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Ballyhack

#1 Post by samo »

People: Me, Heffo , Karl

Duration: 9am to 12pm

Tide:two hours up one down

Weather: bit of rain and cold

Bait:lug, lug wraps, sandeel, mackerel, crab

Rigs: two and three hook

Results: Whiting and Dab


Not much to report headed down to try and get a few decent Whiting and Cod. only managed to take about 12 decent whiting out of it and a few dab. no cod. we had fish every cast but most of the whiting were small



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Re: Ballyhack

#2 Post by guernica84 »

What's the size of a decent one there? We get plagues of them up here this time of the year but not a single one over 1/4 lb.
2013 species (23 shore): flounder, plaice, turbot, dab, coalfish, pollock, codling, mackerel, cuttlefish, silver eel, pouting, 3b & 5b rockling, white trout, salmon, whiting, LSD, ballan, corkwing & goldsinney wrasse, thornback & spotted ray, red gurnard, lesser weever, LSSS
2014 shore (27): flounder, plaice, turbot, dab, coalfish, pollock, codling, mackerel, silver eel, pouting, 5b rockling, whiting, LSD, GSD, tope, smoothhound, ballan&corkwing wrasse, thornback & painted ray, tub gurnard, bass, common blenny, rock goby, haddock, LSSS, poor cod
2015 shore (37): cod, flounder, pollack, coalfish, poor cod, 5 bd rockling, shore rockling, whiting, LSD, plaice, dab, thornback ray, undulate ray, stingray, garfish, conger, ballan wrasse, corkwing wrasse, rock-cook wrasse, goldsinney wrasse, tub gurnard, common & tompot blenny, rock goby, pout, greater sandeel, mackerel, smoothhound, turbot, haddock, scad, red mullet, black bream, silver eel, bass, lesser weever, lsss
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Re: Ballyhack

#3 Post by samo »

The biggest we managed was around 40cm.
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#4 Post by lad123 »

I was there Sunday , impossible to fish it with weed and strong current and i kept losing tacke .... where i got caught once i pulled up 6 grip leads ... happy days until i lost half of em
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#5 Post by Deleted User 3488 »

Not an easy spot to fish at the best of times.
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#6 Post by paul skelly »

Hard luck on the lack of cod lad ,sounds like that's the end of them in numbers till the end of the year :( roll on the hounds :wink:
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Species from the shore 2011:21
Species from the shore 2012:34,
Species from the shore 2013:40
Species from the shore 2014:36
Species from the shore 2015:35
Species from the shore 2016:30
: whiting,pouting,dab,shore rockling,5xb beard rockling,flounder,dogfish,grunt,white sea bream,banded sea bream,black damselfish,blue damselfish, ornate wrasse,lizard fish,sea trout,red gurnard,bass,tornback ray smoothhound,Corkwing wrasse,poor cod,ballon wrasse,cod,pollock,conger,spotted ray,bullhuss,mackerel ,tub gurnard,place,lesser weever,

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