Waterford, Kerry, Limerick 18-21

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#1 Post by **FMCN** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:57 pm

People:me

Duration:

Tide:various

Weather:varied

Bait:lug rag frozen sandeel and lure

Rigs:various

Results:see report

Catch and Release:: 3 bass to 3 lbish, 2 seatrout best 3 lbish, 10 pollack to 4 lb, 7 ballan wrasse to 3.5 lb, 6 dogfish.

Report:Just realised i was fishing for part of this trip beside Eoghan,

Not being a dedicated bass angler my trip was a bit more varied.

Tuesday evening drove to Dungarvan and fished the flood tide at Clonea east from midnight until 5 am and then went to the Cunnigar for high water. 1 schoolie bass.

After a couple of hours sleep drove to Dingle and fished the high tide at a rock mark at Ballydavid for a couple of hours with floatfished rag and trolled sandeel, 2pollack and 4 ballan wrasse.

Thursday: drove up to 2 marks on the Shannon to try for ray. Fished the first 3 hours of the flood at Carrig island west for 4 dogfish and then moved to Kilteery pier for the last 3 hours of the flood 2 more dogs. No ray this time.

Friday: early morning flood lure fishing at the mark reported by Eoghan no bass but 2 seatrout. One about 2 the other maybe 3lb. Back to the same mark in the evening for the top of the tide. This time 2 bass. All fish taken on same bass bullet lure.

Saturday: back on the rocks at Ballydavid, below the big mast. Last time i'll be climbing down here. Good days fishing plenty of pollack to 4 lb and wrasse to 3 1/2 lbs. Would have liked to stick to the wrasse fishing but i went through a lot of crab in a very short time.

Very enjoyable few days fishing.

#2 Post by **corbyeire** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:30 pm

big fishing effort - glad you got your rewards

#3 Post by **cortaz** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 1:09 am

francis.
you did not do to well on the local beaches :( hopefully you will next time :wink:
did the bass take the bullet of the surface?

#4 Post by **FMCN** » Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:18 am

Hi Art

Haven't had much luck of that beach at Clonea yet. Only my second time on it. The firts time it was blowing a gale it was practically unfishable, and the second time last week a flat calm but still only the one small schoolie. Yes all took the bass bullet near the surface. The biggest seatrout was the most spectacular he must have went a foot or more in the air on the take.

iano · #5 Post by **iano** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:09 pm

hi fmcn,
i met you on kilter pier on the thurs ,we tried those marks you showed us on the map ,not much luck though except for sat night on tarbert pier where i got a 5lb strap conger and lost a monster "something" at the surface {i know the classic one that got away tale !!!!} :roll: :roll: :
that rig you showed us done the trick :wink:
fair play to ya

ian

#6 Post by **Eoghan** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:25 pm

Well hello there..! Just read this post now.
Never thought to ask you if you were on this site on Friday or Saturday.

Great little spot for fishing and as you saw seemed to have good numbers of trout and Bass. Even if the bass were hit and miss at times.

Will have to pick myself up one of those little mackerel lures you were using.

If you want I will PM you the location of spot C as I saw you return all your fish..!

Nice to have inadvertently met you..! :-)

#7 Post by **FMCN** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:38 pm

Hi Eoghan

Yes nice to me you and have a chat and yes I return all my fish. Be delighted if you could PM me spot C. I will be down a few more times this year and may even see you again in September.

Iano as you can see i did get something of the pier even it was only 2 dogs and no i didn't take a photograph.