Co. Limerick, 24-sep-2006

[Donagh]

People:Sean365 and me

Duration: From 11:30 till 3:30

Tide: Spring Low 1:30

Weather: Easterly with bright sunshine and gin clear water (hardly ideal)

Bait:Fish

Rigs:Pulleys

Results: 3 pup tope and 2 ray over 3lbs

Catch and Release:: Yes



Report:Little or no tide on the ebb which produced the tope and as many similiar bites along with a bite on my rod that tangled my rig into a right knot that could only of been an small eel which is one bite I was glad to miss. WHen the tide turned a savage tide run and no bites until sean had a ray followed by another ray bite. Tide quietened down followed by another tide run and a bite on my rod which gave another small ray that went ballistic in the tide.

Talking to other anglers theres alot of pup tope being caught in the Estuary with the outside chance of a larger one.

Donagh

[bigkev]

What mystifies me about the number of small tope showing here is the apparent absence of females in the estuary.
We really should be seeing some from the boat in the estuary, but despite catching quite a lot of tope this summer, and indeed last, they have been exclusively male fish

Chatting to some other small boat skippers on the estuary, they too have taken quite a few pup tope.

Where are their mamas?

Kev

[Liamo]

That's interesting about all the male tope, noticed an unusually large number of our tope this year were males and some big ones. Females were very scarce...

Liam