People: Gabbey, Shep, Drew
Duration: about 7.30pm - 11pm
Tide: Pushing
Weather: Lush!
Bait: Mackeral
Rigs: DDP, Feathers, Dangling Rigs, Float, Spinners
Results:
Dogfish, Pollack, Coalies, Shanny, Mackeral
Report:
It was set to be a pretty uneventful night, we'd had a few Pollack and Coalies, Gabbey had a Dog, and Shep had been Shanny bashing like a trooper, on the last cast we noticed a lot of fry on the surface, Some of it scattering as if it was being chased.
It was, 10 minutes later the water was boiling with fry, Mackeral were coming clean out of the water, and fry was being knocking at least 2 foot into the air by the savage fish ripping through the shoals and feeding hard. We fished spinners through the shoals on very light spinning gear... The takes were savage and the fish fought superbly.
Great end to the night...
Ballyhalbert Pier, Co Down, 26/07/11
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Ballyhalbert Pier, Co Down, 26/07/11
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Re: Ballyhalbert Pier, Co Down, 26/07/11
ive never seen mackerel hitting a shoal of fry like that before
would love to though, how many did you get in the end?
would love to though, how many did you get in the end?
2012 species list (In order of appearance), Pollock, Whiting, Colefish (New PB), Shore Rockling, Flounder (New PB), 5 Bearded Rockling (New Species), Dogfish, Pouting, Plaice, Dab, Lesser Sandeel (New Species), Cod (New PB), Long Spine Sea Scorpion, Ballan Wrasse, Corkwing Wrasse, Mackerel, Herring, Goldsinney Wrasse, Butterfish (New Species), Ling (PB), Halibut (New Species), Haddock (New Species), Red Fish (New Species), Wolffish (New Species), Rockcook Wrasse, Shanny, Poorcod, Conger
2011 species list (In order of appearance), Pollock(PB), Lumpfish (New Species), Whiting, Colefish, Codling(PB), Dab, Pouting, Shore Rockling, Conger (PB), Blenny, Corkwing Wrasse, Three Bearded Rockling (new Species), Lesser Spotted Dogfish, Ballan Wrasse, Plaice, LSSS, Poor Cod (new Species that i know of), Sand Smelt (new Species), Herring (new Species)
2011 species list (In order of appearance), Pollock(PB), Lumpfish (New Species), Whiting, Colefish, Codling(PB), Dab, Pouting, Shore Rockling, Conger (PB), Blenny, Corkwing Wrasse, Three Bearded Rockling (new Species), Lesser Spotted Dogfish, Ballan Wrasse, Plaice, LSSS, Poor Cod (new Species that i know of), Sand Smelt (new Species), Herring (new Species)
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Re: Ballyhalbert Pier, Co Down, 26/07/11
nice one drew. must have been quite a sight to see the macks shepherding the fry 
. love seeing stuff like that when your out fishing 
. love seeing stuff like that when your out fishing -
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Re: Ballyhalbert Pier, Co Down, 26/07/11
it was the same last week at duncranna with mackerel right out the water for the fry.
good fishing
good fishing
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