cork harbour small boat fishing

Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:38 pm

heading down to cork harbour this weekend fishing out of cobh on small boat, just wondering what type of species might i encounter and what baits i should bring, any info would be great lads.
regards

Re: cork harbour small boat fishing

Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:35 pm

Inside Roches Point: mackerel, conger, dogfish, huss, codling, whiting, pollack, poor cod, bass, plaice, dabs, flounder, launce, blonde and thornback ray, tub gurnard

Outside: you can add haddock, red gurnard, grey gurnard, ling, cuckoo and ballan wrasse,coalfish and pouting with bigger cod, pollack and whiting

Baits: plenty of mackerel inside and outside the harbour bring everything else except the maddies :lol: no small fish down this way. :lol: :lol:

Re: cork harbour small boat fishing

Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:20 pm

Thanks Donal sounds the bizz, kind of heard it can be scratchy but i suppose knowing where to fish is the key to good catches
regards,

Re: cork harbour small boat fishing

Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:29 pm

kind of heard it can be scratchy but i suppose knowing where to fish is the key to good catches

That's true Skip.
Are you down with Stella Maris?

Re: cork harbour small boat fishing

Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:01 pm

I am indeed Jim, 20 of us heading down to the Bellavista for the weekend. Fingers crossed weather and fishing is good.

Re: cork harbour small boat fishing

Thu Aug 19, 2010 12:32 am

Good stuff.
Friday is looking crap. Hopefully Sat will be better. You'll get the low down on the fishing at the Bella Vista.