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Paul Harris
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Beara Peninsula

#1 Post by Paul Harris »

Date. Feb 6th
Time 1400 - 1800
Tide low at 1700
Bait Sandell and macky
Persons fishing - just me

First session of the year and tried a new mark that I kept looking at last year but never got round to fishing. Good depth and fairly clean bottom with only three rigs lost and as I was fishing two rods thats not bad.
Had an LSD on first cast while I was still baiting up second rod and than as usual never had a touch for 2 hours. Was thinking about giving up when rod with sandeel on bent round and resulted in a surprise thornie about 6 pounds. Followed by a huss of similar weight on the macky and then another thornie on the sandeel.
Pinched myself to make sure I was not dreaming when a good huss near double figures appeared followed by two LSD's.
Had to stop at the pub for some anasthetic to get over the shock.
Sorry no pics but really did not even think about taKing it, sure to blank next session when I have it with me!!!
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#2 Post by spindlefist »

Well done Paul, quite the way to start the year..
2016: dogfish, pollack,

2015: whiting, coalfish, turbot, pollack, ballan wrasse, conger, thornback, short spined sea scorpion , common blenny ,

2014 : dogfish, garfish, launce, common blenny, cuckoo wrasse, flounder, pollack, thornback ray,

2013 species:(15) Whiting, Dogfish, Three Bearded Rockling, bull huss, poor cod,turbot, flounder,pollack, spotted ray, thornback ray, launce, corkwing wrasse, long spined sea scorpion, common blenny,mackerel,

2012 species: Thornback, bull huss, Dogfish, pollack, Mackerel, bass, flounder, turbot, conger,




Species 09:(23) Conger, Whiting, Bass, flounder, Dogfish, dab, corkwing wrasse, pollack, bull huss(8lb 10oz~PB) , thornback ray(8lb~PB), dragonet, ballan wrasse, Blenny, Mackeral,long spined sea scorpion,pouting, coalfish, launce, codling, poor cod, starry smoothhound, 5 bearded rockling, shore rockling..
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#3 Post by hugo »

Top rate session Paul, I'd be pretty happy with one like that in September.... :)
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#4 Post by bigsod »

Nice its always the same when you forget your camera, I bought a new one a few months back and havnt caught anything realy worth photographing since I got it:lol:
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#5 Post by chrisfeeney30 »

well done! very nice!
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#6 Post by davetilly »

great stuf paul .we are heading down on the 18 of sept we will pop down before in aug for a recie for the kayaks talk soon dave tilly great fishing
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#7 Post by KERRY1 »

That's great fishing for this time of year, well done :D
I'm so jealous of you catching the thornbacks! :mrgreen:
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#8 Post by Paul Harris »

thanks for the nice comments.
got to say the thornies were a big surprise to me this early in the year. Heard of a big catch of them in January a couple of years ago so perhaps its just luck to fall on a shoal of them, the next few weeks will tell.
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#9 Post by StevieC »

Well done Paul - nice fishing.

I am planning a camping trip to the Beara last weekend in June and aim to call with you for some bait and hopefully a few tips :wink:

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#10 Post by RockHunter »

Well done Paul.
I will have to have another weekend trip to Beara in the early summer - when the pollock and wrasse are back. So we will be booking a night or two in your guesthouse.
Cod season Winter 2013/14: 117 cod (best fish: 6.5 lbs)
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2008: 37
2009: 120
2010: 44
2011: 151
2012: 79
2013: 20
2014: 19
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#11 Post by tazdogue »

Thats a mighty session, congrats.
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#12 Post by Grumpy Plugger »

Well done, good session for time of year, hope I have as good as one at the weekend. Nice one on the Huss! :D
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#13 Post by Al and Jordan »

nice fishing paul :P huss and rays seem like a distant memory to us at our marks. roll on the summer :P
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#14 Post by mk1rs »

nice report paul

we will see you and ann in july cant wait :D

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#15 Post by mann »

Well done Paul,

That the first thornback i heard of being caught this year, missed out on a trip back down there last summer but i will make up for it this year,

keep the reports coming in as they wet my appetite for the place... your so lucky to be surrounded by all the beautiful sights to be seen there,

I will never forget that fat huss i got there on christmas day :D
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