clare dragoon, carrigaholt, 12/09/09

[jw]

People: romofa, jw, eamonn, adrian, helmut and paul

Duration: 9-5

Tide: neaps

Weather: summer at last

Bait: mackerel

Rigs: shad, eels, devil rigs and flowing traces

Results: scad, mackerel, pollack, coalie, squid (tentacle only), cuckoo, red gurnard, whiting, pouting, ling, dogs and huss

Report: Fishing for pollack is like rolling a ball of string at a cat and hoping it will pounce, except you
don't usually fillet the cat and eat it for diner the next day. On our first drift over the reefs 5 miles west
of loop head fine pollack up to 8lbs were grabbing the lures every drop, the next time over the same ground
none of them would touch the lure, why is this?

[jw]

The autumn shoals of scad and squid have started to show
up close to loop head, also
a lot of big baitballs with
associated sea bird activity out in the deep water.

[doggie3131]

mabye ye just cleaned out all the pollock on the first drift nice fishing lads and a beautiful day for it!

[The Austrian]

nice fishing there lads, summer at last is well true

On our first drift over the reefs 5 miles west
of loop head fine pollack up to 8lbs were grabbing the lures every drop, the next time over the same ground
none of them would touch the lure, why is this?

Maybe you have attracted a big predator on your first drift and the leftover Pollock didn't want to take any chances and went for a hiding? Was there any big fish visible on the sonar? Porbeagles sometimes hide directly under the hull, so they cannot be detected on the fishfinder, them cheeky bu**ers

[gfkelly1969]

nice huss,well done lads