Kilmore Quay

Lads im fishing a comp out of Kilmore Quay on Sunday, ive never fished it before so can anyone let me in on the secerts to this spot, the normal tactics, baits and rigs. any help would be great

Its Wrasse, Pollack and coalies mainly with Cod and occasional ling etc in between amongst other bits. You cannot have too much Rag when fishing from Kilmore Quay. Use gilling tactics for pollack, I usually use a team of 3 jellies but instead of a worm on one I use a small 2 inch storm shad. I find this picks up other bits and pieces, Gurnard, Wrasse etc. If you have decent enough sized rag, use them on your gilling traces also.

I had great success using a 3 hook spreader rig in the SAI comp baited with rag. Try and add a small little sliver of mack to the baits too, this picked up codling and ling when all else was quiet. Would love to be heading out from Kilmore this weekend, its great fishing. Coalies were being picked up in midwater a couple of weeks ago so pause your rigs on the way down several times, as you would do for macks. If there are macks present though, that will rule that out!

To add to that, bring plenty of leads with you and attach with a weak link. Its tackle hungry ground down there. I used 10-15lb class gear most of the time and it was perfect.

Sorry yea i meant to put it in the boat section... this might sound stupid but im only getting in to boat fishing now, what is Gilling??? and a spreader rig?? i will look for some shads in the tackle shop tomo. anything else i should bring along?? i only used to use baited feathers and stuff

Gilling is fishing 0ne or a team of lures from a boom, usually a trace of about 10-15 feet is used of 30-40lb Fluoro or similar. You have a lure at the point, and then 2 droppers of a foot or so coming off it along the length. Make sure these do not overlap each other or its tangle city. Attach your lures of choice and slowly retrieve it back. Because Kilmore is not that deep, I would retrieve it all the way back to the boat before dropping back down again. If you do feel a fish plucking at it, keep on winding, when you feel the fish really hit it, let it take a bit of line and have a little swim about....cue double and treble shots if they are there in numbers.

Motor oil and gold fleck is a good colour of jelly to use but good sized king rag willoutfish most plastics. As far as baited rigs are concerned, have a look at the shamrock tackle range of stuff on http://www.Crabrock.com, opt for smaller sized hooks and bait these with rag and a very thin small sliver of mack. Red and yellow are good colours.

The spreader rig I referred to is similar to a 3 hook boomed flapper. Attach some beads above the hooks, luminous yellow works well for wrasse, red again is another good option.

Your main focus should be on obtaining sufficient rag. I needed 140 on my last sortie to Kilmore. Tip, when baiting with rag on the feather rigs or the spreaders, dont just head hook them and leave a long tail, this will result in missed bites. thread on the hook as normal, break them leaving 1.5-2 inches of tail and thread the tail portion on as well. It gives a nice fluttering action and being closer to the hook results inmore hook ups especially from bait robbing wrasse. The addititon of a sliver of mack will result in picking up cuckoos, codling, coalies, pout and small ling as opposed to mainly just wrasse and pollack.

Enjoy it, let us know how you get on.

Hi Pete,

Having probs visualizing a gilling rig...do you know where I could view a diagram?...and also what is scratching?

I do a fair bit of scratching but usually its my head trying to figure out why im not catching!

Thanks pete ill let ya no how i get on. And ill be busy maken traces tonight!!! Cheers!!

Great advise Pete..... Some notes taken :D

Kev

For Oisin.....

Thats what I use most of the time. The length of this rig can be lengthened on scratchy days and the lures cut down to just one when the fish are being picky. You can attach whatever you want to this trace, ragworm, sandeel, jelly worms, shads, eddystone eels.....whatever you like. Dont be afraid to experiment with different colours and sizes of lures, there can be days when pollack just wont have it and you need to change things around.


BTW KK, how did you get on?

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Made a few of them up Pete, couldnt wait to try them. and the copm was called off due to the easterlys. was a shame i was looking forward to it.

Thats unfortunate KK, never mind, next time. I spent half of Sunday fitting electronics to my boat in preperation for her maiden salt water voyage after a lengthy wait to have an engine fitted. That was following a phone call from a local charter skipper with some seriously good info. Of course it blew a hooley Sat night and all day Sun so put the skids on that. Next time.... Next time.....