clare dragoon carrigaholt 23/5/10

[jw]

People: brian duggan, bassmania conger jw, plus 3 more

Duration: 900-1800

Tide: not much

Weather: superb

Bait: mackerel

Rigs: hookai, devils, gilling, shadding

Results: pollack, coalie, ling, whiting, haddock, poor cod, pouting, red gurnard

Report: at loop head there are huge shoals of small coalie making it
impossible to target wrasse or any other species, many of the fish caught today
were stuffed to the gills with 1.5" sandeel

[jw]

the pollack were in awkward mood, somtimes we drifted for 20 minutes
using all the techniques well known to work on 8 rods without a bite,
then they would come of the feed again and all the rods hooped over.
some nice haddock 3-4lbs are about as well

[twinkle]

some fine fish there. id say the crack was even better. and on the hottest day so far this year what more could a body ask for .well done lads

[Conger]

This was myself and Bassmanias first real boat fishing trip and what a day we had, when we arrived at the pier we met Brian and John and had a quick chat about the day ahead. As we set off you could not ask for better weather, the crack on the boat was great. After this trip i found muscles where i never knew i had muscles with hauling some of the fish up, definately will be trying this again, big thank you to Brian Duggan and J W off the site for the help and advice.

Regards

Seamus

[The Austrian]

nice report and good fishing lads, I'm fully with you there Seamus in relation to unknown muscles painfully appearing, not sure if the term 'wreck fishing' relates to the location or the crew sometimes John, your cutting board looks slightly unhygienic at this stage , I know, the memories, the memories...

[Bassmania]

Following on from Seamus' comments it was a great days fishing. If you were gauranteed yesterdays weather more often, I'd give this boat fishing a chance.

It's great to meet some people from the forum and thanks to John, Brian and the others for their help. Boat fishing is a different tecnique but an experience to be tried.

The Clare Dragoon and the owner (Luke) have the set up for these trips and for any newbies considering it, Seamus and I will go out again this summer and would have no problem going out on Luke's boat.

Will be Barbe'n some of the fish we caught later on, reaping the rewards for all the aches and pains I have from bringing all those fish to the surface

[Conger]

Oh lads, cooked up some ling, pollock and whiting this evening on the barbeque, had never tasted Ling before and i have to say i will be going for Ling again, all fish were absolutely gorgeous with even my 10 year old who wouldn't even eat a fish finger before hoovering it up