near b.Pool West clare 6/10

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#1 Post by **marno** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:23 am

People:Alone

Duration:2hrs

Tide:Flooding

Weather:Fantastic

Bait:Frozen Mack and S.eel

Rigs:3 boom

Results:A trigger a cast...up to 1.5kg (specimen)

Catch and Release:: Yes - Thought about tasting one but got a feeling that they may taste like Wrasse ( My father took some wrasse home after a trip to the Islands when I was a kid and my Ma boiled them.....we had to sell the house!) and I declined. My father took some wrasse home after a trip to the Islands when I was a kid and my Ma boiled them.....we had to sell the house!

Report:The plan was to bait fish while spinning for Pollock. I was ledgering on the bottom for a few casts and then as this was not working I set up a rig with three plastic booms with 4" flowing trace on each. From then on it was a trigger a cast with 2 landed on one cast, I lost 3. Never got a chance to pick up the spinning rod. Some of the hits were fantastic bending the rod into a U shape. They sure put up a scrap mangling size 3 wire hooks, and the chomping while you try to disgorge them - eventually I just tried to straighten them out as best as I could with the gnarled hooks had no adverse effect. Best fun in a long time. Hardy beasts too, the first one was subjected to a phone photo and a weigh-in. After hair and make-up and finally getting a (poor) shot one handed as he spun around then hunting out the scales and weighing, he shot away 8)

Thanks Ronan for the mark info

#2 Post by **corbyeire** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:12 pm

the blue pool on your own - your braver than me

its great to hear all these triggers showing down that way

#3 Post by **stevecrow74** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:37 pm

some good fishin..

triggerfish are supposed to taste very nice, wrasse are nice grilled.. cannot say how much i like garfish :D

#4 Post by **marno** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:41 pm

corbyeire wrote:the blue pool on your own - your braver than me

its great to hear all these triggers showing down that way

Near the Blue pool, in the little bay near by (north).....I could see the ledges @ the pool in the distance and it looked like standing room only. Blue pool on my tod......not me!

#5 Post by **corbyeire** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:01 pm

missed the "near "

:D

#6 Post by **rapalajoe** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 3:04 pm

Both fish taste good if u know how to prepare them....wrasse can be steam with herbs......trigger have a nice firm flesh like a chicken....the things i dont like bout them is u have to use plier to skin them....

#7 Post by **marno** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:37 pm

rapalajoe wrote:Both fish taste good if u know how to prepare them....wrasse can be steam with herbs......trigger have a nice firm flesh like a chicken....the things i dont like bout them is u have to use plier to skin them....

I heard a great recipie for wrasse: Boil in a pot for 12 hrs with a brick......eat the brick!

That being said there are a few here who like them and I was fishing with an old man who swears they are the tastiest fish in the sea.