gurteen and spiddal, Co. galway, 4/1/04.

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#1 Post by **fishinmidget** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:58 pm

People:Me and Donal

Duration:11:00

Tide:i havent a clue.....

Weather:warm, windy, dry..........

Bait:mack and squid.

Rigs:all.

Results:conger, coalie, pout.

Catch and Release:: Yes

Report:well, started at gurteen and got nothing then got lost on the way to spiddal, finally got there and promptly lost a conger....then landed one esitimated 25lb+

. then donal got one around the 8lb mark. then i got the coalie shortly followed by a couple of pout

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after that it all went quiet until when we was packing up i got another conger around the 10-12lb mark.

A very good start to 2007!

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#2 Post by **Drew** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:00 pm

Well Done Alex, Top Notch!

#3 Post by **fishinmidget** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:07 pm

thnxs drew....

Oh yeah......i was using the carbon metal for the congers and a slosh x 20 and would reccomend that set up to anyone.....took even the big boy in its stride

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#4 Post by **toaddi33** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:15 pm

nice conger!!

#5 Post by **jonny gilbert** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:20 pm

well done on the conger hopefully i will get my first conger of the year or fish of the year 2mo nite

#6 Post by **donal** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:05 am

i was suprised to see conger there at this time of year hope thats a good sing for the next year

#7 Post by **corbyeire** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 2:08 pm

was the coalie at much distance?

#8 Post by **fishinmidget** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:33 pm

right under my feet on a small float set so the bait was 7' deep.

Happy now crow

#9 Post by **stevecrow74** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:06 pm

fishinmidget wrote:right under my feet on a deep(7') float.

my god thats a big float you used

how on earth did you cast that.. or did you just throw it in..