Carlingford and greenore

Just wondering if anyone has ever caught the mythical spurdogs and ray from the shore around carlingford and greenore. I've heard of people hooking tope here but have never heard of anyone catching the other species that are supposed to be there.

I've tried the area a couple of times but caught nothing!

I've had a few ok codling from the beach there ,and had a few runs from decent fish,but I haven't fished there in years ,beach will throw up flats codling coalies whiting etc in winter ,but I'd fish it in summer mostly , try 1hr before and after low tide .then spin when the tide picks up .when the tide run is strong there's not a hope of holding bottom .there is a few bass and trout about but head along the coast south of greenore

I've had a few ok codling from the beach there ,and had a few runs from decent fish,but I haven't fished there in years ,beach will throw up flats codling coalies whiting etc in winter ,but I'd fish it in summer mostly , try 1hr before and after low tide .then spin when the tide picks up .when the tide run is strong there's not a hope of holding bottom .there is a few bass and trout about but head along the coast south of greenore

Just wondering if anyone has ever caught the mythical spurdogs and ray from the shore around carlingford and greenore.

Not so much mythical as historical! I have caught a few thornback from Greenore beach and have seen spurdog caught by other anglers; sadly this was late 70's and early 80's. Up to the 70's, Carlingford Lough was a prolific spurdog mark for boat angling and some were caught from Greenore beach as the main flow of the tide is along there. I used to do a fair bit of boat angling in the lough in the early 80's and only had a couple of spurs, the usual fare was dozens of dogfish with 6-7 thornies but the rays gradually disappeared too. One of the favourite former Ray marks is now heavily trawled by mussel boats.

I caught a 7lb Thornback from the pier in Warrenpoint - over 40 years ago. Used to fish along by Ballyedmond Castle then too. Dogfish galore. My recent outings around Carlingford Lough have been blank.
Alex.