Maighdean Mara, Galway Bay 27th may 07

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#1 Post by **stevecrow74** » Sun May 27, 2007 9:06 pm

People:me, nige, fishinmidget, Papa Smirff and 3 others

Duration: a day's charter

Tide: high at 15:27

Weather: force 6-7 winds

Bait: feathers, shad's, jelly eels and mackerel

Rigs:running ledger, sonic spreaders, boom spreaders.. etc etc

Results: pollock, coalfish, mackerel, launce, poor cod, ballan wrasse, cuckoo wrasse, long spined scorpion fish, 3 bearded rockling..(one escapes me) and a spider crab

Report:
left spiddle an stayed close to the north shore due to high winds, started off catching pollock and the odd coalfish, then got my first launce of the year, moved a bit and started catching mackerel :D
baited feathers and nige caught a nice little ballan wrasse, i changed to sonic spreader, and caught a very nice male cuckoo wrasse, and a female cuckoo..

moved again and anchored up.. and caught more female cuckoo' s , ballans and good size pollock, nige pulled up a long spined scorpion fish..

fish were coming in steadily all day.. good days fishing.. pic's below..

#2 Post by **stevecrow74** » Sun May 27, 2007 9:11 pm

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midget pulling at the sea bed :twisted:

#3 Post by MC » Sun May 27, 2007 9:14 pm

sound like it was rough, but looks like you had a good day

#4 Post by **fishinmidget** » Sun May 27, 2007 9:19 pm

it happend to you too. a good day all in all in the end i ended up catching some nice pollack on a 5 1/2" shad on a spinning rod. great fun. best pollack around the 5lb mark. lots of macks too.

#5 Post by **chrisfeeney30** » Sun May 27, 2007 11:03 pm

unreal pictures! sounds like a good session lads! well done!

#6 Post by **nialler** » Mon May 28, 2007 2:21 pm

i was on that boat in the background of your last pic, we went right out in to the rough weather and caught nothin, the fish got plenty of free grub tho it was howlin out ther, you's done a lot better then us, good fishin lads

#7 Post by **stevecrow74** » Mon May 28, 2007 2:36 pm

were you on the Tiarra queen????

#8 Post by **nialler** » Mon May 28, 2007 3:44 pm

Yeah we were, bit of a disaster really haha... got to have lunch on the islands tho..

#9 Post by **stevecrow74** » Mon May 28, 2007 4:07 pm

nialler wrote:got to have lunch on the islands tho..

did the fish enjoy the lunch :shock: :shock: :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: