)Duration:9am - 5:45pm
Tide:low at 1:40am
Weather: not what was forecast.. no rain, no wind no clouds. actually quite a very nice day
Bait:mack, sandeel, shads, feathers, jellyworms, etc etc
Rigs:too many to count(and that was just petekd)
Results:13 species and plenty of fish
Report:
after quite a few phone calls in the morning to see where everyone was and make sure everyone was in the area of spiddle (of course bradan was the last to arrive(nothing new there)) we boarded the boat and waited for the skipper(kevin) to show up.. after a few minutes of waiting and having a foreign group cross the boat to get to another boat (Leaca Rua) that was along side the skipper arrived and we were soon on our way..
with the weather forecast to be mostly rain and little wind, after a few very small showers the sky cleared up and the temperature rasied for the rest of the day (at least they got something right-the lack of wind)
our aim was to go monster hunting.. so after a few drifts to pick up mackerel(one drift ended up picking up pollock) we set off for the mark ( apparently a good time to fish tope is on the rising tidal run from slack water) after waiting and waiting with little action(except doggies and small huss(bradan's first ever huss)) it was starting to get tedious.. then bradan caught a nice thornie 6lbs+(whole i was busy bringing in a few species like pouting and cuckoo wrasse)... petekd was gilling and showed bradan the fine art of gilling which entail had the two lads producing a quantity of pollock that would feed a small nation, but mostly all the fish were released to fight another day.. but ut has to be said that the best fish of the day was a very nice fat bull huss brought up by petekd, weighing in at around the 11lbs mark it has to be said that they are a beautiful fish in there own way..with varying tactics rods and rigs used on the day i'd say the most successful was petekd and his gilling method which most of us adapted to by the end of the day..
a good day was had with plenty of craic (endless amounts of slagging mostly aimed at me
)in total i had doggies, pouting, poor cod, pollock, cuckoo wrasse, grey gurnard ans mackerel (7 species on the day)
there were plenty of photos taken on the day so keep an eye on this thread for updates..
p.s. my mind is a bit scattered at the moment
but i think i most things in..and i'm sure that rest of the lads will fill in the gaps and add there bit in time..
