balscadden-ling?!

a mate of mine was fishing up in balscadden a while ago and he caught a ling!! :o it waz small but still it waz a ling i never knew you could catch ling at balscadden! does anyone else ever hear of ling being caught of balscadden?? i mite go up 2 balscadden during the week to see if i can get a bigger one, i never fished for ling so wot rigs and rod should i use??

cheers

I'd say it was a 3 or 5 bearded rockling.

Ling are deep water creatures...very rare u one close to the shore line at all...

iv have had them from the shore in shankill !! so its possible !! an up to 7lb off dalkey island !!

Their occasionaly caught in glin and all the deep water rock marks in clare. Saying that 9 times out of 10 someone says they caught ling its usually a rockling.

Donagh

Hi

I caught a small one - strap ling ! - many years ago - off the split rock on the corner and I mean many years ago, thought it was a stray but there is rough ground, a severe current and several deep hole and reefs... mostly we took pollack to 3 lbs, coalfish half that size, macks, strap congers, doggies as you all know, a lobster and if you cast with rotten bottom rigs to the stacks across the small bay on your right, long cast required, there are some superb wrasse there, underneath the sea bird colony. Specimens. Rag needed to be certain to get them, oddly enough small crabs were very poor baits. Lots of tackle losses. The track to the split rock should NEVER be attempted in anything other than perfect weather and only by those with no fear of heights... and keep the rod in your left hand on the way down so you can grab onto the grass if you slip. The passage floods from mid water up...

FWIW

ive seen more than one ling caught off the forty foot in sandycove, up to 6lbs, never got one off the shore mind you. :oops:

ha ! i think i know the diff between a ling and a rockling !! :lol: :wink:

have had them off the galley head no more than a hundred yards off the rocks in the boat so see no reason why they wouldnt be taken off the shore

i have taken ling from the shore, they where small and yes it was ling, it was a rock mark with deep water and a strong tidal flow,

ive also had ling from the shore have had them from dunlire pier dalky island and northbeach greystones biggest was about 3 pound

Have had them to 5lb at the rocks in Teelin, regular enough to see them in fact.

Have had them to 5lb at the rocks in Teelin, regular enough to see them in fact.

just out of curiosity do you know how deep it is off them rocks??

might try get up there this year (hence the cultivation of my disguise, beard)

iv got one from the shore