Beach casting around Louisburgh
Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:56 pm
Hi, I'm quite new to fishing and am desperate to explore the other options besides mackerel at high tide. Could anybody give any tips for the beaches west of Louisburgh? I'm not sure where to start, what tackle, tide etc. Thanks!
Re: Beach casting around Louisburgh
Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:41 pm
If you get a chance call in to Doug in A Shore Thing tackle shop on the quays in Westport and he'll fill you in on areas to fish around that area.
Re: Beach casting around Louisburgh
Tue Aug 14, 2012 7:06 pm
hurler01 wrote:If you get a chance call in to Doug in A Shore Thing tackle shop on the quays in Westport and he'll fill you in on areas to fish around that area.
thats good advice
Re: Beach casting around Louisburgh
Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:25 pm
Will do, thanks for the tip 
Re: Beach casting around Louisburgh
Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:03 am
You need to talk a lot of what Doug says with a pinch of salt.
Most of the beaches are very shallow and consequently only produce at night.
Lugworm is a good all round bait with flounder the dominant species. Small turbot are a regular fish here but you need to be using small hooks (1s or smaller). Sea trout bass and dogfish will show up depending on the location and if you fish close to the rocks, you can expect to find pollack in amongst the mackerel, along with the odd wrasse (mostly ballans).
Some of the deeper water venues can throw up thornback rays in amongst the dogfish but only with a running tide and typically off rocks and not beaches.
Later in the season you can be drive demented by massive shoals of small coalfish. Tourmakeady Point is a great spot for watching the local otters but its a long walk and the fishing is not great on the point itself. There is a good pollack hole on the walk out - and if you hit that nearing darkness and full tide, big pollack come in with sport up to 10 lbs, the majority being in the 4-6 lbs range. Float fishing a sand eel is the best method here.
And there's mullet on the really shallow beaches further south towards Ugool...
HTH
Most of the beaches are very shallow and consequently only produce at night.
Lugworm is a good all round bait with flounder the dominant species. Small turbot are a regular fish here but you need to be using small hooks (1s or smaller). Sea trout bass and dogfish will show up depending on the location and if you fish close to the rocks, you can expect to find pollack in amongst the mackerel, along with the odd wrasse (mostly ballans).
Some of the deeper water venues can throw up thornback rays in amongst the dogfish but only with a running tide and typically off rocks and not beaches.
Later in the season you can be drive demented by massive shoals of small coalfish. Tourmakeady Point is a great spot for watching the local otters but its a long walk and the fishing is not great on the point itself. There is a good pollack hole on the walk out - and if you hit that nearing darkness and full tide, big pollack come in with sport up to 10 lbs, the majority being in the 4-6 lbs range. Float fishing a sand eel is the best method here.
And there's mullet on the really shallow beaches further south towards Ugool...
HTH