Apollo goes to Kerry Episode II

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donal domeney
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Apollo goes to Kerry Episode II

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Day 2 Monday, a solo run with the plan of adding one specific species for the 2015 fish list.
A couple of stops on the way out for mackerel all turned up with blanks. :evil: It’s always a bad sign when the gannets start following you. :lol: :lol:
First drop and a pollack before it hit the bottom, doom didn’t need them. Well what would you expect to catch while fishing over a reef? So after a few pollack and ling I moved to another corner of the reef and up they came, a couple of bluemouth. :D :D :D One of the nice things about them is once released they head back down unruffled by the experience. Got what I needed a specimen bluemouth weighed on shore at 0.92kg.

To add to the day I had a minke whale who kept surfacing around the boat for about an hour.
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Specimen Fish 2024: Shore Rockling (3) 36cm, 34cm, 31cm; Thick Lipped Mullet (2) 58cm, 57cm; Smooth Hound (1) 109cm; Sting Ray (1)125cm; Ballan Wrasse (1) 48cm ; Corkwing Wrasse (1) 24.8cm. Golden Grey Mullet (2) 43cm, 1.8lb; 40.6cm, 1.55lb;
Total species boat/shore: 45
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Specimen Fish 2025: To date: 6.
Flounder 46cm; Spurdog 120cm; Stingray 91cm; Smooth Hound 114cm; 103.5cm; 104cm
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Lovely stuff! Well done.
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Great pictures Donal! Good Effort!!
2019 Species:
Codling, Whiting

2017 Species:
Mackerel, Dog Fish, Whiting, 3 bearded rockling

2016 Species:
Pouting, Cod, Coalfish, LSD, macks, pollock, dogfish, Bass, Eel, Garfish, Ling, conger, yellow fin tuna, Skipjack Tuna, parrot fish, Trigger fish, Scad, Conger, whiting

2015 species:
Codling, sea bass, mack's, flounder, Dab, three bearded rockling, coalfish, dog fish, bull huss, ballen wrasse, Pollock, European eel, cuckoo wrasse, ling, conger,scorpion fish, cod, pouting, blue shark, whiting
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Nice result getting the target species, what sort of depth were you fishing, I was under the impression they were a real deep water species? Great seeing the minke whale too, I've seen them a couple of times but found them to be quite boat-shy, maybe it's just my boat!
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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johnwest wrote:Nice result getting the target species, what sort of depth were you fishing, I was under the impression they were a real deep water species? Great seeing the minke whale too, I've seen them a couple of times but found them to be quite boat-shy, maybe it's just my boat!
Fishing a reef in 330ft of water, the bluemouth were on top of the reef in about 180/200 foot of water. had a total of 8.
The minke got too close to the boat for comfort and at one stage breached about 40 feet away
Specimen Fish 2024: Shore Rockling (3) 36cm, 34cm, 31cm; Thick Lipped Mullet (2) 58cm, 57cm; Smooth Hound (1) 109cm; Sting Ray (1)125cm; Ballan Wrasse (1) 48cm ; Corkwing Wrasse (1) 24.8cm. Golden Grey Mullet (2) 43cm, 1.8lb; 40.6cm, 1.55lb;
Total species boat/shore: 45
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Specimen Fish 2025: To date: 6.
Flounder 46cm; Spurdog 120cm; Stingray 91cm; Smooth Hound 114cm; 103.5cm; 104cm
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Great results Donal very well done on the specimen 8) I believe they make great eating. Two years ago we had a minke for company about 12 mile off dublin that decided to rub itself off the anchor rope a few times very strange when your bow starts nodding down with whale power, a fantastic experience all the same. :D
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JOHN1 wrote:Great results Donal very well done on the specimen 8) I believe they make great eating.
Some say they taste the same as specimen pouting :P sweeeeeeeet :lol: :lol: :lol:
Specimen Fish 2024: Shore Rockling (3) 36cm, 34cm, 31cm; Thick Lipped Mullet (2) 58cm, 57cm; Smooth Hound (1) 109cm; Sting Ray (1)125cm; Ballan Wrasse (1) 48cm ; Corkwing Wrasse (1) 24.8cm. Golden Grey Mullet (2) 43cm, 1.8lb; 40.6cm, 1.55lb;
Total species boat/shore: 45
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Specimen Fish 2025: To date: 6.
Flounder 46cm; Spurdog 120cm; Stingray 91cm; Smooth Hound 114cm; 103.5cm; 104cm
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