WEED WATCH - Galway, Mayo, Sligo & Donegal (The North West)

[MAC]

I know this is a vast area of coastline guys. I don't want too many stickies day 1. As it grows I will split the areas out if required.

Let's try to help each other out with this one!

If you are fishing an area that is full of weed or clean please post here. We are not looking for the mark you are fishing, but if you wan't to include it, please feel free. A General area like North Wexford or East Cork will be perfect. I am hoping that these stickies will become and invaluable tool for guys going fishing. For the guys not luckly enough to live close to their favourite beach this could be priceless. It takes a lot of effort to get the tackle ready, Sort the bait and then the drive to your favoutire mark only to find it unfishable due to weed. You log onto SAI the next day and find out that an area 20 mins was fine. How many sessions have been ruined this way!

Let's try get some up to date info on these threads to help guys plan a trip.

[doggie3131]

fished mulranney yesterday,totally weed free,just a bunch of tourists that were the problem,"what you catching" being the common question!...FISH being the answer!

[saving private brian]

enniscrone is full of that green and red type weed,,,horibble stuff

[corbyeire]

south facing beaches in the bay had a nice bit of weed on them yesterday in galway

[yorkshire man]

nothing much round south sligo yesterday

Cheers
mike

[sirfranny]

ballyliffen in inishowen was clear yesterday

[grady]

spinning fishing isn't easy on streedagh area good bit of weeds at high tide

[bigbadtom]

Buncranna was pretty clear yesterday.

[Flic]

Galway bay reniville sailclub area swamped with the stuff

[julianconneely]

south Galway bay, channel between NewQuay and Aughinish...after the tide turned and started flowing huge lumps of seaweed every cast, I had to pack it in. It was fine half hour before low tide and half hour after

[saving private brian]

16-08-2011,,enniscrone is full of that red and green weed.hasnt left it at all this year

[HOLYMACKEREL]

pollan bay was show signs of qute a lot of weed today but fishable away to the left side of the shore.

[HOLYMACKEREL]

LEENAN BAY:clear of weed today as was BINNION BAY

[FisherKing]

A bit of floating weed about north Sligo but nothing to bad!!!

[crabby]

lots of weed at the peer near Ballynacourty in between clarinbridge and oranmore last night at high tide. Almost every cast resulted in a sea weed snag.

[Tanglerat]

No weed in North Fanad area yesterday.

[eskimo]

tons of weed around killala bay,only managed 2 casts on cbi beach ross,that was thursday

[lacustris]

23rd September
Sligo: Raghly and next three beaches to North: All westerly shores large banks of loose kelp close in and general detritus
further out.
Strandhill: A lot of loose kelp and smaller weed......not fishable.

[corbyeire]

lots of weed on enniscrone on saturday - huge rafts to the west of the stream

[corbyeire]

south and south east facing beaches on north side of galway bay well covered in weed yesterday