Sligo Rock & Beach Mark, April 4th & 11th 2013

[FisherKing]

People: Myself

Duration: 3Hrs & 4Hrs

Tide: Filling

Weather: Good light easterly

Bait: Spinner & Mackerel

Rigs: Two hook flappers

Results: Pollock & Turbot




Report:

April 3rd

Haven’t had a lot to report the past few months apart from four blanks in row from the beaches so I grabbed the spinning rod & the headed for a rocks, but after two hours & not a bite I was beginning to think a fifth bank was on the cards but luckily a wee Pollock took the spinner & saved the day stayed on for another hour but not a bite. The rock fishing is very slow this year just hope it improves over the coming weeks.

April 11th

I tried a local beach as there’s was a nice surf running & not a surfer in sight which was great for a change cast out one rod at distance & the other in close both baited with small Mack strips but yet again the baits were coming back untouched & after three hours I just had enough & started reeling in the line to head for home but to my surprise a lovely little blank saving Turbot appeared on the bottom hook of the distance rod happy days Thinking I was in for a great session I decided to stay on for another hour but nothing else showed up but was just happy to have caught something.

A few pictures I took of a wee Sole we found out after Razor fish my first one to see around here he was buried in the sand at low tide he looked like a bird had pecked him & also a dead Mullet what ever happened to him!!

[grady]

Good to see somthing been cought these days. Wonder did fishing go any better since?
Nice little sole there.
Well dome Brian

[flounder5791]

At least you bet the blank thats an awful mangaled looking mullet

[Determined Dan]

A nice few fish there great to beat the blank. That's a class little sole. Lovely to see very rare down here in the west, well done for spotting it.

[chuckaroo]

brilliant pics Fisherking. stunning wee turbot and a class pic of the sole, great find
slim pickings all round our shores at the moment. think the whole system is at least a month behind itself after the cold easterlies... onwards and upwards!

and that mullet? do ya think the skinners got him!?
http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/foru ... rs#p306581

[seanie35]

Id say that mullets dead , well done on the others cool little sole

[johnwest]

Good to beat the blank, bad on the beaches, not good on the rocks, starting to run out of options! Nice pics but that's a big sole, here's a wee sole! ( from Rosnowlagh last year). Glad to see you're not adding that mullet to your species list.

[FisherKing]

Cheers lads & that is a small Sole Jw Wouldn't mind catching a bigger one. As for the Mullet who knows!!