rocks, furbo beach, co. galway 20/06/2009

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rocks, furbo beach, co. galway 20/06/2009

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Duration: 13:00-15:00

Tide: HT at 14:00

Weather: sunshine little breezy

Bait: hardback crab

Rigs: simple sliding float to size 1.0 hook

Results: 1 Wrasse :)




Report: I'm completely clueless when it comes to sea fishing, done plenty of freshwater fishing in me day though, just moved to new home in galway city so decided a couple of months ago to get into sea fishing. Bought a sea angling book and thanks to this excellent website decided that my best bet to catch something from the shore would be to target wrasse, got some small hardback crabs at the beach on friday and headed out towards furbo beach on saturday, anyhoo arrived at 13:00 set up and on me second cast landed this wrasse below, I couldnt believe the fight out of him better then any freshwater fish ive ever caught, he rammed himself between two rocks took me ten minutes to get him out!! landed him and delighted with my first wrasse thought this was gonna be easy, stayed for another 2 hrs missed 2 more strong takes, i think the hooks werent the best the second lad i hooked lodged himself and bent the hook straight trying to heave him out, theyre mustad size 1.0 any recomendations for a better hook would be welcome, i dont think theyre sharp enough either. I left at three delighted with my first quasi-organised sea shore fishing trip. Can anyone recommend any good shore wrasse marks around galway i cant wait for the next lash at them.

Anyhow this is my first post so pardon my ramblings. no idea what weight he was thats one of those lidl fishing boxes i'd say he was around 35cms long any guesses??

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Re: rocks, furbo beach, co. galway 20/06/2009

#2 Post by wilky83 »

Congrats on your first sea fish and a nice one too, oh and welcome to the site.
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Re: rocks, furbo beach, co. galway 20/06/2009

#3 Post by gfkelly1969 »

welcome to the site hunt4the and very good first report
nice wrasse,well done

there is a lot of galway lads on the site that i am sure will give you advice
now that you have got a wrasse you will have to target other species,silver strand can be good for flat fish,spiddle pier can be good for a lot of different species,if you want to target ray head out to clifden i know a pretty good spot i could show you

i will pm you another spot for wrasse between furbo and spiddle later when i draw up a map
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1 dogfish,2 whiting,3 flounder,4 two spot goby,5 mackerel,6 pollack,7 common blenny,8 European eel,9 butterfish,10 Deep-snouted pipefish,11 rock goby,12 poor cod,13 corkwing wrasse,14 coalfish,15 turbot,16 tompot blenny,17 dab,18 dragonet,19 shorerockling,20 thornback ray,21 three bearded rockling,22 sandeel,23 grey gurnard,24 sea scorpion,25 scad,26 plaice,27 ballen wrasse,28 bullhuss,29 conger eel,30 blue shark,31 blonde ray,32 cod,33 pouting,34 topknot,35 Fifteen-spine Stickleback,36 mullet,37 Sand Goby,38 Montagu's Blenny,39 Three-spined Stickleback,40 goldshinny wrasse,41 painted goby,42 five bearded rockling,43 Sand-Smelt,44 Small-headed Clingfish ,45 sole

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Re: rocks, furbo beach, co. galway 20/06/2009

#4 Post by saltydog »

Congrats on the Wrasse 8) There's a few of us that head out regularly your more than welcome to join us for a session.... drop me a PM (private message) when your heading out next i'll join you if i'm free...
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#5 Post by shamoo0804 »

Welldone on the wrasse, at that length I'd say 3lb or so.

A great fighting fish, and in my opinion not enough people target them.
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Re: rocks, furbo beach, co. galway 20/06/2009

#6 Post by youngrod »

congrats on your first sea fish
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Re: rocks, furbo beach, co. galway 20/06/2009

#7 Post by hunt4the »

cheers lads,
thanks for your replies 8)
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Re: rocks, furbo beach, co. galway 20/06/2009

#8 Post by corbyeire »

thats a good fish - seems like we could do with some advice from yourself

if i knew wrasse of that size were to be had 10mins from galway i would be after them a lot more myself
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Re: rocks, furbo beach, co. galway 20/06/2009

#9 Post by gfkelly1969 »

sent you a pm hunt4the
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1 dogfish,2 whiting,3 flounder,4 two spot goby,5 mackerel,6 pollack,7 common blenny,8 European eel,9 butterfish,10 Deep-snouted pipefish,11 rock goby,12 poor cod,13 corkwing wrasse,14 coalfish,15 turbot,16 tompot blenny,17 dab,18 dragonet,19 shorerockling,20 thornback ray,21 three bearded rockling,22 sandeel,23 grey gurnard,24 sea scorpion,25 scad,26 plaice,27 ballen wrasse,28 bullhuss,29 conger eel,30 blue shark,31 blonde ray,32 cod,33 pouting,34 topknot,35 Fifteen-spine Stickleback,36 mullet,37 Sand Goby,38 Montagu's Blenny,39 Three-spined Stickleback,40 goldshinny wrasse,41 painted goby,42 five bearded rockling,43 Sand-Smelt,44 Small-headed Clingfish ,45 sole

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