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#1 Post by **Stan** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:17 pm

People: 3-4

Duration:6 hours each day

Tide: 3.30 pm/4 ish

Weather:brilliant

Bait:Lug & rag

Rigs: standard 2 hook traces

Results: 5 bass, 1 codling, 2 nice flounders, 1 nice plaice, lots of coalies

Catch and Release:: most

Report:

Fished from 3-6 pm Friday. Caught 3 bass between 2-3.5 lbs plus coalies and plaice. Non stop action

After a nice dinner went back out from 10.30-2.30 am. Got the cod and good size coalies. Lost a lovely bass

Back again on Saturday form 1.30-7pm. Got two nice bass around 3ish. There were thousands of small coalies. I have no doubt that if they were not around we would have got more bass. I was fishing 2 rods and no sooner had they hit the water than I would have 2 coalies on each. I missed 2 bass. One of the lads was catching 3 coalies at a time.

That evening we had 1 baked bass, two fried flatfish and cod plus coalies fried with onions and mushrooms.

Before people start moaning about killing fish I reckon that we kept 7 fish and caught over 100. That is catch and release.

#2 Post by **cortaz** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:46 pm

hi stan,
good fishin, nice to see a plaice turn up, thers a guy that gathers carrigeen in the rock pools, he lives locally. he gets a few in may/june. he,s had them to near 3lb.
i,ve tryed for them several times there with no luck, :( .. yet?

#3 Post by **Stan** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:17 pm

Hi Arthur, Whiting Bay used to be great for plaice but I have not caught one there in years. Ballyquin was great for big flats years ago but they seem to be a bit thin on the ground now. I even caught brill there at one time. Cormac Walsh told me that he dived outside Ballymacart a number of years ago and saw many plaice and sole not too far out.

I suspect that tangle nets did quite a bit of damage to the flatfish population over the years.

#4 Post by **Stan** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 10:21 pm

Hi Arthur, I will have to try Clonea in the near future. Seems to be a brilliant beach.

#5 Post by **cortaz** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 11:17 pm

hi stan
on the 18th. my neighbour had 1 of 11.5 lb. there. in the last 3 months theres been at least 10/12 specimen,s cought on clonea/ballyquin all have been submitted to the s.f.c. for certs.

#6 Post by **Stan** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:30 pm

Look at the sun. It could have been Spain.

#7 Post by KK » Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:01 am

Cortaz what is a carrigeen????

x · #8 Post by x » Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:01 pm

It's an edible seaweed...

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