Galway bay mystery?

Two summers ago we were fishing in galway bay for tope and anything that would take our bait. Wasnt too experienced with the sea fishing a that stage. My brother hooked into something massive that had a 30-50lb class rod doubled over my dad had to hold onto him as he nearly got pulled in even with the "thing" going mental taking line. We were using about 4ft of wire trace and a 4/0 hook with a mackeral flapper connected to 30lb mainline after a couple of mins running it all went slack he wound it back in and the mainline was all rubbed and rough. Was it a big tope a seal or something else??????? It was a pretty featureless bottom just bare rock and sand. We didnt get anything after that.

could it have been a skate???

Ive no idea I thought it might have been a skate at the time it was taking line off the reel at some speed we were not too far out either only about a mile id say.

Jack,

can you be a bit more specific where you were? was it off the islands, Clare side or Connemara side?

The bay can hold alot of various species during the summer.

It could possibly have been a Porbeagle, last year we caught 2 in the bay, 12ft approx.

regards

sean

It was just off ballynahowan that sort of area it could have been a bit further out.

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it could have been anything, porgy, blue, skate and even tuna have been caught in the bay :shock:

i heard of a couple of skate caught in the area you have marked and that would have been around the same time as well..

you never know :shock: :wink:

Hmmmm will just have to try again this summer. Something big down there :D :D :D . "We'll need a bigger boat". [IMG:120:69]http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r30/jack01986/3866chum_4.gif[/img]

Has to be a big shark for me..... good luck in yiur efforts to chase it down ...

The area between Cloughmore point & Castle point can be productive for many species. What exactly i will keep:lol: , but Skate (excluding thornbacks) is one thing i have never heard of been caught in this general area. I have even spoken to some decommissioned skippers and they agree. The area is featureless, only hard sand.

Next time your down try the following mark, can be productive, sometimes a hit and miss. ( 53 12' 8" N, 9 32' W or 53 12' 8" N, 9 28' 6" W).

Tuna have been caught, methods some legal some not! General area, west of golam point and rock island.

PM if you need any further info.

Sean

Cheers for that Sean will give those spots a try in the summer.