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Clifden bay ray

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People:myself and the nephew

Duration:3 hours

Tide:ebbing to low tide

Weather:f4 westerly

Bait:macks sand eel

Rigs:2/3 hook flappers

Results:7 thorn back and 2 doggies




Report:took the nephew down to a local hot spot for thornies
He never caught one before and was into a 41cm within 10 min
We only took a small bit of bait and by the time we ran out we managed
7 thornies and 2 dogs. Biggest ray was 53 cm Smallest was 41cm
Thank god the fishing getting better !
2013: 22
macks pollack doggies coal fish codling grey gurnard red gurnard haddock whiting
Sandeel conger thornback wrasse blenny three bearded rockling pouting turbot scad ling
Squid ballan wrasse flounder
2014:
Conger coalie doggie rockling whiting thorn back collie turbot flounder blenny
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Re: Clifden bay ray

#2 Post by Determined Dan »

Did you measure them wing to wing or nose to tail? Well done on the rays nice to get the juniors interested. Tight lines. Did you get a pic for the specie. . . . . :P
20107xthornback ray. {PB 14.5LB TB RAY} 1xpouting. 1xcodling.11xdogfish. 25xflounder.1xshore rock ling. 177xmac 4xturbot.1 bull huss.1sea trout. 1 MAYO BASS.2011. WHITING X9. COALIE X3. FLOUNDER X7. DOGGIE X8. THORNIEX3. CODLINGX1. SEA SCORPIONX1. 5 BEARDED ROCKLINGX4. SEATROUT X1. TURBOT X1. POLLACK X7. 3 BEARD ROCKLING .2012 SEATROUT X3. TURBOT X5. FLOUNDER X7. 3B,ROCKLINGX1.DOG .
. 2013.shore species ..... Flounder, dog conger pollack sea trout plaice. Gobyx3 wrasse cork wing wrasse Huss scorpion fish sp. coalie .
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Re: Clifden bay ray

#3 Post by flounder5791 »

nice few fish well done
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TARGETS 2013: A decent bass from north Clare and some decent pollack

Species 2012:18

SPECIES 2013: 5B rockling,3b rockling,LSD's,flounder,coalies,whiting,dab,turbot,conger,bull huss,thornback ray,bass,cuckoo wrasse,mackerel, launce, pollack,painted ray, ballan wrasse
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Re: Clifden bay ray

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Determined Dan wrote:Did you measure them wing to wing or nose to tail? Well done on the rays nice to get the juniors interested. Tight lines. Did you get a pic for the specie. . . . . :P
Cheers dan
Wing to wing. Got the pics and all
Ill give ya a gander at them in whitestrand in a few weeks
2013: 22
macks pollack doggies coal fish codling grey gurnard red gurnard haddock whiting
Sandeel conger thornback wrasse blenny three bearded rockling pouting turbot scad ling
Squid ballan wrasse flounder
2014:
Conger coalie doggie rockling whiting thorn back collie turbot flounder blenny
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Re: Clifden bay ray

#5 Post by Deleted User 3488 »

Nice few Ray,,we had a few small Ray ourselves over that way the bank holiday weekend,,nothing worth reporting though.
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Re: Clifden bay ray

#6 Post by Robk »

MONKEYwrasse wrote:Nice few Ray,,we had a few small Ray ourselves over that way the bank holiday weekend,,nothing worth reporting though.
Give me a shout next time your about
I might know a good spot or two for the slightly bigger ones !!!!!!
2013: 22
macks pollack doggies coal fish codling grey gurnard red gurnard haddock whiting
Sandeel conger thornback wrasse blenny three bearded rockling pouting turbot scad ling
Squid ballan wrasse flounder
2014:
Conger coalie doggie rockling whiting thorn back collie turbot flounder blenny
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