Bass washed up on Ballyconigar Beach
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 11:55 pm
I fished The above on Sunday 2/10/05 for 3 hours. Whilst there my brother went for an amble and returned with a legal (>41cm) Bass which had obviously been dead for a while - eyes out, Dorsal fin almost gone but otherwise still intact apart from a hole in the caudal area. After about an hour another angler came over to us with a dead fish wanting to know what it was - another Bass 35cm or more, again well dead but not as decayed but intact. Anybody any ideas whats going on? No other fish were washed up other than maybe a dozen 2 foot diameter jellyfish and there was a seal offshore. ~Lots of diving birds offshore (gannets?) but otherwise a calm sea.