near b.Pool West clare 6/10

People:Alone

Duration:2hrs

Tide:Flooding

Weather:Fantastic

Bait:Frozen Mack and S.eel

Rigs:3 boom

Results:A trigger a cast...up to 1.5kg (specimen)

Catch and Release:: Yes - Thought about tasting one but got a feeling that they may taste like Wrasse ( My father took some wrasse home after a trip to the Islands when I was a kid and my Ma boiled them.....we had to sell the house!) and I declined. My father took some wrasse home after a trip to the Islands when I was a kid and my Ma boiled them.....we had to sell the house!


Report:The plan was to bait fish while spinning for Pollock. I was ledgering on the bottom for a few casts and then as this was not working I set up a rig with three plastic booms with 4" flowing trace on each. From then on it was a trigger a cast with 2 landed on one cast, I lost 3. Never got a chance to pick up the spinning rod. Some of the hits were fantastic bending the rod into a U shape. They sure put up a scrap mangling size 3 wire hooks, and the chomping while you try to disgorge them - eventually I just tried to straighten them out as best as I could with the gnarled hooks had no adverse effect. Best fun in a long time. Hardy beasts too, the first one was subjected to a phone photo and a weigh-in. After hair and make-up and finally getting a (poor) shot one handed as he spun around then hunting out the scales and weighing, he shot away 8)

Thanks Ronan for the mark info

the blue pool on your own - your braver than me

its great to hear all these triggers showing down that way

some good fishin..

triggerfish are supposed to taste very nice, wrasse are nice grilled.. cannot say how much i like garfish :D

the blue pool on your own - your braver than me

its great to hear all these triggers showing down that way

Near the Blue pool, in the little bay near by (north).....I could see the ledges @ the pool in the distance and it looked like standing room only. Blue pool on my tod......not me!

missed the "near "

:D

Both fish taste good if u know how to prepare them....wrasse can be steam with herbs......trigger have a nice firm flesh like a chicken....the things i dont like bout them is u have to use plier to skin them....

Both fish taste good if u know how to prepare them....wrasse can be steam with herbs......trigger have a nice firm flesh like a chicken....the things i dont like bout them is u have to use plier to skin them....

I heard a great recipie for wrasse: Boil in a pot for 12 hrs with a brick......eat the brick!

That being said there are a few here who like them and I was fishing with an old man who swears they are the tastiest fish in the sea.