raymonds from the rocks, donegal 29.12.10

[last cast lad]

People:me, mark, mick,

Duration:12.00- 3.00pm

Tide:rising to top

Weather:mild southerly breeze

Bait:mackeral, bluey, squid

Rigs:pulley, flapper

Results:me; 3 Raymonds, 1 shortspined sea scorpian. mick; 2 Raymonds




Report: The snow's finally gone so took a quick run down to the rocks for a quick afternoon session with my brother mark home for holidays along with mick. Got set up for what in some ways was a quite quiet session but very rewarding non the less After about an hour of nothing not even bait robbing crabs I pulled in my 3.0 thornback pulley rig to find what I now believe to be a short spined sea scorpian a new species is always good, it pushed the measure to 20cm (although mick might try to suggest it was closer to 19 ) not sure if thats a good or bad sizr for these This was then followed
by a 3lb thornie on my scratching rig, sometimes the fish just seem to make fools of us
I had another thornie and then back to nothingness for over another hour till we decided to pull the pin, mick pulled in his two rods to find a ray had been resting on the end of each I then pulled in my pulley rig 3.0 rig with the tiniest little ray about 25 cm long not even hooked but hanging onto the bait.

[junior conger]

nice ray

[chuckaroo]

nice looking fish, all really nicely coloured. not a bad wee 'quite quiet' session in my book..
still need to get my first raymond myself but i got a sea scorpion/bullhead in the summer - theres a photo of it in my gallery if you fancy takin a look. it was closer to 25cm - quite a big one i think.
cheers

[red]

thats a crackin pic of the ray on the grass.

whats up with the little crab in the pics? never seen one that colour before! have ye a run off from sellafield nearby?

[roger de dodger]

great stuff ,lets face it a few hours outside breathing fresh air was all you where after yea got a few fish aswell

[lincolnedd]

good to see the raymonds still about Donegal so late in the year well done.

[immunecfg]

Nice rays.

Did you find the crab in with a bucket of rusty nails??

[last cast lad]

Just to answer, the scorpian fish coughed up the little red crab, although I would like to see how a thornie could mutat if there was some sort of nuclear spill, someone give homer a ring

[Al]

Nice fishing lads,

I think I know that mark in the first Pic!

[cathalger]

Great rays and nice size of a sea scorpion, did that wee crab come out of the scorpions stomach?

Edit, Sorry, just read the post above, youve already answeerd my question there.

[polaris]

nice fishing lads,,,and good pics,,well done,,,,,,

[bigbadtom]

Nice wee session there. Good to see the rays are still about. Well done.

[tight lines]

any session were you catch a ray is good in my book well done

[Bryan1]

Nice fishing lads,

I think I know that mark in the first Pic!

so do i lol.

[scrob]

Really cool markings on that ray on the grass! Congrats!

[Al and Jordan]

great fishing lads you got more thornies in that one session than i got for all of 2010 . i think the stomach acids were working on that carb in the sea scorpions belly . i got a cod last year just over a pound which i normally would'nt have thought of keeping. but the wee guy went belly up on the return so i foul hooked him to keep for a fish finger. when i gutted him i cut the stomach open to see what he had been eating and his belly was full of wee tiny brown crabs which had went that red colour in different stages of digestion