Anyone have any signs of tope this year yet, I know it's early but gonna start fishing for them next week have one rod out there for them Everytime now. Just wondering has anyone got one or been bitten off by one. Also any tips for catching one would be great (bait used ect). Was watching a video where he used a fillet of Mack and two fillets of whiting worked great for him.
You haven’t mentioned what part of the country you’re going to try. The earliest I’ve tried for them in North Wexford is mid April and I’ve had them then. Regarding bait, they’ll take most fishy offerings, but Mackerel is always good, I like using heads or flappers as they tend to be more doggy proof. Live whiting lightly hooked through the tail work great too.
Got excited there with mid April. Yeah from the shore will be fishing north Wexford like ballyvalden/tinnabearna. O know it's early heard someone was bitten off few weeks ago on tinnabearna. So hoping for the best
Anyone any look so far with shore tope. Gonna give it a good try on Monday night.. got a couple of smoothies last week it's easy to forget the fight they put in nothing like it. Really want to catch my first tope though.
Thompst111 wrote:Anyone any look so far with shore tope. Gonna give it a good try on Monday night.. got a couple of smoothies last week it's easy to forget the fight they put in nothing like it. Really want to catch my first tope though.
Ya just had a tope from the shore on Sunday. 153cm fish caught on squid.
Thompst111 wrote:Anyone any look so far with shore tope. Gonna give it a good try on Monday night.. got a couple of smoothies last week it's easy to forget the fight they put in nothing like it. Really want to catch my first tope though.
Wait until you hit a shore tope, you will soon forget the smoothies , we have a plague of hounds at the moment here in Wales, they aren.t giving the dogfish time to pick up the baits
Now you have me drooling for one my largest smoothie was 12lbs and amazing fight dying for a tope been watching videos of lads in the UK catching tope just looks brilliant. Next week I'm thinking just going for tope two rods two big baits I generally go for one rod big bait one close small. Next week all big
What is the fishing for them like in late September, early October? Where's worth a try at that stage? Would love to catch one but out of the country until then.
Thanks for sharing that video, very enjoyable and a very nice result, good angling. Have subbed and looking forward to anything else you might do in the future. So nice to see some Irish shore angling on YouTube.