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species search dublin to arklow

#1 Post by WrasseBasher »

hows it going lads, im new to the site and am well impressed. have a day or two spare this week and im looking to notch up a few species that i havent got yet this year. will to travel anywhere between dublin and arklow. need to get rockling, coalie, mullet, conger, huss, smoothy any of the rays or anything else unusual. can anyone point me in the direction of a mark or two where i can target the above species from the shore. cheers. :shock:
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Re: species search dublin to arklow

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WrasseBasher wrote:hows it going lads, im new to the site and am well impressed. have a day or two spare this week and im looking to notch up a few species that i havent got yet this year. will to travel anywhere between dublin and arklow. need to get rockling, coalie, mullet, conger, huss, smoothy any of the rays or anything else unusual. can anyone point me in the direction of a mark or two where i can target the above species from the shore. cheers. :shock:



You'll get rockling, coalie and conger on greystones North beach, in fact I think I had five species there one night.
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#3 Post by WrasseBasher »

conger on the beach...? worth a try. saw a dog take a pirk this year and wrasse caught in the middle of an estuary channel so i guess anything is possible
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#4 Post by EoinMag »

WrasseBasher wrote:conger on the beach...? worth a try. saw a dog take a pirk this year and wrasse caught in the middle of an estuary channel so i guess anything is possible


Yep I've had two straps there, one of them almost on the 10lb.
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#5 Post by eric »

theres a big rocky spit that you can see at low tide when heading towards shankill, its just before the shaganagh river, bring plenty of leads!
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#6 Post by nialler »

ennereilly for huss, smouth hounds, and mayb the odd ray... use crab baits
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#7 Post by WrasseBasher »

Wheres Ennereilly...??? how far south down the coast.
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#8 Post by uvox »

ennereilly is south of Brittas Bay, but before Arklow. You can turn off at the Widow Scanlon's pub, and then follow the road on the coast south. you'll see the fishing sign.
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#9 Post by uvox »

isn't here a good chance of bass at ennereilly too? how about ragworm as a bait there, crab is a bit hard to come bu.

I've taken some nice flounder there too...
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#10 Post by ginoceltic »

Courtown north is fishing well for ray at da moment wit fish baits.
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#11 Post by JOHN1 »

uvox i think you might be getting mixed up :lol:.

the widow scanlons pub used to be on pearse street in dublin.

the pub you are talking about is JACK WHITES pub.
thats the widow NEVINS pub :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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#12 Post by WrasseBasher »

ennerielly / courtown, sounds promising will defo give one a bash maybe friday evening/night. chasing my species before the weather turns. species junkie now dont know why that came over me in the last few weeks but good fun to target specific fish rather than just wetting a line. should never have joined this site too many marks to fish now lol, all good though. the missus isnt gonna be happy.
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#13 Post by WrasseBasher »

thanks for the info lads, hope theres no red herrings there :lol:
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#14 Post by nialler »

rag @ ennerreilly should get you a few flats and whiting at least, throw a crab bait out aswell if you can get it... i found sandeels work well down there too... my best catches have all been at dusk on this mark, tide never seemed to affect the fishing there much, let me no how you get on, tight lines
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#15 Post by uvox »

right yeah - jack white's (the widow nevins) pub, not the widow scanlon's. pubs - you'd think i'd be an expert by this stage.

agreed - dusk is the best time at ennereilly.
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#16 Post by loughlin »

any of these spots good on the fly???
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#17 Post by uvox »

I have seen people trying the fly up around the rocks up at the Brittas Bay end, near the river, but don't recall anyone catching anything. it used to be a good spot for sea-trout, but illegal netting there has ruined that - it got so bad a few years ago that there was a garda car parked permanently on the bridge over the river.

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