People:me,
Duration:0800-1900
Tide:hw @ 11.15
Weather:initially, cold, breezey, brightening in the afternoon and quite warm
Bait:mackeral
Rigs:pulleys
Results:7 thornbacks [1 1/2, 3, 3 , 3 , 5 , 5 1/2, 9lbs respectively], 3 dogfish
Catch and Release:: Yes, strangely for ray all were hooked in the corner of the mouth
Report:
initailly headed to schull to fish the coming tide for a few huss.arrived at ahlf seven to the perfect conditions. overcast, gentle breeze and a coming tide. fished here for 4 hours with a few gentle knocks and one definate huss bite but alas i missed it (i'll put this down to being rusty :lol: ) at 12 with the best of the tide gone i needed to come up with a plan b. eventually i decided that i would try my thornback mark. having never fished there at this time of the year i was a we bit scepticle. the fact that this mark fishes best for the last 2 hours of the going and the first 3hours of the coming. arriving at the mark there was a nice wee surf running.
first cast resulted in a small dog to mack and squid. 45 mins later i had not had a touch on either rod. i changed one bait to just mack on its own. 15 mins later i had my first thornie of the year, only a pound and a half but a start. for the next 3 hours i had 2 casts without a bite, resulting in 6 more thornies, 2 dogs and 2 missed bites, one definately a ray. all in all i pretty good days fishing
heres pics of the 2 biggest ray. all weights were estimates
[img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w57/lumpy_013/DSC00069.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w57/lumpy_013/DSC00068.jpg[/img]
west cork rock marks, 23-5-07
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lumpy
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cheers, ya it was just one of those unplannedtrips where everything just falls into place...
shore species 2008(25):dogfish(3.1lbs), bull huss (12lb 2oz), bass, shore rockling, coalie, whiting, pollack, conger (22.4lbs),flounder, thick lipped mullet (4.8lbs),turbot,ling (11.2lbs),ballan wrasse(4.5lbs), cuckoo wrasse, pouting, poor cod, cod (9.5lbs), dab, 3 bearded rockling, long spined scorpion fish, corkwing wrasse, plaice, trigger fish, sea trout, garfish
regards neil
regards neil
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Good fishing Neil :D
Sea Species(25) bass, codling, whiting, turbot, seatrout, stingray, pollock, coalfish, longspine scorpion, ballan wrasse, dogfish, ling, pouting, poor cod, dab, mackerel, smelt, sandeel, launce, bull huss, painted ray, thick lip mullet, golden grey mullet, rock goby.
Fresh Water (2) brown trout, sea trout
Fresh Water (2) brown trout, sea trout