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cork harbour small boat fishing

#1 Post by SKIP »

heading down to cork harbour this weekend fishing out of cobh on small boat, just wondering what type of species might i encounter and what baits i should bring, any info would be great lads.
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Inside Roches Point: mackerel, conger, dogfish, huss, codling, whiting, pollack, poor cod, bass, plaice, dabs, flounder, launce, blonde and thornback ray, tub gurnard

Outside: you can add haddock, red gurnard, grey gurnard, ling, cuckoo and ballan wrasse,coalfish and pouting with bigger cod, pollack and whiting

Baits: plenty of mackerel inside and outside the harbour bring everything else except the maddies :lol: no small fish down this way. :lol: :lol:
Specimen Fish 2024: Shore Rockling (3) 36cm, 34cm, 31cm; Thick Lipped Mullet (2) 58cm, 57cm; Smooth Hound (1) 109cm; Sting Ray (1)125cm; Ballan Wrasse (1) 48cm ; Corkwing Wrasse (1) 24.8cm. Golden Grey Mullet (2) 43cm, 1.8lb; 40.6cm, 1.55lb;
Total species boat/shore: 45
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Flounder 46cm; Spurdog 120cm; Stingray 91cm; Smooth Hound 114cm; 103.5cm; 104cm
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Thanks Donal sounds the bizz, kind of heard it can be scratchy but i suppose knowing where to fish is the key to good catches
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kind of heard it can be scratchy but i suppose knowing where to fish is the key to good catches
That's true Skip.
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I am indeed Jim, 20 of us heading down to the Bellavista for the weekend. Fingers crossed weather and fishing is good.
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#6 Post by JimC »

Good stuff.
Friday is looking crap. Hopefully Sat will be better. You'll get the low down on the fishing at the Bella Vista.

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