete joke - I don't know what you have to do to hold bottom.
There were about 4 or 5 fairly serious lads fishing here that night who looked like they knew what they were doing so it must deliver the goods once and a while (or maybe they just read the same magazine article as me!)

#3 Post by **kieran** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:08 am

Hi

Sorry you did not do so well there but it is the right spot. Some anglers seem to fish it more to the seaward side rather than on the very point itself... perhaps this helps with the current? It is a ripper. When I fished it I tried 6 oz gripper leads and float fished using a pike paravane and that was on a few of the smaller tides. A small semi-inflated balloon will do the same trick if you have no pike gear handy. If you are using this tactic you must make sure that the wind and tide are running together.

From what I have been told since livebaiting a joey mackerel is very effective although some anglers say it produces the goods on legered baits. If the current and depth were not there, neither would the tope...

No one said it would be easy! C'mon guys, did you honestly expect to get one first time out? I've been fishing a tope mark for years, well a few days every year, even seen them caught on the same rig and bait as my own, yet to get even a single hook up!

This year, I swears it will happen! :D

#4 Post by **bovenip** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:55 am

I was more dissapointed that I had no luck with the smoothies to be honest! I was more or less expecting to blank with the tope, but heard that the smoothhound can be here in large numbers during the summer months as well as ray.
Have you ever tried fishing the inside of the headland (where you park the cars)? It looks like it may have good potential for bass/flats in the channels, but when we were getting out of the car we had bigger fish on our minds!

Liamo · #5 Post by **Liamo** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 12:14 pm

Hi,

I made the long journey from Kerry last June to have a crack at the tope here as well and like yourself had a second rod out with crab as I've never had a smoothound and either would have kept me happy.

Fished a dawn tide from 4 in the morning onwards. I have never seen so many dogfish, it was an absolute nightmare. I couldn't keep two rods out the dogs were coming in so fast. Even after dawn broke and the sun came up the dogs still didn't abate. And they were gobbling down peeler with equal relish.

Beautiful looking mark with all the right features for tope but I would be slow to make the journey again. Could not believe the amount of dogs that were there.

I would much prefer to be blanking here, a good sign that bigger predatory fish are cruising around. Maybe small flats taken from the back or livebaits would be the answer. How crucial is distance casting for these fish from this venue?

Liam

#6 Post by **donal murphy** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:03 pm

cheers lads thanks for the replies, i will try this mark in the summer months, but the thought of catching loads of dogs is a bit off putting but i suppose they r everywhere!

ATT: KIEREN im hoping to defo catch one this year myself the closest i came to catching one was when a couple of years ago me and a mate where doing an overnighter on kilcoole, the next day was a scorcher in the height of summer so we were taking refuge from the sun in the beachbuddy when i heard something hit the shingle. when we looked out my mates rod was gone with the rod stand facing the sea! anyway to cut a long story short he used my rod to try fish his rod back and eventually got it with the hook line cut as if done by a knife. we werent even fishing for tope so wouldnt of caught it anyway, but ever since then i have been determined to get one. kilcoole, greystones and newcastle are supposed to throw up a few of them every year

#7 Post by **FMCN** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:50 pm

Also read the article in magazine and made the trip to Rosslare point last June. Took a walk down on the Friday night when I arrived to look it over and one guy was trying to fish into a howling N. Easterly which is straight in your face here. Chatted for about 30 mins, in which time he told me the most important things where the tides, bigger the better. He actually pointed out an island in the bay which had a step in the beach and unless the water was covering the step don't waste your time and wind a S or SW from which you are sheltered here is best. My first session was the following morning, on the point for 8.00am (high tide was midday), wind eased a lot but still NE and tides not as big as recommended. Fished for three hours with lots of knocks and a few dogfish managing to get down a a 6/0 hook baited with mackerel cone. At 11.30 near top of tide I was as you would expect not watching my rod for 10 seconds when i heard a clatter, turned round to see my rod moving down the beach, dived on it and after 10 mins had my first shore caught tope beached estimated 25lbs. I was fishing directly out from the end of the promontory in line with it. Be warned trying to land a fish this size on your own here is difficult, at least it was for me. Managed to smash two rod rings on rocks in the process. Fished again on Sunday morning but nothing. Tides are fierce but without this the tope wouldn't be here. Already planning this years June trip and plan another later in year.

#8 Post by **iona** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:25 am

i fished this mark in July.

2 rods one with a mackeral bait... didn't move for 2 days.
2nd rod with worm and crab. in 2 trips i took approx 1.5 dozen bass and 3 small tope.

the bass were all 1-2lbs and the tope weren't much bigger :¬(

just shows that they must be there and looking at the other comments how much the place can change from day to day.

#9 Post by **AnglingDan** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:50 pm

Hey Guys, Are They only there in the summertime????

#10 Post by **daithi** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:06 pm

meself and a few of the lads in work fished there last year at the start of summer in milling rain that seemed to blow from every direction. we had peeler, mackerel, sandeel, squid, razor and lug. we had the tides and were sure it would throw up some manner of fish. fishing the point was impossible due to the current constantly tanglin lines so we moved around to the channel but alas no fish. still though we're always hearin of fish bein landed there so i reckon we'll get back down there, maybe bring the tents and whatnot, do the all nighter no social life thing.
dave

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