Mulranny/Curraun; Mayo; 09 Sept 2006

[Sidd]

One:

5Hrs:

High tide and after:

good - a bit windy:

feathers/lures:

N/a:

1 Mackerel 8 Pollock. (kept one):

Yes:: Yes/No



[b]Started at Mulranny Pier at dawn (6:20), very high tide (5.0M) was coming in (set to peak at 7:20). Caught one good siz mackerel using feathers, fished there for about 25 minutes then moved on to the rocks at Curraun. As tide was so high when I arrived was difficult to walk far along the rocks, found a good spot to cast out and caught 2 reasonabe sized Pollack with the first cass (still using the feathers), fished there for bout 30 minutes, caught 4 more Pollack, one large one which I kept. Then moved on, fished around Curraun rocks for a few more hours - drove further on, but caught nothing. The surf was quite high, tried using different lures hoping to catch a bass or something other than Pollack but no luck.
A couple of things I noticed:

My first time using feathers, thought they were great for the distance of casting but one time I was sure I had a big fish, continued to reel in and then the line got completly stuck, tried freeing it by moving around and tugging from different angles and was all set to cut it when I decided to give it one last pull (wrapped a towel round my hand and pulled it expecting to snap the line), it came free and when I pulled it in there WAS a large pollack on the line. I think what happened is that I caught the fish and it darted into cover - snagging one of the other 2 hooks onto rocks or weeds. Is this a common problem when using feathers? A similar thing happened later only this time I did have to snap the line. I think I may have had the drag set too low so that the fish was able to pull the line out and run for cover.

Another thing was that it always seemed to be on the first few casts at a spot that I caught a pollack - after that 20 minutes of nothing. Anybody have any explanation of this? Do Pollack sit in the same spot for a long time or do the cruise around?

I have also posted these questions in the Q and A forum.

Thanks,

Sidd.