Twaite Shad, St. Mullins Co. Carlow 06/05/09

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Twaite Shad, St. Mullins Co. Carlow 06/05/09

Postby alby » Sat May 09, 2009 8:49 am

Species:Twaite Shad

Specimen Weight:1.1 Kgs / 2.4225 lbs

Irish record:1.48 Kgs

Location:St Mullins Co. Carlow

Bait:Tasmanian Devil

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Report:Had some great sport down there with the shad running the river, had over 20 fish in 4 hours and easily lost twice that many, mostly the spinner coming flying back at me when the fish jumped.

Had the specimen a little deeper than some of my other fish, counted to 7 before reeling, and the cast after I had another fish of just over a KG, but unfortunately he was 1.04kg, 60 grams under specimen.
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Re: Twaite Shad, St. Mullins Co. Carlow 06/05/09

Postby Davy Murdoch » Sat May 09, 2009 9:08 am

nice fish alby 8) was alot of fish just over the 1kg mark and most were 0.9kg.
finally got my speci :D think ronalds gona put a report up so i`ll add the pic`s to that.

well done again and it was nice to meet you.everyday was like a SAI meet :lol:
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Re: Twaite Shad, St. Mullins Co. Carlow 06/05/09

Postby keith » Sat May 09, 2009 2:34 pm

Well done bud :wink:
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Re: Twaite Shad, St. Mullins Co. Carlow 06/05/09

Postby wayne riley » Sun May 10, 2009 8:53 am

well done mate, nice fish :D :wink:
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Re: Twaite Shad, St. Mullins Co. Carlow 06/05/09

Postby Dave » Sun May 10, 2009 9:32 am

Nice fish, well done Alby. I was down there yesterday and caught a couple from the same spot as that one, one nice one but I had no scales with me. I reckon it must be coming to the end of the run as there wasn't too many being caught yesterday and I only had three myself but I did bump into Corbyeire and Shamoo. Always nice to meet people off the site and put faces to the name.
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