dont laugh

I was fishing greystones yesterday and caught nothing, its been fishing really well for mackeral all week, but yeterday it was really quite. i think the reason is that i think i saw an orca, it was only about 50 meters out, it was black and far too big to be a porpoise, am i going mad, could i be right. i was with 2 others and they agree that it was certainly far too massive to be a porpoise

Not laughing. I have seen them off the Donegal coast as well. I think it was in the news at the weekend that some had been spotted in Irish waters as well. That'll put manners on the seals....

Pity they wouldn't put manners on some of thopse cheeky seals out there but Orcas or killer whales (which are in fact dolpins and not whales at all) only eat fish in the northern hemisphere. Its the southern hemisphere orcas that feed on marine mammals and birds and swim right up onto beeches to take seals.

Ah, but how do you know they weren't southern Orcas? :lol: I can tell you for nothing that if they wanted to live around the Donegal coast, they'd have little option but to eat seal, given my catch reports (or non-catch reports) lately.

I was also in Greystones (south beach) yesterday morning - saw a group of dolphins (not porpoises) moving north to south - every now and then there would be mad splashing activity - I presume they were feeding ! 'Bout 90 minutes later they came back, this time moving south to north - but they were just half a cast length (50 m) from the shore - reeled in quick as I could - not that I thought they would take me mackeral just didn't want them getting caught up in lines and hurt them...

Anyhow, 2 doggies for 5 hours effort.....

Best regards

A Couple of years ago I worked on 'The Brothers' out of Donagadee (Don't laugh if you've read Kissfish's report), But one day we sawa Disturbance in the water involving 1 LARGE black & White Marine Mammal, As we watched the Big Biatch swim by we notices it WAS chasing a Seal, I have to say I've never seen a Seal move so fast.... It came approximately 5ft out of the water to get away from the beast... :shock:

Plent of orcas around donegal bay and of the cliffs of bunglass beside teelin.

:lol: :lol: hee, hee, hee orcas off greystones beach :?: thats a good one. ho ho :lol: . na just kidden did u really. once saw a huge pod of dolphines/porpoise' by the rocks to the left of the beach gourging on a huge mackerel shoal.

It's not as unlikely as you might think. See

http://www.rte.ie/news/2001/0611/whales.html

Some closer to home for you sandman.

August 3, 2005 (Belfast [Ireland] Telegraph) A family of killer whales had to be steered away from the North West coastline amid fears they would sink a fishing boat or beach themselves on a Donegal shore.
In scenes not seen since Dopey Dick found his way up the River Foyle in 1977, Loughs Agency staff onboard the patrol vessel 'Lough Bradan' watched the family for 20 minutes until they had to direct them away from some small fishing boats on the coastline.
Mr Wysner said: "Orca whale visits to this area are pretty rare so it was very special to see them so close.
"There were two adults and two juveniles and it's very rare to see four of them together. They came up about a mile off the Inishowen Head.

Bill

I was fishing Greystones myself on Sunday in the boat off the Red Bouy, the Gannons and Bray Head, fishing was poor with a few doggies & some Codling but plenty of Mackeral. I was talking to some of the other lads fishing a local boat competition and while Sundays fishing was nothing great they did say that they had good catches of Tope etc all during the week. Likewise a mate had fished Cahore on Saturday and had good catches of Ray, Bullhuss and Tope but he only caught 1 doggie between 2 on his boat all day Sunday.
Something odd was happening on Sunday allright and I was putting it down to the NE wind blowing.

Damien

I was fishing greystones yesterday and caught nothing, its been fishing really well for mackeral all week, but yeterday it was really quite. i think the reason is that i think i saw an orca, it was only about 50 meters out, it was black and far too big to be a porpoise, am i going mad, could i be right. i was with 2 others and they agree that it was certainly far too massive to be a porpoise

Sure it wasn't just me in a wet suit? :oops: :lol:

As you probably know a pod of Orcas spent a few weeks in Cork Harbour about 3 years ago. They were seen right up to the city near the City Hall. I actually saw them from the Brittany Ferry's ship as I was going on holidays. I got a great view of them with binoculars from the deck. They are an incredible animal, a killing machine.

Hi
I read one post quoting the above
I was in alaska a few years ago and they have both types of orca. They have pods that hunt the salmon and herring and only eat fish. Noisy, boisterous, always jumping and frollicking.
The other pods make almost no noise , and hunt silently for the sea lions and seals there. Sinister
Kev