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 !
Clifden bay ray
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Clifden bay ray
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
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
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. . . . . 

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 .
. 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
nice few fish well done
Conor McDermott
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
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
Cheers danDetermined 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. . . . .
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
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
Re: Clifden bay ray
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
Give me a shout next time your aboutMONKEYwrasse wrote:Nice few Ray,,we had a few small Ray ourselves over that way the bank holiday weekend,,nothing worth reporting though.
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
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