Lahinch and environs, Clare April 6th - 10th

People:Myself and either Dad, Girlfriend or Brother in Law

Duration:a lot

Tide: all tides

Weather: fantastic

Bait: crab, lug, lazy lug, mackeral, sandeels, mussel

Rigs: mostly 2 / 3 hook flappers, some pulleys.

Results: 6 Doggies, 2 Bass (4 1/2 & 5 1/2 lbs), 1 Flounder, 1 small conger, 3 coalies

Catch and Release:: Yes/No. Kept one bass.



Report: Had planned an extended Easter break solely to go fishing around lahinch and for once it didn't rain on me non stop for the duration.

Somehow the wives and girlfriends accepted the fact that us lads were going to pay them no attention for the Easter as we were focused purely on getting a few decent fish. The brilliant weather made conditions difficult much of the time, brightness and little surf forced into doing a lot more all nighters than I had planned, as any daylight fishing was a waste of time (bar the conger i got near Blackhead) but with such great weather i didn't complain.

Fished Lahinch, White Strand, Cregg, Fanore, Doolin and Liscannor beaches over the weekend, and spent a few hours on the rocks by Blackhead one afternoon (watching people spinning for imaginary mackeral).

All the other fish were taken in a single session, at night in the 2 hours from high tide and into the turn, which was pretty frantic with some double shots of doggies and two bass almost simultaneously. The bass both went for the fresh lug, the flounder a sandeel, coalies on lug, doggies on everything. Can't moan about having one great session, having not been out since christmas.

Was a bit puzzled that the only difference I could see between the productive night and all the others was the clear sky, otherwise times tides etc were much the same.

Anyway great to be out again and to have one great session.

Bumped into neilus one night at Cregg beach: nice to meet you!! :D

Well done Sham - a great Easter fishing trip....

Jude

i have a trip planned in june there are twenty of us heading over to lahinch,

you said you fished a few places but were was the session were you racked up all the fish,

cheers

mick

Well done on the bass 8)

I had the rods in the car that evening but was too tired from reeling in those doubles of doggies from that other mark down south of Cregg well done on the fishing over the few days havent caught any bass yet this year that i can think of :(

hey neilus,

i went up to the strand the next night hoping to get a doggie on the bass spinning rod (figured that might get the girlfriend into the night time fishing ) but total blanks on all three rods, despite fishing through the high tide. Fished off the slipway, though the other side looked more promising.

Good to bump into another SAI lad though. Must chat about that flounder mark you mentioned.

I wouldn't worry too much about the bass, you've got a 10lb cod already. :shock: