People:Me,Codswollop,Graham Murray and Alan Murphy
Duration:15th September-20th September
Tide:High tide ranged from 06:00 to 08:00 in the mornings and 18:00 to 20:00 in the evenings over the week.
Weather:Absolutely beautiful. The locals informed us that the day we arrived was the first day they'd seen sunshine in weeks. It kept up for most of the week too
Bait: Lug,rag,mackerel,squid,crab,sandeel and razor.
Rigs:Pennels,basic one hook ledgering rigs,2 hook paternosters and various lures including kiltys,tobys and Lucky craft plugs etc.
Results:Numerous pollock up to 10lb,1bull huss of approximately 8 to 9lb,numerous mackerel,numerous wrasse up to 4.5lb,a couple of small conger and numerous dogfish.
Report:We only had 6 different species. That's pretty unusual. We'd normally catch 8 to 10 different species down here. Not a bad trip though. Pictures to follow soon. One of the big disappointments of the trip was the absence of bass.
Beara Peninsula, West Cork, 15th-20th September 2008
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Re: Beara Peninsula, West Cork, 15th-20th September 2008
Decent stamp of Pollack and Wrasse with a 9lb Huss not bad going 
Like you said very strange no Bass showed for you any ideas as to why they weren't playing ball?
Like you said very strange no Bass showed for you any ideas as to why they weren't playing ball?Shore Species 2011 (31) Ballan Wrasse, Bass, Bullhuss, Coalfish, Cod, Conger, Corkwing Wrasse, Cuckoo Ray, Dab, Dogfish, Five Bearded Rockling, Flounder, Goldsinny Wrasse, Long Spined Sea Scorpion, Mackerel, Plaice, Pollack, Poor Cod, Pouting, Rock Goby, Shanny, Shore Rockling, Short Spined Sea Scorpion, Thornback Ray, Three Bearded Rockling, Tompot Blenny, Tope, Tub Gurnard, Turbot, Undulate Ray, Whiting
Shore Species 2010 (26) - Bass, Black Goby, Bull Huss, Coalfish, Cod, Dab, Dogfish, Five Bearded Rockling, Flounder, Grey Gurnard, Lesser Weaver, Mackerel, Mullet, Plaice, Pollack, Poor cod, Pouting, Rock Goby, Shore Rockling, Silver eel, Starry Smooth Hound, Thornback Ray, Tope, Tub Gurnard, Turbot, Whiting
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Re: Beara Peninsula, West Cork, 15th-20th September 2008
Well to be fair we didn't really hit the optimum locations for them.
We also didn't fish the optimum locations at the advised times, so I suppose we have ourselves to blame to a certain extent.
In saying that we did see literally hundreds of huge shoaling mullet no matter where we went on the peninsula. We didn't bring any mullet gear and we didn't plan to fish for them so we didn't. It would've been some crack though, especially if we hooked one or two!
I hooked one by accident and it gave me an almighty 13 second scrap before it came off.
We'll have to target the bass some other day.
John D.
We also didn't fish the optimum locations at the advised times, so I suppose we have ourselves to blame to a certain extent.
In saying that we did see literally hundreds of huge shoaling mullet no matter where we went on the peninsula. We didn't bring any mullet gear and we didn't plan to fish for them so we didn't. It would've been some crack though, especially if we hooked one or two!
I hooked one by accident and it gave me an almighty 13 second scrap before it came off.
We'll have to target the bass some other day.
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Re: Beara Peninsula, West Cork, 15th-20th September 2008
Pictures coming soon.
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Re: Beara Peninsula, West Cork, 15th-20th September 2008
I'm a bit late adding the pictures for this trip, but here you go!
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Re: Beara Peninsula, West Cork, 15th-20th September 2008
Great photo's John 
looks like fishing heaven ....blue skies, deep water, big fish
looks like fishing heaven ....blue skies, deep water, big fish Shore Species 2011 (31) Ballan Wrasse, Bass, Bullhuss, Coalfish, Cod, Conger, Corkwing Wrasse, Cuckoo Ray, Dab, Dogfish, Five Bearded Rockling, Flounder, Goldsinny Wrasse, Long Spined Sea Scorpion, Mackerel, Plaice, Pollack, Poor Cod, Pouting, Rock Goby, Shanny, Shore Rockling, Short Spined Sea Scorpion, Thornback Ray, Three Bearded Rockling, Tompot Blenny, Tope, Tub Gurnard, Turbot, Undulate Ray, Whiting
Shore Species 2010 (26) - Bass, Black Goby, Bull Huss, Coalfish, Cod, Dab, Dogfish, Five Bearded Rockling, Flounder, Grey Gurnard, Lesser Weaver, Mackerel, Mullet, Plaice, Pollack, Poor cod, Pouting, Rock Goby, Shore Rockling, Silver eel, Starry Smooth Hound, Thornback Ray, Tope, Tub Gurnard, Turbot, Whiting
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Re: Beara Peninsula, West Cork, 15th-20th September 2008
I,d say you still have the smile on your faces 
Species '20 (14) 5 Beard Rockling, Shore Rockling, Codling, Whiting, Pollock, Coalfish, Pouting, Corkwing Wrasse ,Ballan Wrasse, Poor Cod, Dab ,Smoothhound,Flounder, Thornback Ray
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Re: Beara Peninsula, West Cork, 15th-20th September 2008
great session lads, fantastic place to fish ,cant wait to go back down there myself
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