Kerry is the Kingdom

People:Bootsy & myself

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Results:wrasse, pollock & gar




Report:
I know the usual cliché is Carlsberg don’t do fishing sessions and all that, but we pretty much had a week of them like that down in Kerry.

I’ve being going down every year for he last 6 years or so but never had the quality of fishing we had on this trip and that’s down to 3 people –

John Sheehan from Kerry Sea Baits (http://www.facebook.com/kerryseabaits)
Out with us till all hours of the night putting us on serious fish, he also had the greatest treble shot I’ve ever seen, but that’s for another day. How he pacifies her indoors is beyond me!!

Also Martin & Eugene from Ullcatch (http://www.ullcatch.com/)
Martin has alluded to the Ray fishing we enjoyed (viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41034) and again the effort and time both gave up to help us get a few fish was incredible & we can’t thank you all enough.

Anyway, “Wexford Dave” from Killiney had to go home on Thursday evening, so myself & Fintan decided to do a little rock fishing on Friday on Slea Head in great conditions. The plentiful wrasse were very obliging to float fished ragworm , crab & jelly worms and the sport was terrific. Fintan bagged himself a big dark backed specimen on Rag that fought every inch of the way from the kelp and we were both made up to see it go 4lb 14oz.

I decided to try worry the Pollock population, so with the ever reliable green Kilty, belted it out, allowed it to touch bottom and began the retrieve, I’d normally have a hit with a few seconds of starting the retrieve, cracking sport. One cast I had no hits so was skimming the Kilty across the top when it was grabbed acrobatically by a nice Garfish, great scrap and the first time I’d landed one despite hooking many! A good day just got better.

We wanted to try a beach later on & make it back for a late pint so we gave ourselves another half an hour when my spinner was grabbed at the start of the retrieve by a serious fish, the powerful Daiwa spinning rod I was using hooped around and the tight drag I’d set still gave out line under fierce pressure. This continued the whole way in when I got a lucky break, a big swell lifted the fish over a sunken rock in front of us that I’d lost a good fish in earlier on, and it was now in a gully under our feet, I still hadn’t seen the fish and it was still pulling for the kelp.

Eventually a bronze flank turned broadside & the sun caught the fish, it was massive!
Last problem, extracting fish from said gully considering the landing net was in the boot of the car some 15 minutes away! And so started amateur night, with the two boys trying to handball a double figure fish 4 foot up a rock ledge, amazingly the fish made another dash for freedom, a sickening double crack sound meant the rod had caved in under the pressure, that could wait, I wanted a photo of this fish. How we managed to haul the fish up onto the ledge, I’ll never really know, but a swell came in and Fintan grabbed the Kilty and dragged the lip hooked fish onto the rock, usually the stupid high fives and shouting would start, but the two of us just stood there looking at the fish, “That’s a fcukin Donkey” was all Fintan said.

A few quick snaps and just to be sure, we weighed her, she indeed was a double at 10lb 3oz. Back she went, I’ll never get a bigger Shore Pollock. My phone went, it was Paul who was joining us for the weekend, “I’m in Landers, do you want anything?”

“Grab us an oul spinning rod there mate!!”

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Thats some pollock, congrats!!

that is a cracker fairplay you have me dreaming about the white surf beaches and rocky headlands.. God i love kerry

Nice Pollock!

Proper pollock Alby

If you're going to break your rod you might as well doing it with a fish like that.

excellent pollock mate and a lovely gar

Well done lads, and a great report Alby,,,,,,,,,,In my mind I was there lifting that pollock up the rocks with yis A fcukin donkey is right ,,,,well worth a broken rod

Belter of a pollock That wrasse isn't bad either! Sounds like a great trip.

That's some lump of a Pollock very nice fishing

well done great report

savage pollock

Yer havin a laugh, that pollock would have pulled me in..!!!

Excellent Alby fair play

Thats a belter of a pollock sound like a great scrap of it. Fair play for putting the fish back.... and did you get that spinning rod....

awesome pollock alby,sounds like ye had a ball, well done lads, and thanks for a great report.

sounds like you had a cracking trip, congratulations on the pollock.
I leave for a weeks fishing in Kerry this Thursday night, arriving early Friday, my first fishing trip in Ireland, and i feel like a kid at Christmas time.
Its great to read such positive reports, so thanks

What a fish! well done.

Its a cracking area... ive had amazing pollack down around the rocks at Ventry, not far from there, over the last two years. Ive parked out at Coumeenole and treked over the fields and fished down the far saide there a few times with great success on jelly worms too... cracking area...

Just thinking, a fish like this must hoover up everything bite size down there. Small pollock, wrasse, etc etc
Did ye catch anything else..???

"More pollock..?????..............There are no more pollock"