Disappointing Dunmore East

[seanyroche]

Vessel: Danny Buoy

Crew:Myself and ilyich

Duration:08:00 - 17:00hrs

Tide:All kinds

Weather:Sunny, little wind, flat calm max 1ft waves

Bait:Feathers, leadheads, Fresh mackerel

Rigs:Feathers, conger, shark rigs

Results:continuous flow of mackerel and some launce

I finally got the boat out yesterday at around 08:00 from the slip at Dunmore. The water was flat apart from a little wave that came in and pulled the boat sideways on the trailer and scraped the paint off one of the roller brackets .

The first few hours were spent a mile or two off shore feathering in 30-40m of water the mackerel were mainly a very poor size about 6 inch being the usual with about 1 in 6 being 12inches. Both of us were still trying to find our sea legs, has anyone got any tips for when you start to feel sea sick?

We had half filled the box with mackerel and we decided to go out a bit further and try for the blue sharks which Dunmore seem to be famous for. We ended up 8.5miles out at around 1pm set up the rubby dubby and got the baits (1 live and one dead) in the water (55m deep).

By now the sickness was well gone for me but ilyich had a sleep. Whilst waiting for a shark we tried for conger, Pollock or cod on the bottom with one rod and the feathered again at all levels of the water again only producing small mackerel I tried bigger hook sizes and sand eel type lead heads but still nothing was interested.

After 2hrs drifting in total peace and quite I heard something snorting and thought it was ilyich but it was 3 dolphins breaching nearby which was pretty amazing to see. Another 2 hours passed without a bite, from any baited rod before we had to call it a day and head for home.

The bluecharts worked perfectly on the garmin nuvi car sat nav. We stopped about 400m off the shore and gave the feathers another go this time we got a few good sized mackerel and some big sand eels.

Back on the trailer around 5pm this time without any problems it winched on perfectly.

Over all it was a good day out, but we can’t understand how we how we didn’t catch any other species, was it the dolphins or the area we fished? We covered about 5 miles during our days fishing. The area covered was from Dunmore to the following coordinates (N 52º02.629’ W007º05.778’) which is where we ended up after drifting back towards shore.

So if anyone has fished these grounds, have any suggestions as to why this area contained so few fish or has some other areas where more species would be available please let me know.

Sean

[steyrman]

hi i was also out yesterday had a great days fishing east of you i have fished a few times for sharks out of tramore i will pm you a decent mark that has produced a few sharks and decent whiting on the drift i would say you were not out far enough on your mark 200 ft of water or more works most of the time i go deeper and drift back to land if i can depending on drift hope this helps

[seanyroche]

hi i was also out yesterday had a great days fishing east of you i have fished a few times for sharks out of tramore i will pm you a decent mark that has produced a few sharks and decent whiting on the drift i would say you were not out far enough on your mark 200 ft of water or more works most of the time i go deeper and drift back to land if i can depending on drift hope this helps

That would be great, any help to put me on some fish would be very welcome. We still had a good day out in the boat though

[ltdslipdiff]

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but the auld man + I were out on the water for the 1st time this year last Wednesday on a falling tide about two mile off Hook having launched in Dunmore. Fished with some Hokai and some feathers. Caught a small pollack which we used to bait hooks- and that was all we caught !!!! Very disappointed. The conditions were flat calm and spotted a few dolphins too ! haven't got a GPS but its a pending purchase any day now ! even the Fishfinder wasn't showing any fish about

I'd love any pointers anyone may have, including where to buy a reasonably priced GPS !

Fred

[screeming reels]

hi lads,
few points , its way to early for sharks, ( though many species are putting in an early appearance) normally the sharks will appear from late june to october.
For general fishing the best place to go is the reefs 3 miles east of hook head, hence they are called the 3 mile rocks. they are shown on the charts but if you need the coord's i can pass them on. here you can expect, pollock on jellyworms, codling around the reefs on baited pink flashers or any pink hokkai rigs, pouting, ballen wrasse and cuckoo wrasse coalfish and if anchoured a chance of conger.
dunmore has some great fishing but like all fishing it can be very finnicky with one type of feathers working one day and another colour another day.
Hope that helps
regards
screeming

[saving private brian]

well atleast you got plenty of bait anyway lol.............you were dead right to give the sharks ago,,,they are never far from those shoals of mackerel,,,,,,,,,might be a bit too early alright for the blues yet but they say the tope hit us from late april onwards

[ltdslipdiff]

Just back in from another trip off Dunmore.... Brought the boat down from Waterford City this morning on a falling tide picking up a crew member in Dunmore and headed for Hook. Conditions were perfect, making the trip from the city to Dunmore in just under an hour on moderate throttle. Headed for Hook crossing the tide line on the way. Given the calm conditions we pointed ESE and got to a depth of 80 odd feet and started fishing using a defrosted Herring on various feathers and Hokai. Caught a small pollack and a long-looking codling, pardon my ignorance not sure what it was...threw it back anyway. relocated a little closer to Hook head and threw anchor and had a cuppa. Got a small dogfish and I'm afraid that was all !! Headed in after yet another poor days fishing..... May post pictures if I can edit them to make the fish look bigger !!!!

[DaleB91]

The long looking cod thing could be a ling

[Shambo]

Try not to think on it as a poor days fishing, it's more a learning curve! You'll not be long hitting on marks and getting into some decent fishing! As Dale says a ling sounds about right. They make for some nice eating!

[twinkle]

you need to listen what the guys are telling you.screaming reels is a top angler and knows that area like the back of his hand .would sugest you pm him for a mark or two.and if you get in to trouble down there he will most likely be the one to rescue you as he flys the helicoper for the rescue service

[ltdslipdiff]

Cheers for that. I've often wondered who owned the nice boat out at Waterford Airport by the Rescue hangar, now I know !!! Hopefully I'll never have to meet him professionally !!! I realise it is a learning curve and its more about the getting out there at all that makes it for me anyway.

[dezzer]

that boat could belong to bass or nevskip,as screaming minds his pride and joy too much to leave it ,two other good local anglers and also members of the sar.......eddie.

[Angus]

Hi

I run a charter boat from Dunmore and i am out most weekends the boats called St Michael if you see me give me a call i will give you some marks or follow me round for a while

Angus

[ltdslipdiff]

Thanks Angus, I know your vessel, not sure if I'd keep up with her on the open sea
We've passed by a few times out there, you always seem to have a flock of gulls following you !

[twinkle]

where there's gulls there's anglers cleaning out big juicey codling