Inniscrone Sligo/Mayo

[taz]

inniscrone pier

time 2 1/2 hours

Tide just changing

Bait spinner, toby ,mackeral pollack and crab rig , feathers + jellys

weather choppy enough windy as hell, overcast

Catch 15 nice pollack and one beaut of a mackeral

weather was totally against us, we couldn't get a decent cast out at all even with 5 oz lead wind was way too strong . Set up rigs with mackeral and crab plenty of crabs and sea weed but no eels caught majority of pollack on feathers used a silver spinner caught a nice mackeral plenty of smalls to keep spirits up but a good evening .

getting sick of pollack and mackeral have to find new recipes

[kieran]

Hi Taz

That is about as much as you will get from inniscrone pier.

Next time you are in the area around low water, drive or walk (long walk!) down heading west all the way to the Moy estuary. Fish a single sand eel (snip off tail and mouth but not eyes) either behind a bubble or more effectively sink and draw or scratching along the bottom behind a small lead. Sea trout city. Not bid but many. Chance of a bass or even a salmon!

Bait fishing here many years ago I hooked and landed a small tope as well. Scared a fly fisherman just a bit when I told him it was a small one! :D That was quite freakish, not heard of anything as exotic since...

You can also try fishing a whole small joey mackerel behind a float to see if you get a bruiser of a bass. Usual method off boats in the channels...

Dodgy enough spot with the tide hence need to fish one hour either side of LW only. Sea trout baked with almond and apricot stuffing, very nice.

HTH

[taz]

Cheers kieran will definetly be trying that spot
gonna hit westport tonight trying to increase my speices a bit

[kieran]

westport? :shock:

Feck all there bar mullet and flounder in the area beside the quay...

Head for louisburgh just short of it, the Old Head. Park in the car park and then walk towards the harbour but up and through the woods onto the grass and rocks on the "far side" of the Old Head.

Far better and more species, fish margin for wrasse (I saw triggers here late last year at the very end of the cliff path), dogs, strap congers and the like, small pollack and coalfish, fish the sand for flats, more dogs, and thornback rays. Occassional gurnard and bass reported as well. Macks and launce on a coming tide, you can spin as well especially near any weedy pinnacles for better pollack, on a coming tide and at dusk, they can get up to 2-3 kilos.

hope this helps

[murnblood]

I used to fish the pier years ago with a sliding float, I caught some massive Pollack and mackerel on tiny strips of mackerel on a whip like spinning rod.

When Pollack took the float it was like the barrel scene from jaws float skimming across the top of the water and then disappearing and reappearing yards away.

Fish the float on a stop knot and bead 2-3 foot from the bottom and adjust as the tide rises and falls.

Great Skit

I highly recommend it.

[taz]

Hi Taz

That is about as much as you will get from inniscrone pier.

Next time you are in the area around low water, drive or walk (long walk!) down heading west all the way to the Moy estuary. Fish a single sand eel (snip off tail and mouth but not eyes) either behind a bubble or more effectively sink and draw or scratching along the bottom behind a small lead. Sea trout city. Not bid but many. Chance of a bass or even a salmon!

Bait fishing here many years ago I hooked and landed a small tope as well. Scared a fly fisherman just a bit when I told him it was a small one! :D That was quite freakish, not heard of anything as exotic since...

You can also try fishing a whole small joey mackerel behind a float to see if you get a bruiser of a bass. Usual method off boats in the channels...

Dodgy enough spot with the tide hence need to fish one hour either side of LW only. Sea trout baked with almond and apricot stuffing, very nice.

HTH

hey kieran
where would be the best spot to get sand eels