Carraroe. Co. Galway, 18th May 2008.

People: Me & saltydog

Duration: 20:00-00:00

Tide: LW @ 5pm-ish

Weather: Good, light breeze

Bait: Frozen macks, sandeels & squid.

Rigs: me: 1-up/1-down. saltydog: 1-up clipped-down (I think)

Results: saltydog: 1 ray, me: 1 doggie & 1 mack.




Report:
After a few message exchanges, myself and saltydog headed out to Carraroe. Even though we knew the tide was against us, the lure of those ray 2 days earlier was too strong to resist.

I got a rattle 10 mins after the first cast – no hook-up though.
A while later while saltydog was standing beside my rod chattin’, his rod got a nice rattle. He scrambled to his rod just in time to save it from heading out to sea. Result: a very nice ray, on sandeel. (Think it was around 46/48cm? saltydog can confirm I’m sure).

A few more knocks on both rods for a while (without hook-ups), then very quiet for a looong time. :twisted:

Retrieving my rig to change bait and a mack grabbed 1 of my hooks. Blank saved and 1st mack of the season. :lol:

That was about it for bites, until what was supposed to have been my last cast resulted in a doggie. Got 1 more cast in, just in case there were more around. :roll:
Nothing doing, so time for home.

Too bad the tide was heading out, but at least no blanks.
Happy days… :lol: :lol:

Oops....date should read 18th May 2008. :oops: :oops:

Oops....date should read 18th May 2008. :oops: :oops:

fixed that for you :wink:



nice fishin lads.. pity i couldn't make it out with you, but herself got tickets for a gig in Roisin Dubh and only told me the day before :roll:

will be out tomorrow though, hope to see a few of those BIG flat fish aka thornie :lol:

Oh yeah... saltydog, you really need to set your drag or one of these days it will become an expensive mistake :shock:

Thanks for fixing the date. Will probably see you out there so. Thinking of heading out myself tomorrow evening. Not quite finished with that mark just yet. :D

Forgot to mention the crabs. They were fairly hungry, and are well fed at this stage. One of 'em even made off with one of my hooks :shock:

Another cracking spot this west coast fishing isn't so bad after all :-) just for the record the ray was 51cm which is a pb had the drag set after Killary but balanced off centre which I won't be doing again there was still a good depth of water for lowtide & I'd say we wouldve picked up another few had we stayed on. All in all a good result for low water thanks mgal1761 for the lift and the fishing round 2 tomorrow!!

Another cracking spot this west coast fishing isn't so bad after all :-) just for the record the ray was 51cm which is a pb had the drag set after Killary but balanced off centre which I won't be doing again there was still a good depth of water for lowtide & I'd say we wouldve picked up another few had we stayed on. All in all a good result for low water thanks mgal1761 for the lift and the fishing round 2 tomorrow!!

Forgot to mention the crabs. They were fairly hungry, and are well fed at this stage. One of 'em even made off with one of my hooks :shock:

i knew there was something i was supposed to get in town.. HOOKS, bleedin crabs have been absconding with a fair few of my hooks lately too :?