***10 species*** 09.08.09 Donegal rock mark

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***10 species*** 09.08.09 Donegal rock mark

#1 Post by last cast lad »

People:me and mick

Duration:6.00pm to midnight

Tide:high at 9pm

Weather:warm and mild, flat sea

Rigs:everything we had, and then some

Results:me; 1 Tub gurnard, 5 Dogfish, 2 Coalfish, 1 Pollack, 1 Dab, 1 Wrasse, 1 Pouting, 1 congor eel.
Mick; 1 Thornback Ray, 1 Tub Gurnard, 1 Coalfish, 2 Plaice, 1 Flounder, 3 Dab, 4 Dogfish




Report:This was a trip to seek out a few new species this year but we never expected such a number :!: gurnard and plaice were on the wishlist, Mick was the first to hit the jack pot with the first plaice and then I managed a lovely Tub Gurnard, I'd caught red gurnards before but these tubs really are pretty with the blue edges to their (pectoral?) fins :D :D
At this point we thought great mission accomplished and could have gone home quite happy but we then managed to add Dab to our species list, I now have 20 this year so far :lol: :lol:
as the tide hit high things went quiet for about 30 min giving mick a chance to enjoy his flask of coffe but then all rods went mad again and we were constantly pulling in fish and baiting up, so much for a relaxing evenings fishing, it was great :!: :!: at times we couln't even get one rod baited again before the other was hopping off the stand. Those flat fish really do give a good bite from deep water compared to on the beach :!:
To finish the evening with a conger from the deep dark depths and give a combined species count for the evening of 10 really was satisfying :!: :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Re: ***10 species*** 09.08.09 Donegal rock mark

#2 Post by eyesreilly »

Well done lads, great fishing. Nice to have one of those busy sessions where you even forget to eat :wink:
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: ***10 species*** 09.08.09 Donegal rock mark

#3 Post by captaink »

I knew we should have gone to Donegal. That's a great session. Our last visit to Donegal bay, was a crackin' day. We were torn between Donegal and trying out the Barmouth, and we obviously chose the wrong one!!! Well done lads, Al
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Re: ***10 species*** 09.08.09 Donegal rock mark

#4 Post by McGett »

Well done dude..Would love a day like that myself..Just curious as to what mark u where fishing of, am from donegal town myself and could use an eventful day of actually catching stuff!!

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Re: ***10 species*** 09.08.09 Donegal rock mark

#5 Post by dfella25 »

Nice session lads well done The Tub's are deadly fish.

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