Puca-shannon estuary sat 15 july

[bigkev]

Decided to spend the day targeting conger, tope and bass.
Ran across the estuary to pick up some mackerel for bait at littor strand, and there they were , gone!
Had to trek out to loop head and back, and as a result just missed low water at moneypoint, for the conger
With a bit of tide pushing, and using Rob McLeans advice on this mark, a flapper was launched at the pier structure.Before I got the rod into the rod holder,the rod was nearly ripped out of my hand and I muscled into a seriously large conger. After a short fight on a 20lb class rod with 30lb braid, I was unceremoniously broken. 30lb braid and it wasnt enough.
Retackiling up then produced a number of conger to 16lbs, but no more big uns'
No bass though, strange!
With the tide then really starting to push , we motored back to Littor strand and anchored our normal tope mark. Blazing sunshine seemed to put the tope off . No runs in 3 hours.
A last gasp decision to repostion in 90 feet of water saw us get three fish, with the largest a superb male fish of 42lbs
Some huss to 8lbs and a few pouting rounded up a challenging day
Great day out
Kev