People:Me
Duration:4 hrs
Tide:Flooding
Weather:Beautiful, warm and calm.
Bait:Fresh mackerel
Rigs:2 and 3 hook flappers
Results:dogfish, dabs and a poor cod.
Report:
Decided to try a beach which I hadn't fished before and arrived at 9.00pm, set up 2 rods and sent them both out far as it was very calm with no movement at all in the water, it was also still very bright. Nothing happened for a couple of hours; the only bites I got were from the ever increasing numbers of midges. I smeared on some insect repellent which helped quite a bit but of course you aren't supposed to get the stuff near your eyes, nose or mouth, the midges favourite spots. Once dusk approached the fish came on the feed starting with a dab and followed by 8 dogfish, another dab and a small poor cod. All the dogfish were females, I must have ruined a hen party's night out. I had been hoping to get a ray or two from this beach but not on this trip. However it was a busy enough session so I will return. Actually I did the following night and never got a bite!
Donegal Bay 19/06/2013
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Donegal Bay 19/06/2013
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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 19/06/2013
What no coffee and sambo break JW
anyway well done few fish caught 


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)
Species 2013: Coalie, East Coast Codling, Smoothounds, And hopefully a back opp to get back fishing soon...
Species 2013: Coalie, East Coast Codling, Smoothounds, And hopefully a back opp to get back fishing soon...