gurteen and spiddal, Co. galway, 4/1/04.

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gurteen and spiddal, Co. galway, 4/1/04.

#1 Post by fishinmidget »

People:Me and Donal

Duration:11:00

Tide:i havent a clue.....

Weather:warm, windy, dry..........

Bait:mack and squid.

Rigs:all.

Results:conger, coalie, pout.

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Report:well, started at gurteen and got nothing then got lost on the way to spiddal, finally got there and promptly lost a conger....then landed one esitimated 25lb+ :shock: :shock: :D . then donal got one around the 8lb mark. then i got the coalie shortly followed by a couple of pout :D .
after that it all went quiet until when we was packing up i got another conger around the 10-12lb mark.

A very good start to 2007! :D :D .
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#2 Post by Drew »

Well Done Alex, Top Notch! 8)
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#3 Post by fishinmidget »

thnxs drew....

Oh yeah......i was using the carbon metal for the congers and a slosh x 20 and would reccomend that set up to anyone.....took even the big boy in its stride 8) .
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#4 Post by toaddi33 »

nice conger!! :D
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#5 Post by jonny gilbert »

well done on the conger hopefully i will get my first conger of the year or fish of the year 2mo nite
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#6 Post by donal »

i was suprised to see conger there at this time of year hope thats a good sing for the next year
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#7 Post by corbyeire »

was the coalie at much distance?
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#8 Post by fishinmidget »

right under my feet on a small float set so the bait was 7' deep.

Happy now crow :evil: :evil: :evil: :x
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#9 Post by stevecrow74 »

fishinmidget wrote:right under my feet on a deep(7') float.


my god thats a big float you used :lol: :lol: :lol: how on earth did you cast that.. or did you just throw it in.. :twisted: :twisted:
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