clifden bay co galway 08 august 2009

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gfkelly1969
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clifden bay co galway 08 august 2009

#1 Post by gfkelly1969 »

People:myself

Duration:17:00 to 22:30

Tide:high 19:28 5m

Weather:dry and light wind from the west

Bait:sand eel,lug,limpets,sprats,feathers

Rigs:3 hook mackerel feathers,float rig

Results:1 dog fish,9 mackerel,10 pollack




Report:tried a spot that i met corbyeire and rolly at last monday first had a dog on sand eel rebaited and 10 mins later had 2 mackerel to the sand eel then changed to feathers and had 6 mackerel and 5 pollack,all the pollack were small,about 1lb weight
decided to move back to another pollack rock and first cast had a full string of mackerel after that the mackerel stopped but the pollack kept biteing,had 5 more pollack the biggest about 2lbs

first time this year i had a session as good as this,pity it had to come and half the year over :roll:

still happy to see the mackerel in,time to stock up the fridge :D
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lifetime species fishing and rock pool
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: clifden bay co galway 08 august 2009

#2 Post by FisherKing »

Very good session alot of action well done the Pollack give a good fight great fun to catch hope you get some more sessions like that.
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Re: clifden bay co galway 08 august 2009

#3 Post by asarmstrong »

nice fishing lads :) .where abouts in clifden bay were u.any ray turned up on the sky road this year?
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Re: clifden bay co galway 08 august 2009

#4 Post by hunt4the »

great session!! im still on species number 1 with wrasse :P
species 2009 (1): Ballan Wrasse
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Re: clifden bay co galway 08 august 2009

#5 Post by doggie3131 »

nice fishing gf,glad to see the mackys in up there too :D :D
species 2012.........(12)seatrout,bass,turbot,flounder,brill,lsd,coalie,shore rockling,pollock,pout,poor cod,gray gurnard

species 2011 (20) flounder,whiting,poor cod,5 beard rockling,lsd.coalie,thornie,three bearded rockling,shore rockling.seatrout.turbot,plaice,brill,pollock,ballen wrasse.huss,pout,cookoo wrasse,corking wrasse,dab.

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Re: clifden bay co galway 08 august 2009

#6 Post by gfkelly1969 »

FisherKing wrote:Very good session alot of action well done the Pollack give a good fight great fun to catch hope you get some more sessions like that.
great fighters all right,i love catching them
doggie3131 wrote:nice fishing gf,glad to see the mackys in up there too :D :D
first time i caught that many this year,i didn't see any big shoal around
asarmstrong wrote:nice fishing lads :) .where abouts in clifden bay were u.any ray turned up on the sky road this year?
south side of the bay,plenty of ray on the sky road but I don't fish for them too often now because I am sick of catching them now :lol:
hunt4the wrote:great session!! im still on species number 1 with wrasse :P
if you want to get a second species head out to clifden and i will get you hooked in to a ray and maybe you can you can teach me how to get a wrasse :lol:
lifetime species fishing and rock pool
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: clifden bay co galway 08 august 2009

#7 Post by Fentster »

Great session, well done, still to get a mack myself this year :roll:
2009 Shore/Boat Species [b](First year)![/b] - [size=85]Whiting, Pouting, Pollack, Ballan Wrasse, Corkwing Wrasse, Poor Cod, Sea Bass, Mackeral, Codling, Tub Gurnard, Dogfish[/size]

2010 Shore/Boat Species- Codling, Coalfish, Dogfish, Pollack, Mackerel, Whiting, Dab

2011 Shore/Boat/Kayak- Dogfish, Thornback Ray, Mackerel, Pollack, Ling, Coalfish, Spurdog, Tope, Red Gurnard, Sand eel, Pouting, Codling,
[i][color=#4000BF]All the gear and no idea.....[/color][/i]


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