Help me Donegal

I'm a bit bored of catching mack, pollock and small flatfish. Can anyone point me in the right direction for catching better quality fish or new species? Ling, turbot, ray and maybe even some of the smaller sharks would all be on my hit list.

This is our last weekend of the year and the boat will be launching out of Portnablagh - if the weather isn't too rough we would be fit for anywhere within a 15mile radius which would take in everywhere from Tory Island to Mulroy Bay. So far I have only fished the Sheephaven and around Horn Head.

Anyone able to offer any words of advice to make the most of the weekend??

Cheers !

Out on the sand 3 or 4 miles North of the Limeburner should be producing cod & haddock at the moment. Every chance of blue shark too if you fish for them. Should be plenty of red and tub gurnards about.

Just inside Melmore in the Mulroy will throw up brill, turbot, thornies, small eyed ray and the outside chance of a cuckoo ray.

Where is this lime burner mate? I hear of it but never found out where it was!

My cousin Richard Harshaw is fishing the mouth of Mulroy these days, taking turbot, so if I can nail him down for the date I'll try to get away with him for a few hours.

Limeburner Rock coordinates mate here you go N55 17,992 W7 48.165 put those in your GPS and you should find it ok


Maurice

Thankyou very much!

Just to clarify, from Google Maps, it looks to be about 16km from Portnablagh, out past Mulroy?

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=N55+17.992+W7+48.165&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.165846,39.506836&ie=UTF8&ll=55.239986,-7.877884&spn=0.183215,0.878906&z=11

That's it. Been out there in the wee Orkney, didn't think it was 16 km from PnB!

You can't miss it - it's the only navigation marker in that whole stretch of ocean. (Athough the marker is 1/4 mile North of the Limeburner itself. That can catch out those new to the area.)

Just googling the limeburner rock, I see it comes to within a couple of meters of the surface, is there much chance of hitting it on a low tide?! Sorry for the rookie question

Features identified include Limeburner Rock in water depths of c. 30m. This feature shoals to within 3 m of the sea surface.

The charts show it most shallowest at 6 1/2 feet so it would depend on the draft of your boat but you GPS should keep you right if you want to avoid that part of it.

In the size of craft you have, it's not hitting the 'burner that you need worry about - it's getting too close/on top of it and being caught out by the sudden swell it generates as the rollers pass over it. Stay back from it a couple of hundred meters and watch what happens, it's very instructive.

I'd love to fish right over it in calm conditions - went past it in August in a roaring gale scary biscuits