dusk to dawn 21 june

[gfkelly1969]

People:joe,rob,alvin,tom,kieran and myself

Duration:21:30 to 06:45

Tide:high at 2 am

Weather:dry and a light wind

Bait:mackerel,sandeel,squid,lures and feathers

Rigs:all kinds

Results:mackerel,dogs,huss,rockling,conger,gurnurd,pollack,ray,codling




Report:i was often thinking about fishing through the night so with the 21st being the shortest night and high tide at 2am i decided to go for it,i posted my idea online and 5 lads from clifden decided to join me
we were set up at the mark at 21:30,we were in to fish on the first cast,dogs,rays and codling started showing and tom had a lovely rockling

joes ray.jpg

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after 2hrs fishing kieran hooked in to something big,the fish took a lot of line and then went to ground,he had a bend on the rod for 30mins trying to get it to move,it started to move and took about 50m more line and went to ground again,then after 45 mins the hook pulled out of the fish and he landed a dog on the top hook
it only took over a hour to land a dogfish everyone thinks it may have been a skate on the bottom hook,2 fine skate were caught from a boat out in clifden bay in the last few weeks.one was 100lb and the second was 150lbs

he was well fit for a bit of grub and a coffee after that fight so it was time to throw a few burgers on the pan,nicest bit of grub i ever tasted

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we had a few euro in a pot for the longest fish and for the most species and as the light started to break most of us started casting lures and feathers to try for pollack and mackerel to add to the species list,everyone added both species,after awhile the place came alive when a big shoal of mackerel started to break the surface,we stocked up on a bit of bait
i also got a small gurnurd on a feather which surprised me

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when the mackerel moved out we all started to fish the bottom again and the rays started to show,it was none stop action with them as well
rob had 27 ray and alvin was close behind him with 25 ray and joe had 23
we were all getting tired after that so decided to call it a day

tom won the longest fish with his conger and i won the species hunt with 6 species,most of the other lads had 5 species so it was close
everyone was delighted with the session and are talking of doing it again next year

[ste c]

well done mate plenty of fish got anyways

[paul skelly]

Sounds like a great session , and I'd say it's only a mater of time before one of u lads land a skate iv heard of a lot of unstoppable fish been hooked down that way

[gitsea M]

great session gerry

[Determined Dan]

Great going lads. There's power in numbers. Good to hear it was successful session.

[Deleted User 3488]

Cracking session lads, top job.

[hurler01]

Well done Gerry.

[daveyboy]

Sounds like a great night, fair play

[gfkelly1969]

well done mate plenty of fish got anyways

thanks ste c

Sounds like a great session , and I'd say it's only a mater of time before one of u lads land a skate iv heard of a lot of unstoppable fish been hooked down that way

i hope to be the first to land one i am going to try the 2 locations that i know the skate hang around in,i have beefed up the gear as well,i will be putting out whole mackerel on 10/0 hooks to see what will happen

great session gerry

thanks gitsea m

Great going lads. There's power in numbers. Good to hear it was successful session.

thanks dan it was a very enjoyable session,good fishing,good food,good craic what more could a lad ask for

Cracking session lads, top job.

thanks paddy

Well done Gerry.

thanks hurler01

Sounds like a great night, fair play

thanks daveyboy every one enjoyed it

[Fish magnet]

Great Results Gerry