where r the best pollack marks?

had a weeks fishing in dingle last week, was told that if you want to catch big pollack up to 10lb then this is the place to go, fished dunmore head right hand side only caught fish up to 4lb, went out the front had fish up to 6lb tried clognher head right hand side at low tide but found it hard to fish 5 people, so we went over the top to the left found a lovely looking mark with a big reef about 50 yards in front of us caught fish up to 4lb, then on another day we tried brandon creek got down to fish but their was a big swell running only caught a few fish to 4lb, we found it hard all week to fish a lot of marks because of the strong southerly winds and the big ground seas.thinking about going again next year is their anyone who can tell us the best marks to fish the best time of year and the best tides?

the biggest pollock i heard of was over 12lb . it was caught at low tide at a beach called ballyferriters cove. mind you its the shallowest surf beach around which is kinda strange!

the places you mention all hold good fish as does slea head , where there are loads of places to fish from the easy to the hairy! i heard brandon creek is very good but like all the marks around some days the big fish are not there. The trick is usually to find deeper water close in

I do all my pollock fishing from the shore on the fly and am not really able to land anything over 10lbs as they will break me up. I fish ballinskelligs and what we have found is that you need to be close to deep water. the marks we fish drop off to over 100 feet very close in and we find that in the evening on a rising tide the bigger fish that live down in the depths come in close and within range for the fly. One other thing that may be of use to you is to report that the pollock have been thin on the ground this year in bskelligs compared to last year. we have found that over the last 20 years that every 4 r 5 years there seems to b one year year that the numbers are low but they also return the next year. It hasnt been due to over fishing over the years as no real fishing has been done for them either on rod or line or long lines. anyone got any ideas why the numbers go up and down like this with pollock? is it parasites?

Liam

I think it has to do with sandeels everything else around you describe seems to ...on the basis that we dont catch sandeels we cant always tell whether there are large numbers or not. I am sure these drive the numbers of flatfish, mackeral and pollock to an extent . I wonder if you found Mackeral hard to come by this year as well? I suspect so because the eels move around the mackeral follow and the pollock follow the mackral..Just a theroy but have notice trends on other venues that follwo this pattern.

as a matter of interest we are out that way in a couple of weeks I will let you know. Also we will be trying fly fishing for the first time - were you fishing the headland areas in Ballinsgkellis or facing back round into the south towards the next bay down ? I just cant think of any 100ft deep pplace sthat are accesible to fly fishing ...need to go looking !

I would agree to a point but dont pollock tend to be resident on a reef for the season as opposed to the pelagic boys like the macks.
and as for the marks with 100ft close in, anywhere down from kilrelig should do. make sure the rocks arnt wet and its calm mind u.