Skate from the shore

check this one out


http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Ega3ovai8CM

lads cheers for all the info, appreciated.
I'v a bit of a prob with youtube cause I acess the internet at work in a national school and the tube is bared from the network-something to do with Skate giving the kids nightmares etc


Edit: so next time they'r knockin the teachers for finishi9ng work at 3 you can tell em you know one who's in work after 9 checkin his pm's

As you indicated there were several captures off Fenit, the most remarkable being a 109 lb skate landed after 4.5 hours on 19 lb mono. There is a picture and some description in one of the main sea angling books, damned if I know which one. Reckon Norman or Dr Whelan in the CFB would be your best bet for information - it would have been 'of their generation'!

The only places I have heard of skate captures are one at night, reported on this site, from one of the Dingle beaches a few years back (search the archives) and another from Mayo, although I suspect this may have been a large thornie as it was described as a "juvenile skate" by someone who has never seen a live adult one!

There is a place in Clew Bay where they come within a few hundred metres of shore. Some night on a big tide in October I'm.... yeah... or I might stay in!

Good luck with your project.

Hope this helps...

Hi Hugh,
for what its worth was talking to a guy at work who used to work on a trawler back in the day.They used get skate regularly from a few spots very close to the shore in cork harbour especially crosshaven direction.
Hugh feb is coming up soon so hurry up gathering the info as i've a few wire traces and 300lb mono leader that needs to be tested.By the way i mentioned the graphite spray scenario to rob i think his uncle has some ,so give him a buzz.
Talk soon

was fishing tinnaberna in wexford around two years ago would have been mid summer and i recon me mate had a skate on. what ever he had it just keep on swimming out to sea at a steady pace and he couldnt stop it wasnt a tope in anyways thats for sure so we recon it was a skate.

over the years there have been some big 50lb+ monk fish caught down the east coast you never now it might have been one of these lads.

as i have never caught a monk so i cant comment on the speed at which they travel when hooked.

some do still call thornies SKATE so you still might be right samo

I know what i saw John and it was no thornie or monk fish