clare dragoon, carrigaholt, 2/11/2008

[jw]

People: Tommy, viper, Brian and jw

Duration: 0900-1700

Tide: lw at 1400

Weather: as fine as you could expect for the
west coast in november, light northery breeze

Bait: mackerel, rag

Rigs: gowan and bradshaw red devil rig, green achill raiders,
5 inch shad top red, bottom yellow,3.5 oz vertical jig, muppet rigs, mackerel feathers

Results: plenty of pollack around the 7lb mark, 3 or 4 hard fighting coalies around the 8lb size, two red gurnards a few ozs short of specimen size, 5 or 6 ling, several scad and a handful of pout and poor cod, we managed to pick up seven mackerel on the way out which did us for bait.

Report: at one stag tommy was winding in a pollack when something grabbed it zzzzzzzzzziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, wire traces and balloons quickly readied, but then we saw a fat seal on the surface
holding the pollack and laughing a us

[tomi]

Ufff- no shark caught, thank god Otherwise I would be really jealous
...only joke...
Nice mix of fish guys. Well done. Sea looks flat enough

[Viper]

Wasn't as flat as it looked...

[tomi]

Totally calm compare to previous trip...

[SeanP]

Definitely looks like better conditions than your last trip
Nice Gurnard you had there,
Do they normally get a few cod and whiting at this time of year up there We were out from Dingle on Sunday as well, it was very quiet, same time last year there were a good few about, think the water temps are down to last year though

[jw]

i forget to mention we got a plenty of big whiting. We didn't get a single cod but i think they
are around. the water temp was 11 degrees. At one stage i could not get a single pollack
gilling up from the bottom with either live rag or black jelly worm on long 20lb fluoro trace,
but by casting a red and yellow shad ahead of the boat, and when it was on the bottom
vertically below the boat, winding up very fast with a fixed spooled produced a take every cast

[Tomaszek]

That was a good session indeed. Sea was flat calm. And pretty good fun with a seal on 25lb rod

Many thanks to Viper for escorting me on my way back to Kilrush - thanks mate!