People:Me
Duration:6hrs to high water
Tide:Flooding
Weather:Increasingly windy and wet.
Bait:Lug, squid, sandeel
Rigs:Three hook flapper over the sand, single hook paternoster in the rough.
Results:3 ballan wrasse to 2lb 4oz, 5 corkwing wrasse,4 pouting (v. small), 1 plaice(23cm) and 1 flounder(27cm).
Report:
First shore trip in a long time, all the fish came to the lug. The pouting were tiny, in fact one was a PW. The wrasse went off the feed as the light failed and were replaced by the pouting.
Donegal Bay, 16th September 2011
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Donegal Bay, 16th September 2011
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2013 species; 31
2014 species; 27
2015 species; 28
2016 species; 32
2017 species;28
2018 species; 33
2019 species; ballan wrasse,blonde ray, coalfish, cod, cuckoo wrasse, dab, dogfish, flounder, goldsinny wrasse, ling, mackerel, plaice, pollack, poorcod, pouting, scad, sea scorpion, spotty ray, spurdog, thornback, tub gurnard, turbot, whiting.
2014 species; 27
2015 species; 28
2016 species; 32
2017 species;28
2018 species; 33
2019 species; ballan wrasse,blonde ray, coalfish, cod, cuckoo wrasse, dab, dogfish, flounder, goldsinny wrasse, ling, mackerel, plaice, pollack, poorcod, pouting, scad, sea scorpion, spotty ray, spurdog, thornback, tub gurnard, turbot, whiting.
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Re: Donegal Bay, 16th September 2011
well done,looks like busy sesion 

bass total:
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2010-35
2011-65
2012-16
2013-6
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Re: Donegal Bay, 16th September 2011
terrific session orgeous plaice there!nice few vairied species for the taking
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Species 2011 (25) :Cod 80 , Whiting 50 , Coalfish 42 , Sea Scorpion 6(3shortspined/3longspined) , (3b)Rockling 2 , Dogfish 72 , Flounder 32 , Bass 2 , Poor Cod 16 , Dab 16 , Ballen Wrasse 2 , Turbot 1 , Tompot Blenny 3 , Smoothhound 1 , Tub Gurnard 1 , Mackeral 78 , Pollock 10 , Corkwing wrasse 2 , Black Goby 5 , Pouting 4 , Cuckoo Wrasse 1 , Ling 1 , Conger eel 6 , Silver eel 1 , ( Year End 31st October )
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Re: Donegal Bay, 16th September 2011
Great stuff! Good to see Donegal Bay still giving a good days sport. Got to get out there again soon!
Species 2011: Mackerel, Sandeel, Cod, Coley, Pouting, Ling, Pollock, Cuckoo Wrasse, Red Gurnard, Lesser Spotted Dogfish, Poor Cod.
Species 2012: Mackerel, Pollock, Coley, Pouting
Species 2012: Mackerel, Pollock, Coley, Pouting
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Re: Donegal Bay, 16th September 2011
Great looking plaice there. Good day's fishin' too.
[b]One more cast and I'll be off[/b]