SAI tope/blue shark meet, carrigaholt 18/19-07-09

[jw]

People: boycie, brian, tommy, jd and jw

Duration: two days

Tide: high at 3pm

Weather: fine, a bit breezy for a while

Bait: mackerel, rag and live baiting with fulmars

Rigs: tope traces, blue shark traces and reef rigs

Results: mackerel, launce, haddock, whiting, pouting, red gurnard, ballans, cuckoos, pollack, dogs, tope and a blue shark around 173 pounds weight

Report: eight tope were caught at the beal bar, a few in the high 30s

[jw]

the slick was set at 10am for the sharks, boycie caught some nice haddock and whiting

[jw]

the only shark run was a nice female around 173lbs ( )
which came at 2:30 just before lines up

[brian perry]

well done lads thats a nice shark ,great fishing

[oneillphil]

That must be a specimen whiting from Boycie ?

[The Austrian]

well done on the sharks lads, that's some whiting there Andy

[Tomaszek]

Congratulations John. Circe hooks worked well!

[Tony Fella]

Cracking fish lads thats a nice blue shark

[MAC]

Great fishing lads.... Great to see you managed a Blue as well.

[jd]

I enjoyed that, welll done to JW on his blue. I had two tope on the Beal, one nice one of 36/37 lbs or so. Some nice whiting and I dropped a haddock at the side of the boat
We had to give Luke's brother a tow from near Kilbaha, the Fenit Life boat had brought him that far after his engine overheated. Those lifeboats can moooove it...!

I had mentioned to Boycie how much bigger the swells are on the west coast, and how big waves can appear out of nowhere on the west coast. Found out this morning that another person had drowned near kilkee.

Some photos of the trip later..

[mickmick]

That's a great shark! Well done!

[jack01986]

Nice shark have been getting a craving to try for them at some stage.

[JOHN1]

great fishing lads,

congrats on the blue john fantastic fish nice whiting and haddock boycie im sure the fillets went down well

[jw]

thanks, i was spoofing a bit about the weight because everybody else does
i reckon about the size of two good tope, 80lb

I experimented making the rubbing leader out of 200lb fluoro. At the end of the
struggle the shark bit at the rubbing leader as most do, the skipper immediately
released the tension on it and the bite only went half way through it.... so its
200lb wire wrap leader for me from now on

[JOHN1]

nothing wrong with an odd spoof now and again john but i have to be honest i dont spoof spoof myself .
but even spoofing about the shark you caught its still a mighty fish at a measly 80 or 90lb.

now all spoofing aside what weight was the whiting that boycie caught before he gets a chance to spoof about it, id hate to think of him coming up with something like 7lb

[thebigman]

Cracking session, you can see where the blue part of the name comes from. I'd have been happy with the whiting

[jd]

Some more photos

[jd]

and towing Luke's brother in..

[septicsac]

Fine Blue there , looks like ye had a ball

[PMU]

nice blue,JD, what rod and line have you on the avet.
what depth was the bait set when it took?
Pat