West waterford tope or smoothhound 16/6

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#1 Post by **seanie35** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:17 am

Went out tonite hoping for a much needed bass fix, got to the mark 8.30pm water was well coloured after the gales of the last 2 days with the wind now blowing in the opposite direction it was taking the sting out of the surf, anyways straight into a doggie fest normally this mark throws up a few doggies but never this many mustve had 10 before i got a nice huss about 5lb a first for me here.. Dusk came and went no bass peelers running low, the tide started pushing back in another lad i was fishing with decided to move 300 yards up the beach so i put about 4 peelers on a 4/0 last throw of the dice before home. Got a really strong knock missed it reeled it in tidied up the bait and cast again same spot about 60yards out within minutes massive knock reeled into it big bass on i thought/ hoped after a good struggle got it in was fairly shocked to see it, thought myself it was a tope because of the see - through snout and overly large fins and length so took a run up the beach to the other lad whose a very accomplished fisherman and he confirmed it as a tope. Took about 10 photos of it but they generally turned out crap reckon it weighted in about 7-8lb so still a baby but im well happy dont think i will hooking one of them to often not in west waterford anyways

#2 Post by **razor2** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:43 am

Great stuff Seanie nice one

#3 Post by **donal murphy** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:12 am

looks like a smooth hound to me

#4 Post by **eoghanb** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:57 am

Maybe you've found a south coast smoothie spot?

#5 Post by **seanie35** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:03 am

Hopefully eoghan, donal open to that so ive changed the title. I will post up some of the other pics See if theres a decisive image

#6 Post by **seanie35** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:08 am

Heres some

#7 Post by **yappo** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:41 am

When you unhooked it did it have teeth? then tope, hounds have crushing pads.

Yappo

#8 Post by **seanie35** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:50 am

yappo wrote:When you unhooked it did it have teeth? then tope, hounds have crushing pads.

Yappo

Not sure i got abit excited and wasnt aware of that as an i.d feature

#9 Post by **lodore** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:04 am

Wow! Whether it's a tope or a smoothhound, it's a cracking result. Never heard of either in the west Waterford direction. If only they'd come en masse there'd be some good sport to be had, with one rod out for the bass, and the other out for the hounds ...

#10 Post by **keith** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:12 am

Its a smoothound well done, Jaysus the southcoast has it all now

#11 Post by **roger de dodger** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:40 am

looks like a hound its not got a pointy enough nose for a tope ,do you have a better pic of its tail as that s a dead givaway!

#12 Post by **Aurelien** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:53 am

definitely a nice hound. Well done

#13 Post by **seanie35** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:07 am

Last decent pic

#14 Post by **razor2** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:19 am

Well Seanie its definitely not a bass thats all i know what a great catch for down your way

#15 Post by **bigballs** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:10 pm

Any chance it could be a spurdog????

#16 Post by **mitch** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:49 pm

Looks like a hound to me sean

get back out there and get another one and
some better photos

#17 Post by **beachbuddy** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:02 pm

Lovely fishing Seanie.You're some man you disappear for weeks and then you appear with a report like that,the cheek of you

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Looks like a smoothie to me for what its worth.Would love to have seen the bend on your rod when you hooked up,oh and the huss ain't to be sniffed at either.Mad jealous here

Tight lines

#18 Post by **declan65** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:33 pm

Cracking fishing Sean

, no silver fellas but I'm sure you didn't care! Well done.

#19 Post by **Sparks43** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:53 pm

bigballs wrote:Any chance it could be a spurdog????

I was thinking it might be a gurnard

Nice fish very well done

#20 Post by **stevief54** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 8:32 pm

i think smooth hound sean well done

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