Tralee Bay, Co.Kerry

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Tralee Bay, Co.Kerry

#1 Post by chuckaroo »

Had a few days fishing with friends in Kerry targeting bass, stingers, gar amongst other things
The weed made the fishing tough at times but good time had by all 8)
A few pics:
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Re: Tralee Bay, Co.Kerry

#2 Post by chuckaroo »

last few:
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Re: Tralee Bay, Co.Kerry

#3 Post by corbyeire »

Great pics
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Re: Tralee Bay, Co.Kerry

#4 Post by delmonte »

If you call that tough I’d love to see a handy session! Fantastic fishing man fair play!
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#5 Post by nicefish »

Some cracking fish and photos.
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Re: Tralee Bay, Co.Kerry

#6 Post by corkconian »

If only the gars played ball we would have had everything we wanted. Just roll on Norway now.
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Re: Tralee Bay, Co.Kerry

#7 Post by johnwest »

That's some collection of species, I've just added undulate and stinger to my bucket list! Is that a weever lurking in that last pic?
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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Re: Tralee Bay, Co.Kerry

#8 Post by mickser »

How could you not catch fish with that massive bait that is surely the reason why you had such a mix of species Well done great photo's
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I have not fished in two years hoping to change that this year with anything ?
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#9 Post by Al »

Great fishing well done!
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Re: Tralee Bay, Co.Kerry

#10 Post by Rob Millard »

Great fishing Charlie, well done!
Species 2019: Common Skate, Pollack, Whiting, Coalfish, Cod, Cuckoo Wrasse, Bull Huss, Lsd, Porbeagle Shark, Mackerel, Grey Gurnard, Thornback Ray, Plaice, Turbot, Ballan Wrasse, Dab, Smoothound, herring, haddock, Blonde Ray, Tope, bass

Species 2018 : Porbeagle Shark, Spurdog, Lsd, Coalfish, Pollack, Ling, Mackerel, Haddock, Red Gurnard, Turbot, Dab, Thornback ray, Homelyn Ray, John Dory, Pouting, Ballan Wrasse, Smoothound, Tope, Bass, Bull Huss, Weaver, Painted Ray, Bluefin Tuna

Species 2017 : Cod, Coalfish, Whiting, Poor Cod, Pollack, Bull Huss, Ling, Pouting, Bass, Flounder, Painted Ray, Lsd, Tope, Ballan Wrasse, Mackerel, Herring, Launce, Haddock, Thornback Ray, Conger, Plaice, Turbot, Grey Gurnard, Red Gurnard, Cuckoo Ray, Tub Gurnard, Dab, Smoothound, black goby, Scad, Cuckoo Wrasse, Megrim

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Species 2015 : (30)

Species 2014 : (29)

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Re: Tralee Bay, Co.Kerry

#11 Post by chuckaroo »

delmonte wrote:If you call that tough I’d love to see a handy session! Fantastic fishing man fair play!
It was tough enough, that was the result of 4 full days fishing, 3 men two rods each! Two full days were practically a waste of time due to weed. Can't complain though :mrgreen:
corkconian wrote:If only the gars played ball we would have had everything we wanted. Just roll on Norway now.
Matter of weeks now James. Not long now!.. 8)
johnwest wrote:That's some collection of species, I've just added undulate and stinger to my bucket list! Is that a weever lurking in that last pic?
It is a weever Paddy, well spotted. It wriggled, and by doing so it dug itself, into the wet sand in front of us. Cool wee fish, and quite a set of teeth on it
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Re: Tralee Bay, Co.Kerry

#12 Post by jellybait »

Well done - Some lovely fishing there - was there many stingers about ? any one else catching them ?
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#13 Post by johnwest »

chuckaroo wrote:.e Cool wee fish, and quite a set of teeth on it
It's not the teeth you have to worry about!
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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Re: Tralee Bay, Co.Kerry

#14 Post by chuckaroo »

jellybait wrote:Well done - Some lovely fishing there - was there many stingers about ? any one else catching them ?
simple answer: nope! Plenty of people trying and hoping for one and plenty of people talking about them but by the sounds of it we got lucky
johnwest wrote:It's not the teeth you have to worry about!
Of course
Charlie

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Re: Tralee Bay, Co.Kerry

#15 Post by guernica84 »

Is the 1st photo a painted ray? What size was the stinger?
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: Tralee Bay, Co.Kerry

#16 Post by chuckaroo »

guernica84 wrote:Is the 1st photo a painted ray? What size was the stinger?
Yip, painted/small-eyed ray in first pic
The stinger was only a few pounds in weight i.e. not big
Charlie

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