dingle peninsular sat 24-05-08

after a 0600 wake up call from john, and a weather/wind check slea head was decided as the venue for today
after a monster walk over the hill we finally got to the mark (far left of the picture below)
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the "small" island at the far left of the picture can be put into context in the pictures below
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the picture below shows the start of the walk back
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we set up two rods each, one for wrasse baited with crab, and a spinning rod with pearl sidewinders for pollock.
then waited, initially things didn't look too great but then the bites started coming
jonty with the first pollock of the day
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then another
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i had started to despair, but my pollock soon came
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the pollock once they started feeding were prolific,
then we turned our attentions to the wrasse
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a brilliant days fishing, in fact the best!

a big thanks to jonty for showing me a top mark that he found through pure legwork,,,,cheers mate

Well done lads, great fishing and spectacular pics :wink:

great report, hell of a walk but it looks as though it was worth it

Superb, would be back tomorrow. Looking at renting a cottage at Brandon next year; money tied up this year in the house ......... oh and another blast of a weekend in Benidorm :shock:

Great pics. The pics alone tell a great report!
Nice variety on species. The wrasse and thornies look like a good size.
Did ye get a weight/size measure on 'em?

Well done, on what looks like a great session.

Great report, the pics are awesome.

Just a quick question, the 2nd wrasse down(the one with the blue flecks all over it), is that a ballan?

The reason I ask, I've fished a rock mark this evening and caught 9 wrasse, all very differently coloured, I could idenfity most of them as Ballan's, but 3 of them had very bluey type spots all over them?!

Thanks in advance

ye they were all ballans m8ty :D :D :D :D :D

what a back-drop fella. I would love to fish there. Amazing Photos and Report.

Great pics and fishing sounds excellent. I will be down in a couple of weeks so hope it holds up. Pretty sure thats Dunmore head you were fishing.

great pics and well done lads :D

well done lads good fishing, tis dunmore head by the way. slea is further back towards dingle

yep my fault lads, i told him to put slea head as i wasnt a 100% it was dunmore head

Great report the leg work was definately worth it.