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clifden bay co galway 10 may 2009

#1 Post by gfkelly1969 »

People:myself

Duration:17.30 to 22.00

Tide:high 18.45 4.9m

Weather:bright sunny day with a light breeze from the west

Bait:crab,sand eel,squid,razor fish

Rigs:3 hook flapper,pulley,

Results:4 dog fish 1 crab




Report:squid and sand eel worked best
seen a lot of fish jumping out of the water as well,maybe sea trout
met another angler who was trying feathers for mackerel and pollack but had no luck

strange looking crab to me,not the usual crab i get,this crab walked side ways,its body was six inch long
any one know what type it is?
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Re: clifden bay co galway 10 may 2009

#2 Post by spindlefist »

is it a spiny spider crab?
great looking doggies, big thick fish! :D
2016: dogfish, pollack,

2015: whiting, coalfish, turbot, pollack, ballan wrasse, conger, thornback, short spined sea scorpion , common blenny ,

2014 : dogfish, garfish, launce, common blenny, cuckoo wrasse, flounder, pollack, thornback ray,

2013 species:(15) Whiting, Dogfish, Three Bearded Rockling, bull huss, poor cod,turbot, flounder,pollack, spotted ray, thornback ray, launce, corkwing wrasse, long spined sea scorpion, common blenny,mackerel,

2012 species: Thornback, bull huss, Dogfish, pollack, Mackerel, bass, flounder, turbot, conger,




Species 09:(23) Conger, Whiting, Bass, flounder, Dogfish, dab, corkwing wrasse, pollack, bull huss(8lb 10oz~PB) , thornback ray(8lb~PB), dragonet, ballan wrasse, Blenny, Mackeral,long spined sea scorpion,pouting, coalfish, launce, codling, poor cod, starry smoothhound, 5 bearded rockling, shore rockling..
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Re: clifden bay co galway 10 may 2009

#3 Post by The Austrian »

spindlefist wrote:is it a spiny spider crab?

8) spot on, here more info: http://www.glaucus.org.uk/spider.htm
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Re: clifden bay co galway 10 may 2009

#4 Post by boycie89 »

all crab walk sideways !! :roll: :roll:
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#5 Post by d.kane62 »

hi gerry ,least ye got few fish for your effort .wat!!! no ray ,you giving them a chance this year
be down friday might give that mark a shot cheers damian
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#6 Post by Al and Jordan »

lovely pics of the dogs man and bloody strange crab :? :? :? :? :? do you think he walked all the way over from sellafield :shock: :shock: :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: clifden bay co galway 10 may 2009

#7 Post by gfkelly1969 »

spindlefist wrote:is it a spiny spider crab?
great looking doggies, big thick fish! :D

The Austrian wrote:
spindlefist wrote:is it a spiny spider crab?

8) spot on, here more info: http://www.glaucus.org.uk/spider.htm

thanks for the information,never seen a spiny spider crab before,nice to catch some thing new :D even if its only a crab :roll:
boycie89 wrote:all crab walk sideways !! :roll: :roll:

not all them http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/evah01/crabs.htm
most of the crabs i have seen walk more forward then side ways with their claws in the air when aggressive this lad didn't
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#8 Post by gfkelly1969 »

d.kane62 wrote:hi gerry ,least ye got few fish for your effort .wat!!! no ray ,you giving them a chance this year
be down Friday might give that mark a shot cheers damian

might even get out myself on Friday to try that mark,high tide is at 22.08 best time to try for a ray is between 17.00 and 21.00
taking a break from the rays,got very tired last year from reeling in so many last year :lol: :lol:
alandjordan wrote:lovely pics of the dogs man and bloody strange crab :? :? :? :? :? do you think he walked all the way over from sellafield :shock: :shock: :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

i did think the crab was from sellafield it was the strangest crab i ever seen,the dogs were a bit smaller then normal but put up a great fight even one of them managed to wrap around my hand while unhooking it,took a layer of skin off :cry: :cry: still was happy with the days fishing
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Re: clifden bay co galway 10 may 2009

#9 Post by round_ourway »

its like something outa alien lol. strangest crab i have ever seen. nice session pal well done
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