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gregfromfrance wrote:Hello guys
I'm Greg, french fresh and SW fishing enthusiast
A friend and I had the idea to come to your country by ferry (landing at Rosslare) for a few days with our boat for fishing purpose...
For the moment we have the idea but no information...
Would you mind helping us ? we are not looking for your secret spots or tricks but our first questions to see if it's a good idea are :
- is it possible to fish with a french boat on your waters ?
- we'd like to fish for sea bass, are the south waters good for sea bass fishing by the beginning of october ?
- do you know places were we could put our boat onto the water ? (we will bring it on a trailer)
Thanks for your help
gregfromfrance wrote:OK, so in case of strong west or north west wind, do you think it's possible to fish in Cork arbour ? I guess there will not have too big waves but is it sheltered from wind ?
gregfromfrance wrote:good, we will try to come by the 10th of september or the 5 th of october, to be decided in the next days
seems to be a great place to fish.
two last question : I read on this forum that sea bass are mostly "coastal and shallow", which is quite different from France... so you guys don't fish/catch bass on rocks under 10 or 30 meters deep ?
and if anyone knows a cheap place where to sleep with a boat on a trailer, as we come for 10 days a kind of flat/small house (to cook and have breakfast on our own) would be great.
gregfromfrance wrote:THank you, they were full but we found an other place that seems to be good, where we can park car + boat on the trailer.
Is there a good fishing shop in the area ?
gregfromfrance wrote:It's in case we need gears we don't have left (lures) or broken (rods).
gregfromfrance wrote:Sure, we made a big stock
So sunday on our way from Dublin we will fish in the evening a Kilmore Quay then from monday to saturday around Cork HArbour !
gregfromfrance wrote:back from holidays
We had some great great fishing !
first day we spent 5 hours on the way to Cork at Kilmore Quay, what a spot ! We caught about 15 basses (around 45-55 cm) and 45 nice pollocks, a lot of fun this day.
Then we fished around Cork, most of the time it was possible to fish outside the harbour. We tried inside the harbour but it was not crazy... outside it was awesome :tons of polocks (around 70 and 120 a day ) and some bass (difficult to find, perhaps due to the very small tides ??). There were plenty of mackerels too but a bit too easy to fish, so we spent half and hour catching some then swapped to pollocks.
We kept a pollock a day, the other went back to water
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