Sligo and Donegal, 11th and 12th March

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Sligo and Donegal, 11th and 12th March

#1 Post by johnwest »

People: Myself

Duration:7 hrs each day

Tide:Last of ebb to full tide.

Weather:Mild, dull, calm.

Bait:Lug and frozen mackerel.

Rigs: 2 and 3 hook flappers.

Results:flounder, pouting, pin whiting, rockling, small codling.




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11th March; Hadn't been sea fishing for a week or two, (giving the trout and pike a go for a change), so I decided to take advantage of a couple of settled days. Pack some mack and dug some lug and tried a beach mark to start. First cast produced a 35cm flounder (to lug for once) and then nothing for the next three hours. This has happened several times at this particular mark so I decided to try somewhere deeper, on reeling in I found I had another flounder but this one was a mere 22cm. The next mark produced 3 more flounder to 27cm, several pin whiting, two pouting and a 3b rockling. Not that many bites in between fish, things were a bit quiet.
12th March; Tried a different beach but this was even slower than yesterday, about 3.5 hours without a bait being touched. A move to a nearby rock mark produced hooks buried in fine weed every cast so a return to yesterday's second mark seemed like the only option. There was practically no swell here at all and the wind had also died away. The fishing wasn't great but I was entertained by a seabird diving close by and catching a succession of crabs and what I think was a blenny, I'd have been quite happy to catch that myself! A few pin whiting showed up eventually, one accompanied by a rather skinny dab, post spawning I presume. (That might explain why I'm not carrying much weight myself....) Last cast with my last lug turned up a small codling so a total of 6 species over the 2 days.
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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: Sligo and Donegal, 11th and 12th March

#2 Post by tight lines »

nice fishing mate a few species to keep you busy over the couple of days but i think thats a dab in the first photo
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Re: Sligo and Donegal, 11th and 12th March

#3 Post by johnwest »

tight lines wrote:nice fishing mate a few species to keep you busy over the couple of days but i think thats a dab in the first photo
Thanks Tightlines, assuming you mean the fish on the ruler, it looks a bit "dabby" but definitely a flounder as the scales were smooth tail to head and the underside was a solid white rather than semi transparent as in a dab.
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Re: Sligo and Donegal, 11th and 12th March

#4 Post by fishy1987 »

Nice mix of fish there :D ,reward for all the effort put in happy days
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Re: Sligo and Donegal, 11th and 12th March

#5 Post by peakle »

both flats are dabs
species 2014(8)cod,coalie,flounder,dog, pollack,bass, turbot,twaite shad

specimen 2014 twaite shad
species 2013(36)flounder, shore rockling, dog, coalie,cod, whiting, dab, poor cod, pollack, grey gurnard, red gurnard, pouting, haddock, thornback ray, grey mullet,ballen wrasse, cuckoo wrasse, scorpion fish, bass,blonde ray, plaice, herring, conger, golden grey mullet, red band fish, turbot, ling, garfish, scad, gold shinny, tom pot blenny, smooth hound, bullhuss, cork wing, dragonet, lesser weaver, painted ray.

specimen 2013 16 golden grey mullet, 1 scad, 1 red gurnard.

species 2012(39) whiting, coalie, flounder,dogfish, poor cod, cod, bass, shore rockling, ling,cuckoo wrasse, ballen, grey gurnard, red gurnard, three bearded rockling, mackeral, plaice, dab, pollack, grey mullet,haddock.conger,gold shinny,cork wing, blonde ray, lesser weaver, megrim, dragonet, thornback , tub gurnard, blue shark, scad, bull huss, tompot blenny, sea scorpion, goby, painted , garfish, pouting,

specimen2012 plaice red gurnard
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Re: Sligo and Donegal, 11th and 12th March

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peakle wrote:both flats are dabs
no there not only the one beside the pin whiting is
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Re: Sligo and Donegal, 11th and 12th March

#7 Post by sparkey+1 »

Fair play for sticking it out when its so slow but some nice fish there
Species 2012: Flounder, Whiting, Dublin Bay Codling, Coalie, 3 Beard Rockling, Shore Rockling, Bass, Dogfish, 5.2lb Starry Smoothhound (PB), Twaite Shad, Thornback Ray 5.8lbs (PB), LSD, Pollock, Ballan Wrasse, Cork Wing Wrasse, 43cm Flounder (PB)

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Re: Sligo and Donegal, 11th and 12th March

#8 Post by leadhead »

two days fish'n away from it all :D what more can a man ask for.........
good report & fish
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Re: Sligo and Donegal, 11th and 12th March

#9 Post by FisherKing »

Nice few fish John 8)
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Re: Sligo and Donegal, 11th and 12th March

#10 Post by Al and Jordan »

nice mix there john. good to see all that moving about paid off for you with a few fish man :P
i tried a pike session myself on monday with only 1 run on the deadbait on the bottom for 11 hours fishing :cry:
i tried everything with the float and plugging too, but no joy. they still seem to be a bit sluggish at the mo.
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Re: Sligo and Donegal, 11th and 12th March

#11 Post by grady »

nice couple of sessions John, flats aint that great in numbers and size until next winter, but more and more spesies will be up soon
well done John
Spesies 2012/ flounder, turbot, colie, whiting,thornback ray, dogfish, pollack, ballan wrasse, corcwing wrasse, dab, cod, sea trout, mackerel, smooth hound

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Re: Sligo and Donegal, 11th and 12th March

#12 Post by roger de dodger »

nice flounder 35 cm is respectible for this time of the year 8) the first flat is a dab defo :wink:
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#13 Post by billy the fish »

seems your a dab hand john, well done mate :wink:
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#14 Post by polaris »

nice going ! good few species ther thats deffo a dab first pic ,,,,,,,,,,nice fishing
2010 species----flounder,dab,whiting,doggies,coalfish,pollock,siver eel,sea trout,bass,ballen wrasse, thornback ray,mackerel,pouting,red gurnard,grey gurnard,conger eel,launce,mullet,ling,cod,tub gurnard,octopus,bull huss,3 bearded rockling,poor cod
2011 species----turbot,seatrout,flounder,whiting,coalfish,L s doggies,3 beard r
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Re: Sligo and Donegal, 11th and 12th March

#15 Post by johnwest »

There's a difference of opinion relating to dab or flounder in my report so can I just state that the only dab I caught is the one pictured with the pin whiting. The flattie on the ruler is definitely a flounder, it was smooth when rubbed from tail to head whereas a dab is quite rough, the lateral line does not have the pronounced bulge above the pectoral fin that a dab has,(see attached picture) and the underside, which I saw but nobody else did, was more opaque than a dab. Hope this settles the matter, regards, JW.
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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: Sligo and Donegal, 11th and 12th March

#16 Post by tight lines »

sorry john i did not read you report right in the first place as i did not see any mention of a dab being caught but your dead right with what your saying sorry again and good fishing

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