Goleen and surroundings

Posted this under meets buddies and seats as well, but seeing as that seems to have less people looking at it.....

Lads,

I am going to help my FIL next week for a few days in Goleen renovating a house down there. I will be taking the rods and heading out most nights (small caravan with the in laws, so any excuse to get out :) ). Anyone heading out down that way looking for a buddy or even point me in the direction of a mark or two? Also I have a spot or two for bait digging, but where would I get frozen bait down that way?

Cheers,
Lee

Hello Lee,

I got good pointers for this area from 'Pyreneenguy', do a search for posts for good info.
One spot near Mizen is a mystery to find so contact me if you want

Blackie

Cheers Tom,

Had a look at the posts alright, for all the good they did me :) - got out one night only with Lastcast, but I'll be down that way again, so I'll bear the info in mind.

When are you coming out by the way?

I was hoping to sneak a couple of hours on a rock somewhere, didn't even manage that!

April's got to be the month....

Blackie

I am going to help my FIL next week for a few days in Goleen renovating a house down there. Anyone heading out down that way looking for a buddy or even point me in the direction of a mark or two? Also I have a spot or two for bait digging, but where would I get frozen bait down that way?

Hi Lee

Best to buy the bait at the Halway or Clon Tackle on the way there, not many shops in between although I think there is a hardware store of sorts in Schull that sells bait but possibly only in summer?

Great marks in the area. Try the north or east beaches at Barleycove - you can land anything here including giltheads now (east). Best bass mark is the cliffs to the south of the east beach around low water up.

Galley cove is just south of the east beach - forget white strand as its small flat city, with the odd dog in summer, and that if you are lucky.

If the weather is very bad, try the road bridge over the "lake" which is saltwater for flounder, freshwater eels and mullet (should be there by now). If the wind is in the SW and bad, head for Tour Pier and do not fish it, rather hike two klicks east to a small island (not Bird Island) and fish the channel on a rising tide for rough ground species, wrasse and pollack.

I could send you out to Sligger Point and Three Castle head as well but that is fearsome ground, 60 metres plus cliffs in most places. Amazing but its probably a sucking bog currently and we'd never see you again!

There are also two nice coves at the bottom of the penninsula guarding Crookhaven, one directly above Streek Head facing the Alderman rocks and another shallow one further north. Took schoolies and flats there.

Finally, the whole southern shore from here back to Galley is good for rough ground species, but if you get distance it lands on sand and you should be seeing rays - thornies and small eyed - show up there now.

Stunning place. A trip over to Mizen is well worth it as well on a good day for the photos. Fishing Barleycove in a decent swell is just immense.

Green with envy...

:wink:

Thanks Kieran,
All good stuff for my next trip down :D
I will report back on my findings, another gilthead would be nice......

I used fish down that way a few years ago. I had great sucess fishing Chimney cove ( a small beach just up from barleycove). The tide runs hard there and minimum 6oz grippers are needed to hold the bottom. I had good bass on peeler crab and some of the biggest flat fish I've ever caught on mackerel tipped with lug. There is rock fishing to the left of the beach but at this time of year the swell can be dangerous there,

Best of luck

Cheers Chris

I used fish down that way a few years ago. I had great sucess fishing Chimney cove ( a small beach just up from barleycove

Hi Chris

Is that the small one sandwiched between two rocks arm, just down from Barleycove north, on the Crookhaven side of the river but short of Barleycove east?

Cheers

Thats the spot, The reason the current is so strong there is because the stream runs across the bay and around the rocks about ten metres out it creates a very strong cross current especially in the spring and winter. This stirs up the bottom and is probably why it is so good for the flatties. A short lob is all that is needed I never had much success at distance. There is also a shallow sandbar about 20 metres out, just the far side of this seems to produce school bass.

This information is about 3 years old so the course of the stream may have changed.

And a word of caution for anyone swimming there in the summer I have often had to go in after young kids there as if you get caught in the current and are not a strong swimmer you can be twenty of thirty metres out in a matter of seconds especially when the tide is going.

Cheers Tom,

Had a look at the posts alright, for all the good they did me :) - got out one night only with Lastcast, but I'll be down that way again, so I'll bear the info in mind.

When are you coming out by the way?

Sorry if my info was of little use :(

I'm having a week near Schull, end of May( 3rd visit) with a 2nd week
near Killorglin. If the fishing is as good as previous visits,that's fine enough for me :)

Hi Pyrenneeguy,

Sorry - that maybe didn't sound right - wasn't that your posts were bad, they were in fact quite good, just that I didn't get a chance to put them to the test!
Thanks for posting them anyway. Hope you have good luck when you are over again.