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Ray Day

#1 Post by flounder5791 »

People:me -dad

Duration:1:30-7pm

Tide:hw around 6

Weather:nw gale at the start but died a little later clear skies

Bait:sandeel mack squid

Rigs:pulleys

Results:about 15 ray and 7 dogs and 1 huss




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Headed out for the whole day to try somewhere new . Arrived at the venue at around 1 and had the first cast at 1:30 there was white horses and the sea was very rough so not the best for ray ....... But it didt stop them from the 1st cast till the last only 4 times did we reel in the line to not have a fish this happen 3 times after missed bites and once when i lashed out a whole squid got a decent bite on it brought it in but the hook had been bit off :) great day out and brilliant fishing sandeel was by far the best bait :) thanks gfkelly1969 and freedom1719 for all your help will definately be back again
:) all fish were returned alive and well

Also tried for the first tope of the year tried a spot closer to home at low tide tonight but there was a lot of weed flowing through the channel and the big tides only allowed for a very short window of time :)

Dad has photos of the ray and il put them up tomorrow :) also some of the ray had black heads /snouts which i have never seen
. Conor :)
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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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#2 Post by Determined Dan »

Well done that's a fine session.
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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#3 Post by SeanA101080 »

Great day's fishing lads, all action!
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#4 Post by freedom1916 »

Who's this freedom 1719. Glad you had a good day well done.
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#5 Post by flounder5791 »

Haha sorry wrong name :)
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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: Ray Day

#6 Post by johnwest »

freedom1916 wrote:Who's this freedom 1719. Glad you had a good day well done.
Perhaps he meant "NearlyFreedom1798"?
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.
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Memorable session lads, well done.
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#8 Post by gerty86 »

Nice one Conor! You got to love it when a plan comes together
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Only thing was the wind but other than that it was perfect
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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: Ray Day

#10 Post by the weasel »

Goodman conor on a great days fishing and a busy one at that,fished spiddal on the bank holiday monday and had a pollack of 3.5 lbs of the beach,other than that havent being out that much due to work commitments.

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2013 Species Conger,Codling,Coalie,3 B Rockling,Bullhuss,Whitting,Pollack,Flounder.
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#11 Post by flounder5791 »

a few photos sorry it took a while didnt bother puttin up pics of doggies we all no what they look like and could any1 tell me what the black on the top is most fish caught had it
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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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#12 Post by Determined Dan »

It's called dirty nose ray. Or black nose. I've been told. It's in there jeans / make up, . I think it's to do with the ground they grow up on. Camoflague . IMO .
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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#13 Post by gfkelly1969 »

your welcome conor,
good to see that ye got plenty of ray
the black nose is quite common in ray out this way
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#14 Post by billybob1013 »

Its good to see photos of fish that are slightly different , well done on a good days fishing
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#15 Post by spindlefist »

GOod work there, congrats
2016: dogfish, pollack,

2015: whiting, coalfish, turbot, pollack, ballan wrasse, conger, thornback, short spined sea scorpion , common blenny ,

2014 : dogfish, garfish, launce, common blenny, cuckoo wrasse, flounder, pollack, thornback ray,

2013 species:(15) Whiting, Dogfish, Three Bearded Rockling, bull huss, poor cod,turbot, flounder,pollack, spotted ray, thornback ray, launce, corkwing wrasse, long spined sea scorpion, common blenny,mackerel,

2012 species: Thornback, bull huss, Dogfish, pollack, Mackerel, bass, flounder, turbot, conger,




Species 09:(23) Conger, Whiting, Bass, flounder, Dogfish, dab, corkwing wrasse, pollack, bull huss(8lb 10oz~PB) , thornback ray(8lb~PB), dragonet, ballan wrasse, Blenny, Mackeral,long spined sea scorpion,pouting, coalfish, launce, codling, poor cod, starry smoothhound, 5 bearded rockling, shore rockling..
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#16 Post by corbyeire »

those ray with the black nose are plentyful out there in connemara - but i have seen them on the north clare coast aswell - suppose its only a swim away for them - great session

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